Selected Writings/Talks

Hear Virginia Speak!! "Deeper Than a Digital Divide: Women, Welfare, and the 'High-Tech' Economy," National Women's History Month Talk for the History of Technology and Science Program (HOTS) at Iowa State University (Ames, IA)

“Trapped in the Digital Divide: The Distributive Paradigm in Community Informatics.” The Journal of Community Informatics. July/August 2006.

“Making Sense of Imbrication: Popular Technology and ‘Inside-Out’ Methodologies” (with Nancy D. Campbell). Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2004. Toronto, ON: 65-73, 2004.

“Cyberfeminism Meets NAFTAzteca: Recoding the Technotext,” in Appropriating Technologies, Ron Eglash (editor), Minneapolois: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

“Hacking Barbie” and “Paradigms and Perversions: A Woman’s Place in Cyberspace,” in Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, Dawn Keetley and John Pettergrew (editors), Madison, WI: Madison House, 2000.

“Biofunk.” Salon Magazine. August 4, 1999. http://archive.salon.com/books/it/1999/08/04/biofunk/

Popular Technology: Citizenship and Inequality in the Information Economy (Dissertation, 2004)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction - The Silicon Valley of the 19th Century
Chapter 1 - Deeper Than a Digital Divide: The Distributive Paradigm in Information Technology Policy
Chapter 2 - Complex Inequality in Troy, NY
Chapter 3 - "Life, For Real: Money, Sex, and Power" in the Information Economy
Chapter 4 - "I Could Be A Software Queen": Information Technology as a Site for Political Learning
Chapter 5 - Popular Technology Education: Foundations and Methods
Chapter 6 - Together (with the Computer): Participatory Science and Technology Studies
Chapter 7 - Active Citizenship and Action Research: Women at the YWCA Making Social Movements
Conclusion - The 'W' Makes the Difference: Critical Technological Citizenship as if Low-Income Women Mattered
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