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The '''Fembot Collective''' is an international collective of feminist media activists, artists, producers, and scholars that published the academic journal ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology''.<ref name = Bitch>{{cite news|last1=Rhee|first1=Margaret|title=Hacking Feminism|url=http://bitchmagazine.org/post/fembot-collective-profile-tech-and-feminism|accessdate=28 March 2015|work=Bitch Magazine|date=17 March 2015}}</ref> Fembot has been a catalyst for multiple large scale feminist digital projects, providing the digital and social infrastructure for FemTechNet,<ref>{{cite web|title=About the [FemTechNet] DOCC|url=http://cyberhouse.arted.psu.edu/DOCC/contact.html|website=Pennsylvania State University DOCC|accessdate=28 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=LoshFemTechNet>{{cite book|last1=Losh|first1=Elizabeth|title=The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University|date=2014|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0262323260|pages=146–148}}<!--|accessdate=31 March 2015--></ref> publishing the podcast series Books Aren't Dead,<ref name=StabileSawchuk>{{cite journal|last1=Stabile|first1=Carol|last2=Sawchuk|first2=Kim|title=Introduction: Conversations Across the Field|journal=Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology|date=2012|issue=1|doi=10.7264/N3RN35SV|doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |url=http://adanewmedia.org/2012/11/issue1-stabile/}}</ref> and hosting collaborative hack-a-thons and Wikipedia edit-a-thons with ''Ms.'' magazine.<ref name=Ms.>{{cite news|last1=Rhee|first1=Margaret|title=Gender-Balancing Wikipedia, One Article at a Time|url=http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/03/13/gender-balacing-wikipedia-one-article-at-a-time/|accessdate=28 March 2015|agency=Ms. Magazine|date=13 March 2015}}</ref> Although having been funded and supported by multiple institutions including School of Journalism and Communication and the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon.,<ref>{{cite web|title=Fembot Conference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory Feminism|url=http://csws.uoregon.edu/fembot-unconference-multiplying-standpoints-and-participatory-feminism/|website=Center for the Study of Women in Society|publisher=University of Oregon|accessdate=28 March 2015|date=April 2013}}</ref> Fembot is concentrated in the University of Maryland currently.
==History== The Fembot Collective was initially developed at the University of Oregon, where it was originally a research interest group led by Carol Stabile located in the Center for the Study of Women in Society.<ref name=StabileSawchuk /> Officially founded in 2011, the group grew out of conversations about the use of feminist ethics to guide transformations in open access and new media pedagogy that began as early as 2008.<ref name=Bitch /> Early projects for Fembot included the short zine series ''Laundry Day'' edited by Carol Stabile and Chelsea Bullock, and a feminist works series that spotlighted new media artists and critics.<ref name=StockingsCrush>{{cite web|last1=Ekpo|first1=Patricia|title=Currently Crushing On: Fembot Collective|url=http://bluestockingsmag.com/2013/03/22/currently-crushing-on-fembot-collective/|work=Blue Stockings Magazine|date=2013-03-22}}</ref> Fembot launched its first issue of ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology'' in November 2012.<ref name=NovLaunchSOJC>{{cite web|publisher=University of Oregon School of Journalism & Communication |title=Research Newsletter |url=http://journalism.uoregon.edu/research-newsletter/11-0/ |accessdate=31 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920221752/http://journalism.uoregon.edu/research-newsletter/11-0/ |archivedate=20 September 2014 }}</ref> thumbnail|Ms. FemBot edit-a-thon in Los Angeles in 2015 Since 2015, Fembot has established a partnership with ''Ms.'' magazine around writing women academics, theorists, and athletes into Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rhee|first1=Margaret|title=Hacking Feminism|url=https://bitchmedia.org/post/fembot-collective-profile-tech-and-feminism|accessdate=11 March 2016|work=Bitch Magazine|date=17 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Adamovic|first1=Lea|title=Fembot Initiative to again join Wikipedia Edit-a-thon|url=https://around.uoregon.edu/content/fembot-initiative-again-join-wikipedia-edit-thon|work=Around the O|accessdate=11 March 2016|date=2016-03-08}}</ref> The organization is currently led by Carol Stabile.
==''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology''== ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology'' is a feminist open access journal published in collaboration with the Fembot Collective.<ref>{{cite web|last1=JOURNAL-TOC|title=Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology|url=http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php?action=search&subAction=hits&journalID=27454&userQueryID=14401&high=1&ps=30&page=1&items=0&journal_filter=0&journalby=0|website=JournalTOC|publisher=Heriott-Watt University|accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref> It has been housed at UO Libraries and now is administered through the University of Maryland. Notably, the journal challenges conventional academic journal practices by using an open peer review process.<ref name=CampusTech>{{cite news|last1=Fredette|first1=Michelle|title=Rewriting the Journal|url=http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/08/28/Rewriting-the-Journal.aspx?Page=1|accessdate=31 March 2015|agency=Campus Technology|issue=Academic Publishing|date=28 August 2012|ref=CampusTech}}</ref>
In 2014, Gamergate supporters targeted ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology'' as a site of "feminist propaganda," arguing that "feminist scholars have used the journal as an outlet for propaganda, allowing them to avoid the peer review processes of traditional journals."<ref name="Inside Higher Ed">{{cite news|last1=Straumsheim|first1=Carl|title=#Gamergate and Games Research|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/11/gamergate-supporters-attack-digital-games-research-association|accessdate=31 March 2015|work=Inside Higher Education|date=11 November 2014}}</ref> In response, Fembot members and others created a bibliography of critical resources for studying the gendered dimensions of the Gamergate controversy, published by the International Communication Association.<ref name=ICA>{{cite news|last1=Chess|first1=Shira|last2=Consalvo|first2=Mia|last3=Huntemann|first3=Nina|last4=Shaw|first4=Adrienne|last5=Stabile|first5=Carol|last6=Strommer-Galley|first6=Jenny|title=GamerGate and Academia|url=http://www.icahdq.org/membersnewsletter/NOV14_ART0009.asp|accessdate=31 March 2015|agency=ICA Newsletter|issue=9|publisher=International Communication Association|date=November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317042811/http://www.icahdq.org/membersnewsletter/NOV14_ART0009.asp|archive-date=17 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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