Feminist Systems Theory: Learning by Praxis

Feminist Art Game Praxis

This paper explores multiple approaches to building an art game project created from a feminist perspective. Funded by a research grant, this can be seen as an experimental praxis that plays with connecting metaphors invoked in feminist theory to playable media. This connection is figurative not literal and manifests throughout the development process: in conception (artistic intent), productio...

Computational Machine Learning in Theory and Praxis

In the last few decades a computational approach to machine learning has emerged based on paradigms from recursion theory and the theory of computation. Such ideas include learning in the limit, learning by enumeration, and probably approximately correct (pac) learning. These models usually are not suitable in practical situations. In contrast, statistics based inference methods have enjoyed a ...

Feminist Sociological Theory

Praxis Critical Systems

With conventional methods of performing verification and validation heavily reliant on testing performed late in the software production process the late detection of errors adds substantially to project costs and delays in delivery, and introduces significant risks. This paper presents a method of software development aimed at "correctness by construction", which greatly attenuates these probl...

Feminist Theory and Survey Research

Over the past three decades, feminist methodologists have hammered home one point with surprising regularity: Feminist research takes a variety of legitimate forms; there is no “distinctive feminist method of research” (Harding, 1987; see also Chafetz, 2004a, 2004b; Fonow & Cook, 2005; Hawkesworth, 2006; Hesse-Biber, 2007; Risman, Sprague, & Howard, 1993; and Sprague, 2005). And yet, to this da...