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As our bulletin board system is being developed, we invite you to fill out the email survey below. Please send us your thoughts and responses to the questions below.

You may answer as many questions as you choose. We will post the results of this survey in the coming weeks.

Please note that all names and email addresses will be kept in the strictest of confidence and will be used only to contact you in regards to this project.

   
» QUESTIONS 

 
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1.) Is Oxygen contributing to gender equity and democratization of new media technologies?
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2.) Is it possible for commercial institutions to participate in democratizing practices?
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3.) Does Oxygen offer new models of interactivity and technology usability?
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4.) Is Oxygen producing innovative convergent media formats and content?
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5.) Given the financial success of Oxygen's top executives and their liberal feminist values, does Oxygen represent a new kind of corporate feminism?
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6.) And given its regular scheduling of girls' programming, does Oxygen offer a model for inter-generational feminism?
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7.) Does Oxygen actually "superserve" women?
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8.) Can this American network speak to the needs of an international community of women?
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9.) Would the globalization of Oxygen result in further Western cultural imperialism and reinforce the hegemony of Western liberal feminism?
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10.) Might the globalization of Oxygen present possibilities for transnational feminist practice organized around the use of media technologies?
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11.) Can we design critical methods that will enable us to keep up with the speed of capital?
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12.) How can humanities scholars help to shape or intervene in emerging technologies and media?
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    13.) How does Oxygen use an existing popular technology (television) to encourage and increase access to a new technology (computers/Internet)?
     
    14.) How is the network re-inventing what we know as "television" and "computer" technologies?
 
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