Electronic Communications and Feminist Activism: The Experience of PAR-L

Authors

  • Michele Ollivier Harvard University
  • Wendy Robbins University of New Brunswick

Keywords:

Communication technologies, Electronic communications, E-mail

Abstract

Do the new communications technologies, on balance, promote key feminist principles - such as democratic self-governance, equal access to resources, and women's equality - or do they have the opposite effect - creating new barriers and reinforcing inequalities? This study investigates the potential and limitations of electronic communications for social change by analyzing the experience of PAR-L, the first e-mail discussion list set up to encourage the development and dissemination of policy-oriented research and action on feminist issues in Canada.

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Published

1999-10-01

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (1999)

Section

Original Research

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