<videovortex> videovortex Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

[Valentin Spirik]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <videovortex-request at listcultures.org>wrote:

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> == The Questions ==
>
>
> What I'd like to find out now is whether there is any research,
> articles, projects dealing with
>
> - is this just a German phenomnon or similar in other countries?
>
> - why are so few women considered relevant or important bloggers?
>
> - what creates relevance/attention/importance in the web 2.0?
>
> - how does it happen that the much praised open structures of the
> current digital world seem to create even more exclusive (virtual)
> realities?
>
>
My (non) scientific answer is that it seems web 2.0 is (also) simply
mirroring structures in our society that is to a certain extend (still) male
dominated.

I always wondered why there are almost no well know women film makers.
Simply ask anyone what female film maker they like in particular...! Those
women who made it (through a male dominated industry) of course had to be
exceptional. The first two names that come to my mind are Leni Riefenstahl
(controversial of course but basically she created and perfected a modern
advertising look long before others did it - handsome people/bodies in a
very stylised environment) and the other one is Kathryn Bigelow, a real
master of action/suspense/drama (e.g. The Hurt Locker, 2008).

I'm sure there are as many talented women film makers as there are male
ones, but maybe women just don't fell the need to show off their egos as
much as men often do...? While men can't have babies they can produce
art/movies etc. that "live on". (Artists, writers etc. often talk about
their "baby" = latest work.) I think that's a point in this not to be
underestimated...

Of course I'd love to see more women film makers, vloggers, bloggers etc!


> I'm not active in adademia (anymore) and not even regularly reading or
> writing on feminist issues. Same for all the different strands of net
> culture(s), media politics and the like. And so it's perfectly likely
> that I missed obvious things said on these subjects. Please let me know
> of anything you know!
>
>
>
> Thanks for any kind of help and feel free to forward this wherever you
> think is appropriate!
>
>
> Anne
>
>
> http://annalist.noblogs.org
> mostly in German
>
> http://www.twitter.com/annnalist (German)
> http://www.twitter.com/Anne_Roth (English)
>
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