# Fembot Collective > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fembot_Collective > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fembot_Collective.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fembot_Collective > Source revision: 1350460852 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Feminist collective}} {{Infobox organization | name = Fembot Collective | native_name = | native_name_lang = | named_after = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | logo = Fembot Banner.png | logo_size = 250px | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map2 = | map2_size = | map2_alt = | map2_caption = | abbreviation = | predecessor = | merged_into = | successor = | formation = 2011 | founder = [Carol Stabile](/source/Carol_Stabile) | founding_location = [University of Oregon](/source/University_of_Oregon) | extinction = | merger = | type = | tax_id = | registration_id = | status = | purpose = | headquarters = | location = | coordinates = | region_served = | services = | products = | methods = | fields = | membership = | num_members_year = | language = | owner = | secretary_general = | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | leader_title3 = | leader_name3 = | leader_title4 = | leader_name4 = | board_of_directors = | key_people = | main_organ = ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology'' | parent_organization = | subsidiaries = | secessions = | affiliations = | budget = | budget_year = | revenue = | revenue_year = | disbursements = | expenses = | expenses_year = | endowment = | num_staff = | num_staff_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | slogan = | mission = | website = {{URL|fembotcollective.org/}} | remarks = | former_name = | footnotes = }} 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''.{{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}} Fembot has been a catalyst for multiple large scale feminist digital projects, providing the digital and social infrastructure for [FemTechNet](/source/FemTechNet),{{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}}{{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}} publishing the podcast series Books Aren't Dead,{{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/}} and hosting collaborative [hack-a-thon](/source/hack-a-thon)s and [Wikipedia](/source/Wikipedia) [edit-a-thon](/source/edit-a-thon)s with ''[Ms.](/source/Ms._(magazine))'' magazine.{{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}} Although having been funded and supported by multiple institutions including [School of Journalism and Communication](/source/University_of_Oregon_School_of_Journalism_and_Communication) and the [Center for the Study of Women in Society](/source/Center_for_the_Study_of_Women_in_Society) at the [University of Oregon](/source/University_of_Oregon).,{{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}} 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](/source/Carol_Stabile) located in the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Officially founded in 2011, the group grew out of conversations about the use of [feminist ethics](/source/feminist_ethics) to guide transformations in [open access](/source/open_access) and [new media](/source/new_media) pedagogy that began as early as 2008. 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.{{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}} Fembot launched its first issue of ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology'' in November 2012.{{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 }} 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.{{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}}{{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}} 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.{{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}} It has been housed at [UO Libraries](/source/Knight_Library) and now is administered through the University of Maryland. Notably, the journal challenges conventional academic journal practices by using an open peer review process.{{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}} In 2014, [Gamergate](/source/Gamergate_controversy) 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."{{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}} 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.{{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}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} Category:Feminist journals Category:Media studies journals Category:English-language journals --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fembot Collective](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fembot_Collective) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fembot_Collective?action=history)). 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