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Journal

2016 | 3 | 4 | 33-53

Article title

"Wikigender" and "Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation": Digital genres countering inequality and discrimination

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Title variants

PL
Wikigender i Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation: cyfrowe gatunki w przeciwdziałaniu nierówności i dyskryminacji

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Abstracts

EN
Launched on ‘International Women’s Day’ on 7 March 2008, Wikigender is a project created by the OECD Development Centre that aims to facilitate the exchange and improvement of knowledge on gender-related issues around the world. Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation was an event hosted on 17 April 2014 by the Clinton Foundation ‘No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project’, was designed to foster and advance progress for women and girls worldwide. The two projects are investigated here as new types of communication on the World Wide Web. The analysis tries to ascertain whether and to what extent the generic features and discursive strategies of the two new collaborative platforms contribute to the co-construction of information, the dissemination of knowledge and awareness, and the development of a participatory agenda (Jones 2008; Campagna, Garzone, Ilie and Rowley-Jolivet 2012) on themes related to gender as well as resistance to inequality and otherness. An examination of these two examples of on-line communication will entail a scrutiny of new digital genres (Yates, Orlikowski and Renneker 1997), of the genre-specific features of web communication (Gruber 2008), and of the democratizing impetus embedded in their discourse. Promoting the exchange and creation of information and increasing citizens’ access to it enables readers to simultaneously become users, writers and critics; it seems to be the new trend of new web-mediated forms of communication that is resulting in the ‘democratization’ (Fairclough 1992; 1995a; 1995b; 1998) of several types of discourse.
PL
Wikigender to portal uruchomiony przez Organizację Współpracy Gospodarczej i Rozwoju (OECD Development Centre) 07.03.2008 r., którego celem jest gromadzenie i wymiana wiedzy z całego świata dotyczącej spraw związanych z gender. Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation z kolei to wydarzenie, które 14.04.2014 r. zorganizowała Fundacja Clintona w ramach swojej większej inicjatywy „No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project”, której misją jest wsparcie rozwoju oraz partycypacji dziewcząt i kobiet na świecie. Oba przykłady, uznane za nowe typy komunikacji w sieci, poddane zostały analizie. Jej celem było ustalenie, czy i w jakim zakresie cechy gatunkowe i strategie dyskursywne tych dwóch platform współpracy online przyczyniają się do: współtworzenia informacji, szerzenia wiedzy i świadomości oraz umacniania agendy partycypacji (ang. participatory agenda) (Jones 2008; Campagna, Garzone, Ilie, Rowley-Jolivet 2012), zarówno jeśli chodzi o tematykę gender, inności, jak i sprzeciwu wobec nierównościom. W analizie skupiono się na kwestiach gatunków cyfrowych (Yates, Orlikowski, Renneker 1997), gatunkowych cech komunikacji w sieci (Gruber 2008) oraz zawartych w analizowanym dyskursie bodźcach sprzyjających procesowi demokratyzacji. Upowszechnianie wymiany i współtworzenia informacji oraz udostępnianie jej obywatelom umożliwia czytelnikom takich online'owych platform wcielenie się jednocześnie w rolę użytkowników, współtwórców i krytyków, co można zakwalifikować jako nowy trend w zapośredniczonej przez sieć komunikacji, którego efektem jest „demokratyzacja” (Fairclough 1992; 1995a; 1995b; 1998) dyskursów.

Journal

Year

Volume

3

Issue

4

Pages

33-53

Physical description

Dates

published
2016

Contributors

  • University of Cagliari

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Publication order reference

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