Updated Wikipedia Edit

Since I was having such a hard time creating a page for Lynn Randolph, I decided to go a different  route by adding Randolph to an existing page, Donna Haraway. In a couple of weeks, if it has not been removed, I will try to create a page for Lynn Randolph by the link on Haraway's page.
This is what I recently added to Haraway's page:  Haraway participated in a collaborative exchange with the eminent feminist theorist Lynn Randolph from 1990 to 1996. Their engagement with specific ideas relating to feminism, technoscience, political consciousness, and other social issues, formed the images and narrative of Haraway's book. ^[4] 

Wiki - Asian American Studies

Wikipedia username: jujuw (Juliana "Juju" Wong)

Hi Classmates!

I apologize for this post being a bit delayed, but it was because I was waiting to see if any flags or significant changes were going to be implemented on my post (which haven't happened yet). I chose to edit the "Asian American Studies" page because I wanted to choose a topic that I was interesting and relevant to my life, and this happened to pop up in my head. A lot of student activism work is being done by student leaders on the UCSD campus to establish an Asian American Studies minor on our campus. Our undergraduate student population is made up of approximately 50% Asian/American students, but we do not have a resource center or curriculum that educates students about the historical experiences, cultural politics, and social movements that have affected half of the student population. Within the Ethnic Studies department, there are only a few classes that address Asian American issues and there is a push to expand the availability of those courses and to recruit faculty to teach them.

For my entry, I decided to add more specific key concepts that topics that Asian American Studies overall addresses because the previous entry was very brief. I decided to keep my information general first, because I had to remember that not everybody who reads the article would have taken a Sociology or Ethnic Studies course. Here is what I added:

More general information about Asian American Studies.

Specific topics that the UCLA AAS department focuses on.

Prior to my entry, there were no citations at all for this Wikipedia entry. With my additions, I added a scholarly journal article and a link to the UCLA Asian American Studies Department website. Nothing has really happened yet for my entry, in terms of any conflicts or flags by others, so I'm just waiting to see if any activity will happen. In the meantime, I hope to add more information to the page, and see if anything will happen if I bring up more sensitive or critical issues about the topic. I'm glad I finally chose this topic because this really resonates with "the political is the personal" theme in our class, and it's an issue that is currently being debated and taking action upon on the UCSD campus, which affects the stories and experiences of many students, including myself.

People of color in European art history

Hi everyone,

I recently ran into this blog that made me think of the "recovered histories" bit of the Feminism 101 slide. Though this is more focused on people of color in general rather than just women, I thought it was really interesting and I wanted to share. I think the blog is all run by just one person, but they do a great job highlighting just how much the presence of POCs in European history has been erased. I personally always had the impression that there were very few POCs in Europe before the 1800s or so for some reason, but it turns out that many were actually portrayed in many works of art. I think we all know at this point that POCs and women are often erased from history, but it's sort of jarring to think that art history might also have a role in that. The blog runner also engages in a lot of interesting discussion on their tumblr.

Here is the link:
http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/

If you'd like to see just the artwork:
http://medievalpoc.org/

Time's 100 most influential people issue

41 women 59 men
 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-beyonce-time-100-most-influential-20140424,0,1383902.story?track=rss#axzz2zsKknHYt

Gender Discrimination on Wikipedia

I had taken a 100 series class with Professor Cartwright a few quarters ago, and recall us listen to a guest speaker. She was an avid editor on Wikipedia and discussed to the class how she began editing with a pseudonym that did not reveal her gender; however, once her name was revealed, she began being more harshly critiqued for her work. When we were given this Wikipedia assignment in Comm 146, I remembered that previous discussion and wanted to hopefully write about that issue on a wiki page.

At first, I had trouble deciding which article would fit best with this topic. The articles on pseudonym, systemic bias, discrimination, and glass ceiling were the four articles I was deciding on. I decided to edit the "Discrimination" page because it had a section on sexual discrimination, and had touched a bit on work related gender conflicts.

Before:

During: After completing my paragraph, I realized that I had missed a citation, and had cited my sources in an incorrect format. 

After:

Username: an108

Before hearing the guest speaker, and learning about feminist IT, I was not aware of the issues that women face in online workplace settings. I assumed that Wikipedia had a fairly equal representation of all sexes and genders. However, by doing my own research and editing this article, I was able to see gender stereotypes (i.e. the broom when I did my citation incorrectly) and bias that works amonst Wikipedia. 

Wiki

For the Wiki Project, I tried to look at the different projects that are available that I can be a part of. I thought it was really hard because when I open the page I was like...omg html. Although I have dealt with html before, it is different when looking at a blank page and starting it yourself rather than actually looking at someone else that already started on it and try fixing that. I looked at Vietnamese articles that needed to be edited but there wasn't any.

I find it the more up to date or relevant subjects has more details or information, while things that aren't are not. Which makes total sense because of course, they would want to update the article more. First priority while the others are back burners. I was looking up Vietnamese Pop (V-Pop and I notice some of the entertainment, although  I believe are very well known does not have links to their own wiki page. Realizing that although it might be popular in my culture/perspective, in the more general media, it might not be. So instead, I decided to edit some of the page just grammar wise.

It is amazing how before anybody can edit Wikipedia and at anytime. Now there are lots of rules and restrictions and even when you post it up, it might get taken down right away. I think it is a good idea because than then information is more legitimatized but, it is also bad because some information might not make it to the page because it is viewed as not important, relevant, or truthful right away without more investigations.

"The Voices of Women in the Super Smash Brothers Community"

On Tuesday we discuss the idea of femininity and also the virtual world, especially regarding video games. Although I myself was never really a gamer I have friends that do. Some are very into it but, very rarely do you find female as extreme gamers, competitively. Is it because it is a "men's" sport or is it just because we are under represented? Especially because a lot of time women are hiding their true identity because of the remarks that they often get in the virtual world.

This was an article a friend of my posted on the different statistic that women has to face just in the game  Super Smash Brothers alone. Although things are changing and more female are getting involved in the gaming community, the issues is still prominent. Like a lot of the quotes on the data, the virtual world is a way that, like in the olden days when women use a pseudo name in order to get their works publish, a lot of female gamers hide their identities to be well respected. I wonder, whenever you play games online or anywhere have you heard the phrase, "Oh I was going easy on you because you were a girl," after you won a game? Why can't we win because we are actually good?

Another thing about the virtual world in gaming is sex still sell. A friend of mine who plays League of Legends showed me a space where people can watch other people play the game. A lot of time, girls allowed this to happen so that they can gain points or prizes to help them in the game itself. For me, I find it uncomfortable if people watch me play in person let alone online. Who know what they are doing. These women is using there sexuality, or looks, to gain power in the game. Yet, are these women using their sexuality to gain control and power for themselves and for women or are we going backwards again, exploiting ourselves even more by doing so? A questions often ask when dealing with femininity and ways that women use it.