id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt kcoyle-blogspot-com-4212 Coyle's InFormation: Phil Agre and the gendered Internet .html text/html 1930 392 84 Coyle's InFormation: Phil Agre and the gendered Internet But my talk also gave Agre thoughts about the missing humanity on the Web. I had a couple of primary concerns, perhaps not perfectly laid out, in my talk, "Access, not Just Wires." I was concerned about what was driving the development of the Internet and the lack of a service ethos regarding society. Like many or most people, Agre heard "libraries" and thought "female." But at least this caused him to think, earlier than many, about how our metaphors for the Internet were inherently gendered. It hurts now to read through Agre's post arguing for a more library-like online information system because it is pretty clear that we blew through that possibility even before the 1994 meeting and were already taking the first steps toward to where we are today. In https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/tno/april-1994.html#networking Phil's comments on the perpetuation of democracy through education strike deep. ./cache/kcoyle-blogspot-com-4212.html ./txt/kcoyle-blogspot-com-4212.txt