SITES ABOUT THE INTERNET
AND TECHNOTIPS
This section contains links to sites which provide direction
about how to search the internet, evaluate websites, and how
to reference internet material.
Womenspace (www.womenspace.ca)
is a place where women activists share stories of our adventures
in cyberspace and explore how the Internet is being used as
a powerful tool for women. Articles are posted by contributors
about a wide range of subjects: access to the net for women,
how to use it effectively, encountering pornography on the
net, activism on-line, and much much much more! The site has
a Women's Internet Course (http://womenspace.ca/Campaign/WomensInternetCourse/intro.html)
to start you out.
Cybergrrl (www.cis.vt.edu/ws/wsmodules/cybergrrrl.html)
has loads of information in the form of tutorials and info
sheets on what the internet is and how to use it effectively.
Resource Discovery Network Virtual Training Suite
(www.vts.rdn.ac.uk)
is a UK based site with tutorials on internet research in
dozens of academic fields - including women's studies. Scroll
down and click on Women's Studies.
The Center for Women in Information Technology
(www.umbc.edu/cwit)
is a US based organization provides information, research
links, books and more on the subject of women and information
technology. With the mandate of increasing women's activity
in the creation and effective use of information technology,
especially the Internet, CWIT maintains a traveling speakers'
series, scholars' programme and an extensive website detailing
the work of the organization. Their Frequently Asked Questions
(www.umbc.edu/cwit/cwitfaq.html)
page is very helpful if you're just getting started using
the Internet.
Bare Bones (www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html)
is a basic tutorial on searching the web.
Women Halting Abuse Online (www.haltabuse.org)
offers information on how to identify harassing email (as
opposed to spam), threatening approaches in chat rooms and
other forms of harassment online that may escalate to actual
contact from an abuser. The volunteers working for this organization
attempt to help people solve problems of harassment. You may
also find the following helpful: Social and Technical Means
for Fighting On-Line Harassment (www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Gender/glc),
an article by Ellen Spertus from MIT about the nature of online
harassment (1996).
Please note that York University does not tolerate online
harassment. Complaints of computer abuse or harassment should
be brought up with your professor and possibly directed to:
abuse@yorku.ca
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