TY - JOUR
T1 - An Intersectional Technofeminist Framework for Community-Driven Technology Innovation
AU - Shivers-McNair, Ann
AU - Gonzales, Laura
AU - Zhyvotovska, Tetyana
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge that we were incredibly fortunate to have buy-in from both our respective institutions and from many local organizations who contributed to the success of the symposium by donating financial resources, time, and facilities. For example, the hotel lodging for participants was sponsored by a university that provided a $10,000 grant. The local art museum donated the space and facilities for the duration of the symposium, an estimated $8,000 donation in terms of space, equipment, and personnel. Local chefs provided the food for all attendees at a discounted price, and a local shop donated tea for all attendees to enjoy. These contributions were central to the success of the symposium. At the same time, however, contributions from various stakeholders with different interests and priorities also led to some unexpected discrepancies.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - In this article, we describe the philosophy, objectives, and development of Multilingual User-Experience (Multilingual UX), a community-driven initiative for supporting technology innovation with marginalized communities. We highlight how community-based mentorship can guide innovative technology design through an intersectional technofeminist perspective. We begin with a discussion of the impetus for building this initiative before discussing how we are collaboratively designing a research center to facilitate technology design with and for marginalized communities. We both theorize and enact the intersectional technofeminist principles of our work by telling the story of our project with our collaborators and community partners, in the form of vignettes from a symposium. We conclude by looking ahead to our next steps and by offering strategies for intersectional technofeminist community building and technology innovation, in the hope that our experiences can be further developed and localized to support similar initiatives that highlight the value of feminist collaboration in technology design.
AB - In this article, we describe the philosophy, objectives, and development of Multilingual User-Experience (Multilingual UX), a community-driven initiative for supporting technology innovation with marginalized communities. We highlight how community-based mentorship can guide innovative technology design through an intersectional technofeminist perspective. We begin with a discussion of the impetus for building this initiative before discussing how we are collaboratively designing a research center to facilitate technology design with and for marginalized communities. We both theorize and enact the intersectional technofeminist principles of our work by telling the story of our project with our collaborators and community partners, in the form of vignettes from a symposium. We conclude by looking ahead to our next steps and by offering strategies for intersectional technofeminist community building and technology innovation, in the hope that our experiences can be further developed and localized to support similar initiatives that highlight the value of feminist collaboration in technology design.
KW - collaboration
KW - community building
KW - intersectional technofeminism
KW - multilingual user experience
KW - technology design
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compcom.2018.11.005
DO - 10.1016/j.compcom.2018.11.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058224265
SN - 8755-4615
VL - 51
SP - 43
EP - 54
JO - Computers and Composition
JF - Computers and Composition
ER -