Looking in the Mirror event a great success

A great turnout on Sept. 30, 2016 to this fascinating talk on girls' privacy and equality on social media by Val Steeves and Jane Bailey, UOttawa. 40 participants enjoyed a lively presentation and good discussion.

We are interested in the directions in which these scholars are moving with this project-- emphasizing eQuality.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How Caitlyn Jenner is like an emotionally reckless mommy blogger

Image
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKJjKkGzggJFXNl4bQwK3w6agDpGvqzpTGfXU4WD832GkcAKa2rCN0iuRQ6XUuFKXQknXLnbEBzQvd4SwOPrvphRWCeRRQS3M48GMB4rYP-oSD6bXUGqmlpJc9Ke-tsIDHtWB5ur-l8LuN/s1600/care+less.jpg Careless people are dangerous and immature.  Check Gatsby. The villains in this American tragedy are reckless with other people's emotions. The same is being said of Caitlyn Jenner of the publication of her The Secrets of My Life .  One reviewer calls her "emotionally careless with the women in her life" in "How Caitlyn Jenner Betrays Her Family in Her New Memoir The Secrets of My Life". There may be some lessons to be learned for mommy bloggers who want to talk about their families, especially when their children are moving into adulthood. How does the nature of a family blog change by the very definition of aging and maturing children within the family? Let's speculate a bit about possible areas related to family for bloggers to...
Read more

What have we learned about blogging, Facebook, and Cambridge Analytica

Image
Concerns have been raised this past week by experts  about the amount of information being collected and dispersed by a few giant internet companies  after widespread reports  that U. K. - based Cambridge Analytica used data from more than 50 million Facebook accounts to influence the 2016 USA presidential election.   Folks are also starting to wonder how secure their personal information is on social media networks. News reports  claim that it increasingly depends on where people live and access the web on the planet. Keeping ones privacy online is no longer - and may never have been -  easy, if at all possible.  While there are articles that provide users with advice and guidelines on how to use the internet in ways that protect the personal privacy of users , many people still give away personal information about themselves and often about their children through their blogs and online posts.  At this time of being se...
Read more

Is there another human role that requires complete metamorphosis?

Image
The challenge of being a mother of older children is huge. It makes me mad to contemplate all the mocking media portraits of mom–interfering mothers-in-law, mothers who phone to pester–people to be avoided, so that their phone messages are ignored or they are asked to cut short a visit, presumably as payback for their annoying ways. Younger people must make these movies, I guess. And I guess they find their moms cloying. hard to dodge, guilty of being repetitive, lost in the past and imposing unreasonably high expectations. To lose mom is to grow up. Yet, I know lots of nice and sensitive moms of older children. They love their kids and willingly let them go on to live lives; they try to find constructive ways to fit in and stay part of lives that grow forward and away. What a painful process. Of course, it’s natural and the point must be to learn grace in acceptance. But it’s not simply funny that the very person you were charged with helping and watching becomes the person you mus...
Read more