What I learned from Women's Contributions

After seeing my classmate's presentations on the Women's Contributions assignment, I felt like I was able to learn a lot more about other women's work on the web, and the kind of contributions they made to the web. I think that often, women's work on the web is not recgonized as much as men's work and contribution on the web, so I think this assignment helped me learn the kind of work other women have done to the web and social media.

I particularily liked Stef's presentation on Beth Kanter, and learning about the work and contribution she made. I learned that Beth was very big into activism, which is a very important part in femism and is required to changing the way the world's visualization is about women on the web. I liked her views on using social media as a way for positive activism in women's roles and women's issues, and i thought it was interesting to know she has been known as one of the most influential women in technology. I think this is a very positive idea because it can help contribute to the way we see women's work on the web and how their hard work should be recgonized because of the every day growing use of the web and social media. Actually, part of my final project will be focusing on the women's contributions to the web, and the visualizations from other people of women's work on the web, so it is very important that we recognize these amazing women and their work and contribution.