Spaces to Fail in

Negotiating Gender, Community and Technology in Algorave

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ID4857744
AuthorsJoanne Armitage (0000-0002-5533-197X, University of Leeds, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume10
Issue1
Pages31-45
Publication date2018-11-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDancecult (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1947-5403 • E-ISSN: 1947-5403
PublisherMaynooth University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12801/1947-5403.2018.10.01.02
OpenAlexW2902424517
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

Algorave presents itself as a community that is open and accessible to all, yet historically, there has been a lack of diversity on both the stage and dance floor. Through womenonly workshops, mentoring and other efforts at widening participation, the number of women performing at algorave events has increased. Grounded in existing research in feminist technology studies, computing education and gender and electronic music, this article unpacks how techno, social and cultural structures have gendered algorave. These ideas will be elucidated through a series of interviews with women participating in the algorave community, to centrally argue that gender significantly impacts an individual's ability to engage and interact within the algorave community. I will also consider how live coding, as an embodied techno-social form, is represented at events and hypothesise as to how it could grow further as an inclusive and feminist practice

Business · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Literacy, Media, and Education

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