The Fembot Collective is seeking two UO Graduate Student Interns to collaborate on existing projects and new expansions for 2015-16. We are an open, online publishing group for feminist media studies. Our content comes across a variety of media: podcast, blog posts, academic articles, images, and multimodal art. Our objective for the upcoming year is to harness the energy and creativity of collective members to produce more avenues of feminist media activism through Fembot, as well as vivifying the website to draw in new members and establish Fembot’s presence as a hub for feminist digital experimentation and collaboration.
Please submit CV and maximum one-page proposal on which projects most interest you and/or you feel most qualified for and how you feel you can uniquely contribute to Fembot’s expansion initiatives this year.
Application Deadline: October 12, 2015
Send materials to: Carol Stabile, cstabile@uoregon.edu
Questions/queries: Sarah Hammid, shamid@uoregon.edu
Decisions will be made by October 19, 2015
Graduate Student Interns will be able to work on projects like the following:
Writing the History of Women (and Women’s Athletics) in Universities into Wikipedia
Fembot members Bryce Peake (University of Maryland) and Thomas Oates (University of Iowa) are piloting a Wikipedia project aimed at writing women’s history and women’s athletics programs into the Wikipedia pages for American universities. The project requires coordination of volunteer members, management of communication with participating institutions, as well as working with the Fembot design team from the Digital Scholarship Center to incorporate and update information on the website.
Books Aren’t Dead < http://fembotcollective.org/blog/category/bad/>
Fembot member Hye-Jin Lee has maintained this project up until this point and will need assistance this upcoming year to keep up with the correspondence and organization BAD demands. A graduate student who could assist Lee with the work of contacting presses and authors, setting up reviewers and interviewers, helping to troubleshoot some of the technological issues would go a long way toward ensuring that BAD can remain alive.
The Fembot Troll Corps (a feature of the Fembot Toolkit)
Fembot member Amanda Phillips (UC Davis) has proposed a Fembot Troll Corps as a strategy for combating online harassment. Having a graduate student volunteer provide some of the logistical support for the Fembot Troll Corps and for expanding the Fembot Toolkit would help get these projects off the ground.
The Fembot Toolkit < http://fembotcollective.org/blog/tag/fembot-toolkit/>
During 2015-16, Stabile and other Collective members will be generating additional ideas and material for the Fembot Toolkit, including a Fembot Toolkit Cucrriculum. Graduate volunteers can provide support in aggregating resources and incorporating and updating information on the Fembot website.
The FemBib Network
Jennifer Jodell (University of Minnesota), Wafa Ben Hassine, (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Sarah T. Hamid (Fembot Webmistress) have launched an initiative to create a space on Fembot so that graduate students who are members of the Fembot Collective can share grant sample prospectuses, reading lists, core bibliographies, and other materials for professional development. The FemBib Network will also serve as a networking hub for researchers in niche areas of interest seeking to collaborate on research and conference presentations. An additional graduate student volunteer would provide technical support and assistance gathering materials. In addition to any of the above, Graduate Volunteers are welcome to suggest their own projects (see Fembot Labs: http://fembotcollective.org/blog/category/femlab/) or provide assistance in weekly maintenance tasks.
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After decisions are made, we will match graduate students with projects for which they are best suited. Applicants should have some knowledge of promotional strategies for online platforms and content; be able to produce promotional materials using Adobe Creative Suite applications and FinalCut Pro; and have some knowledge of Search Engine Optimization. Additionally, students with an understanding of and commitment to increasing diversity within media production and representation are encouraged to apply.
In exchange for their work with Fembot, Graduate Volunteers will be provided travel, lodging, and per diem for three-night travel to LA for Ms. Fembot 2016 (March 2016).
