The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones

Critical Issues Literacy Technologies: What Stance Should We Take?

“…Information technologies have also been shown to inscribe in various ways relations of gender, class, race, language, nationality, and ability (Selfe & Selfe, 1994), accentuating the "well-trodden battle lines of social conflict" (Foucault, 1972, p. 227). These inscriptions call for a critical theory of technologies, one which at a minimum would begin a process of analyzing the politics of these inscriptions.…”

From Crud to Cream: Imagining a Rich Scholarly Repository Interface

“…Last but not least, it involved the scholarly community that seeks to engage with each other and their work within the prospective CWRC environment in the challenge of the interface itself. This is important, because by and large scholars who research and teach through technologies are no more engaged critically with their political, ideological, and conceptual impacts than when Cynthia and Richard Selfe called for such analysis almost two decades ago, even though our work has become inextricably imbricated with them (Selfe & Selfe, 1994). Active involvement of the research community is fundamental to the design of the CWRC project, and this exercise proved an effective means of initiating the conversation about the interface as a whole, one that seemed more effective in evoking alternative ideas than soliciting responses to a sketch.…”

Feminist Theory and Technical Communication

“…Manuals took on demanding and strict tones and avoided mentioning byproducts that women might produce. Cunningham (2015), Selfe, and Selfe (2004) argue that many technologies still favor males over females, especially in the workplace. These technologies include documentation that categorizes women as technologically incapable.…”