Sky High

I went to see Sky High at the cinima on the 26th October. There is a female technopath

(look in sketch book for more details I dont want to ruin the movie for any one)

keeping up to data

Ok just to keep my self up to date on what im doing.

Iv sent out 11 emails to people (note: check sketch book for email addresses) with questions for my primary research.

I have also got a lode of books out and im working my way though them.

Iv found a lode of papers online and iv printed hard copys of them and im also going to get my computer to read them to me.

Iv had an idea about polostirine heads and iv been out and got two masks to test out what video playing behind there eyes using my mobile phone would look like and its cool.

Note to self. Why? you need to work on the why. You no I no you do cuz you have read all this stuff you just need to come up with a why.

Im going to keep reading and work on the presentation for Jen on Wednesday.

We should have the reading week before the presentations that would have made more sence but ho hum cant have life the way we want all the time can we.

Keeping working on my disitation as well iv done 1500 so good on me and pat on the back keep going girl you can do it.

XxX

Wonder Women - TV Guid articl

April 10, 1999

Wonder Women

http://www.warriorprincess.com/Lucy/lucytvg041099.html

What could a brainy Borg from the 24th Century possibly have in common with a passionate Warrior Princess from ancient time? Puh-lenty, sister.

What happens when the Queen of Sword and Sorcery meets the Queen of Outer Space? It turns out that Lucy Lawless, who plays the title role in the syndicated hit Xena: Warrior Princess, and Jeri Ryan, the part-Borg, part-human Seven of Nine on UPN's Star Trek: Voyager, have more in common than their bodacious, butt-kicking characters: Both are strong yet sexy role models. Both are 31. Both mix work and motherhood.

TV GUIDE: You two have scored tremendous popularity playing smart, fierce, powerful action figures, so why don't we see a slew of Xena and Seven imitators?

JERI RYAN: Who knows? I'm theory-free. Somebody is always ripping off Friends or ER or Ally McBeal, but this is the one thing they've missed.

LUCY LAWLESS: Hey, maybe it's not that easy finding good-looking chicks who are also smart.

RYAN: And can do action.

LAWLESS: And are good actresses. Maybe we've just caught the wave of grrrl power. It's very hard to analyze any of this. I mean, 40 years of feminism has culminated with the Spice Girls.

RYAN: If you'll notice, the film industry hasn't exactly capitalized on the success of action women, either. There was Sigourney Weaver. And Linda Hamilton. And...well, that's about it.

LAWLESS: It's a shame that we're such standouts. But who needs the competition? I like it that so few women can do action.

TVG: You both came to success in different ways. Xena sort of snuck up on people, but fans were already buzzing about Seven before her first episode.

RYAN: Exactly! I was getting hate mail before I hit the air. People saw the early photos of my cat suit and thought I was dragging Star Trek into the gutter. Now those people are my strongest supporters. Seven has become a very positive role model for women.

TVG: Is there pressure in that?

LAWLESS: At first it felt like a burden - like a yoke I couldn't carry. But I eventually came to see that it can be really pleasant, that people aren't expecting more of me - just that I be human, be kind.

TVG: Your characters are also similar and rather unusual in the TV landscape in that their primary relationships are with other women - Xena with Gabrielle [Renee O'Connor], Seven with Captain Janeway [Kate Mulgrew].

LAWLESS: Oooh, female buddies! [Raises an eyebrow and flashes a mock erotic glance toward RYAN.] That topic again.

RYAN: Wink, wink, nudge, nudge! But, seriously, why is it perceived as odd? Women can be strong and self-sufficient but still want female bonding.

LAWLESS: That's life! Why don't we see more of that? All my best friends are women.

TVG: Both of you have major lesbian followings.

LAWLESS: And I'll be eternally grateful for that. The lesbians were our first fans, especially the lesbian community in New York City. They're the ones who started the underground buzz about us. They really gave Xena a groove.

TVG: So they're not imagining a lesbian subtext in your show?

LAWLESS: Well, that supposed "subtext" came as a surprise to me. At first, I kind of laughed and said, "Oh, isn't that silly!" It struck us all as very amusing. But then, because there's always a large lesbian contingent on the crews in New Zealand, we started playing up to it on the set. We'd drop a few jokes into the scenes here and there. They weren't in the script, just impromptu lesbian high jinks on the day of filming. But we've moved on. I mean, how long can you keep that going?

RYAN: There was a big petition on the Internet to have Seven be the first lesbian [regular] on Star Trek. Then somebody issued a fake press release announcing it was going to happen. Then all the fans got disappointed when it didn't. Well, not everyone. I don't know that mainstream America is ready for it. But who knows? My character is exploring all aspects of humanity - and sexuality is certainly one of those aspects - so it wouldn't surprise me if lesbianism is touched on. Seven would be the obvious character to explore it with. Our show is about acceptance and shedding prejudice.

TVG: Does playing tough ever get too tough?

LAWLESS: Last season we had a long stretch of episodes that were very emotionally charged and physically demanding, and we were in snow and rain and cold for months. I was in so much discomfort that I just lost it. Oh, the tears! The drama! I started to have what is called a neural association, where you associate work with pain. It got to the point where I could not even speak about work at home. So then, by association, home became a bad thing. I was a mess. But thanks to some Tony Robbins tapes, I nipped it in the bud before I lost everything, including the respect of my colleagues and possibly my marriage.

RYAN: I had a similar experience. I was sick with something almost every day of my first season - colds, sinus infections, bronchitis - and getting only four hours of sleep a night because of the schedule, so by the time we got to this really grueling, complicated two-parter set in World War II, I was totally wiped. It all came to a head during an exterior night shot when El Nino moved in, and it started to rain on us - pouring rain - and I completely broke down. I couldn't function. I just sat down for a long time crying and trying to figure out if being on the show was worth it - because at that point it didn't seem like it was.

TVG: Don't tears on the job set back the cause of feminism?

RYAN: Hey, anybody would buckle under those circumstances. Anyway, I tend to cry rather than scream at people or hit walls or throw things. You know, like guys do.

TVG: Despite the role models you provide, let's face it, neither of you is June Cleaver. Sex is still the driving force of your characters.

LAWLESS: On Xena, we link everything to sexuality. Listen, we're not doing Law & Order. I'm totally comfortable with the quotient of eye candy on our show. We try to make a smart show that pretends it's sexy and dopey.

RYAN: I have no problem with it, either. I knew exactly what I was in for when I had my first costume fitting. Clearly my character was added to the show for sex appeal, which remains the one way to get attention very quickly. I don't think it's the only way to get viewers to watch strong women, but it worked. The reason they stuck around wasn't because she's wearing Saran Wrap, but because she is written beautifully, intelligently, courageously.

Because of a hectic Xena schedule that frequently has her shooting on location in the hinterlands of New Zealand, Lucy Lawless usually sees her 10-year-old daughter, Daisy, only on weekends. The star's ex-husband, Auckland computer specialist Garth Lawless, whom she divorced three years ago, has custody of Daisy Mondays through Fridays. "He's a very hands-on, excellent father," says the actress." The arrangement is sometimes emotionally hard on us all, but considering the circumstances, it works out well. When I'm in America for an extended time, Daisy either comes with me, or - if she's in school - we meet halfway in Hawaii for little vacations. She's a real water baby." Though Lawless, married since March 1998 to Xena cocreator and executive producer Rob Tapert, intends to pursue movie roles when Xena ends its run, she says, "career is not as important as having a long, successful marriage and having more kids." During Xena hiatuses, she and Tapert flee Auckland for their new home in Studio City, California. "I love how you can be as big as you dare in America, and people aren't intimidated by it." - M.L.

Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan says her recent divorce from Chicago-based banker Jack Ryan "has been quite rough, especially with the tabloids printing every single aspect of it." But the split has simplified matters: For the first year and a half of her Voyager run, the actress made exhaustive, twice-weekly commutes from her home in Chicago to the set in Los Angeles. "Just walking into an airport still puts me in a foul mood," claims Ryan, who now shares permanent Los Angeles digs with her 4-year-old son, Alex. The boy is struggling with his mom's popularity. "The older he gets, the more it affects him," says Ryan. "He used to be all right about my being recognized in public, but now when some-body wants an autograph, he says, �No, you're Mommy! You're Mommy!' and he will pull me along. That's very hard." Ryan, born in Germany to a U.S. Army sergeant and his housekeeping wife, says, "I've got a lot of guilt going on here. My own mom didn't go to work until I was 13, and I know I benefited so much from that." - M.L.

-- reprinted from TV Guide, April 10, 1999

Thinking in Pictures

(note: polistirine head with computer components in it. Like 7 of 9. Female but also computer)

Mirror Mask

Dave McKean
http://www.mckean-art.co.uk/

Steriotypes (Disitation outline Number 2)

We all use steriotypes in our day to day life. We talk to some one on the phone they say there a Managing Director your brain instantly thinks of the Managing Director Steriotype - male, suit, breaf case, about 40ish years old, drives a big car has a family and lives in a big house. These steriotypes can be a mis jugment and most often than not they are. How ever they are a good survile technique. We see a strang looking person acting odd in the street our brain flicks though the steriotypes in our head and we do a risk analasis to see if its safe to go near that person.

Steriotypes are part of our every day life and the 4 steriotypes and representations of these steriotypes that im looking at are Geeks, Heros, Villens and Sex Objects. Im going to add another little twist to this steriotype Im going to look at the Female versions of these steriotypes and how they are represented in Cyberculter and how a new breed of Cyber femanists have started to make a mark on our Cyberculter.

The Geek

So what do we think when some one says geek or more specificaly female geek? There the skiny, shy characters with thick glasses hair tyed back librarian type with hardly any friends, they tell binary jokes and have funny teath. When we look at this character in Cyberculter we would call these characters the techno geeks and they have been jushed up and given a make over.

Willow from the well known tv show "Buffy the Vampia Slayer" is a book worm come hacker. She acts as tho she is not comfortable in her own body but when it comes to work and computers she is in her element. She turns out to be a lesbian witch and a powerful one that turns bad. This seams to be a trait repeats. A female character can not be strong and powerful with out there being an element of faleier involved. Willow ends up not being able to controle her powers and so turns bad, killing people and getting to a point when she may distroy the her self or the world with her powers. It is as tho a female character can not be portrade as strong and independent with out a male character eather over shadowing her or that her strenth lets her down in the end.

Another good representation of a female geek is Angela Bennett aka Ruth Marx in "The Net" she is a computer programer who spechalises in braking virases. She is very insular she does not have a partner and only comunicates with the out side world though emails and phone. She hardly goes out. The internet and chat rooms are her life. In the film her identity is changed using computers and so she becomes Ruth Marx who is wanted by the FBI for murder and so she has to run for her life. This character is simular to Willow from "Buffy the Vampia Slayer" as she starts of being very geeky and insular and in the end they both come out of them selves and become these strong hero type characters. How ever they both have more dominent partners that controle them in some way. They are not pure heros simular to male characters such as Neo from "The Matrix".

This may be due to the fact that these characters are created by male wrighters and the steriotypes of women are to be strong but sensative. If the creaters of these characters were to create female characters that broke these steriotypes then they would be persived more as male than female. As Willow become stronger and more powerful with her magic she was persived more masculine and this is also the same time we find out that she is a lesbian. She has become powerful and also falling in love with another woman she is forfilling a male steriotype. This could be why these women are not created strong and inderpendent compleatly from male characters.

Another character that this has happend to would be Xena from "Xeana Warior Princes" she started out being a strong Amazonion warior type woman. She would rome the antiant world with her side kick Gabriel killing monsters and saving villages from the bad guys. She also delt with the Gods and Godesses and for a time she worked along side Hurculeas. How ever later on in the series after her sexual encounters with a few male characters suspisions started to arise in the media that Xena was actualy a lesbian and involved with her side kick Gabriel.

The steriotypes were being broken again and again a strong independent female character had crossed the line again and was becomeing a male character she therefor had to be a lesbian. And shore as eggs are eggs the script righters created a relationship between Xena and Gabriel who become lovers.

The Hero

Heros are the character we all want to be like. They always get the girl or guy, there good looking everything turns out right and there in the right place at the right time. Female heros tend to be tall, sexy and strong but they all eather have a weekness or are supported by a stronger male hero character.

A good example of this is Trinity from "The Matrix". In the sceen when Neo meets Trinity, the legendary hacker responsible for braking the IRS dbase, for the first time in the bar after following the wight rabbit. He is shocked to find she is a woman. She is a talented hacker and the sterio types for a hacker is a whight male in his early teens to late twentys. Not a female. She is portrade as a tall, strong and sexy female chacter who can fight along side the male characters. However she ends up needing Neo and depending on him for her life. She goes from being the dominent character over Neo to the submisive support love interest. Unlike Willow or Xean she does not cross the steriotype line and become male she stays female but loses her dominance and strenth keeping her inside the female steriotype.

Looking for real life cyber hero women I looked for a real life aquivalent of Trinity, a female hacker. This took me on a long and interesting mission. I found a Forum that was discussing "Girl Hackers" there were some very intersting points made.

"I doubt most girls go about bragging about how they are hackers, they go about doing what they do, they kick ass, where as guys brag and show off." (Reaper 05-19-2005, 5:39pm )

This is a good point and if girls are changing there identiys so that they apear male they will not want to draw attention to them selves. Another positive point was made after the above quote.

"Whenever girls enter into an intellectual & male-dominated field, they garner a great deal of attention and (usually) respect. This is because, well, guys love girls, especially cool & smart ones. Girl chessplayers are also remarkably rare, and we guys love to see them." (The Mighty Eggplant 05-19-2005, 6:25pm)

This coment would lead to suggest that girls should be less worred about being a hacker and working in the cyber world how ever reading on though the forum you can see negativity towards females in the hacking world.

"Girls in the world of hackers have 2 out of 3 qualityes:
They're Sane
They're Single
They're Good Looking" (Osiris 05-09-2005, 10:32pm)

This quote posted by Osiris shows how female hackers are perseved in the real world. However when it comes to the big screen they are glamed and glist up to become "hot female hackers" They become a male fantasy as in the example of Trinity from the Matrix, an ass kicking, leather-cladd supper hacker played by one of Holywoods most atractive female actresses Carrie-Anne Moss.

Trinity has one big advantage over other female hacker representations in other films such as "Hackers" and "the net". Trinity has real life hacker credability all because she uses a reall life hacking tool in the Matrix sequal "Reloaded". Trinity uses a free and popular scanning tool called an Nmap, created by Fyodor. She uses this tool to reveal the exsistance of a vulnerablity in a computer she is targiteing. She later goes on to use a real -world loophole called a "SSH1 CRC32" to gain the highest level access to the target mashine.

This use of reall world hacking tools has make the cyber community bow down to the Wachowski Brothers. Unlike past films such as "Hackers" were reall life hackers and people with computer knowlage cringed at the unrealistic portrail of the internet and people who use it. The Matrix brings reality to our screens.



The Villen


The Sex object


Cyber Femanists


Conclusion

Projection and Viewing Exploration

Note: all sites were viewed on the 20/10/05

http://www.heretical.com/sexsci/bpsychol.html

http://edison.rutgers.edu/mopix/earlproj.htm

http://www.shef.ac.uk/pr/press_releases/pr99/22-99.html (could go and see this is shefield)

http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html

http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Park/3740/articles/stanhope.html

http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/peep/

Women and Computers

The Right Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace. (Ada Lovelace) - (December 10th 1815 - November 27th 1852)

During a nine-month period in 1842-1843, Ada translated for Babbage Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's memoir on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of Notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the Engine, recognized by historians as the world's first computer program. Biographers note, however, that the programs were written by Babbage himself, and Lovelace simply found a mistake in the program for calculating Bernoulli numbers and sent it back for amendment. The evidence and correspondence between Lovelace and Babbage indicate that he wrote all of the programs in the notes appended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilities of the machine which Babbage never published, such as speculating that "the Engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."
Ada Lovelace died at 36 after being bled to death by her physicians; she had uterine cancer. Thus, she died, ironically, not only at the same age as her father did, but even of the same cause - the mistaken custom of bloodletting. She left two sons and a daughter, Lady Anne Blunt, famous in her own right as a traveller in the Middle East and a breeder of Arabian horses.
At her own request, Lovelace was buried next to the father she never knew at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace 20/10/05)

Trivia

• On December 10, 1980, (Ada's birthday), the U.S. Defense Department approved the reference manual for their new computer programming language, called "Ada".
• The U.S. Department of Defense Military Standard for Ada (MIL-STD-1815) was assigned a number to commemorate the year of her birth.
• On the math-mystery cartoon, Cyberchase, she appears as the animated character Lady Ada Lovelace, voiced by Saturday Night Live comedian Jane Curtin. The episode is "Hugs and Witches" (#201) which premiered February 14, 2002 on PBS Kids GO!.
• She is one of the main characters in the alternate history novel The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, which posits a world in which Babbage's machines were mass produced and the computer age started a century early.
• Lord Byron's Novel by John Crowley is a pastiche of a novel supposedly by Byron (in real life he did begin writing one, but is not known to have completed it), discovered after his death by his daughter, edited and with commentary by her.
• Her image can be seen on the Microsoft product authenticity hologram stickers.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace 20/10/05)

Grace Hopper
(December 9th 1906 - January 1st 1992)

Throughout much of her later career, Grace Hopper was much in demand as a speaker at various computer-related events. She was well-known for her lively and irreverent speaking style, as well as a rich treasury of early "war stories".
While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term computer bug cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, she did bring the term into popularity. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA (NSWCDD).
Grace Hopper is famous for her nanoseconds visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her why satellite communication took so long. She started handing out pieces of wire which were under one foot long, which is the distance that light travels in one nanosecond. Later she used the same pieces of wire to illustrate why computers had to be small to be fast. At many of her talks, she handed out nanoseconds to everyone in the audience, contrasting them with a coil of wire nearly a thousand feet long, representing a microsecond.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper 20/10/05)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing

Gorilla Girls

Female - Geeks, Heros, Villans and Sex Objects

Geeks

Librarian Steriotype
7 of 9
Angela Bennett/Ruth Marx - The Net
Willow Rosenberg - Buffy the Vampa Slayer
Dr. Beth Halperin - Sphere
B'Elanna Torres - Star Trek: Voyager
Dr. Ellie Sattler - Jurassic Park
Lora - Tron
Bond Girls

Heros

Lara Croft
Trinity
Acid Burn
Molly
7 of 9
Max - Dark Angel

Villans

Borg Queen
iRobot Mainframe computer
Evil Buffy Bot
Lady Deathstrike
Gwen Grayson
Evil Willow (buffy)
7 of 9

Sex Objects (babes)

7 of 9
Lara Croft
Acid Burn
Molly
Bond Girls

Found a Female Cyberculter Villan

The search has come up trumps Iv found a Female villan in cyber culter and she is a big one one of the best and just oh so bad. THE BORG QUEEN!!! Half computer hafe human female you just cant ask for more.

Iv also found a few others.

The computer in IRobot that controles the robots
The computer system in Resident Evil the film (first on)
There is an eposode of Buffy the Vampia Slayer were there is an evil Buffy Robot and Evil Willow
Gwen Grayson - "technopath" from the film Skyhigh
Lady Deathstrike from Xmen

But the Borg Queen is so the BEST!!!!

comics

Iv been to one of our fav book shops and got my hands on 3 books well should I say 1 book and 2 graphic novals.

500 Comicbook Villains by Mike Conroy

and

Daniel Clowes "Ghost World"
"The Matrix comics"

Why No Bad Girls? Female steriotypes in Cyberculter

Ok the orientation has shifted slightly. Iv been looking at strong female roles in cyberculter. Trinity from the "Matrix", Molly from "Neuromancer" and Acid Burn from the film "Hackers". They are all follow along the lines of a Hero sterio type. Iv also found examples of Female Geeks and Sex objects in Cyberculter.

But the question that has to be asked is why can't I find a female cyber villan?

The only one I have managed to posibly find is Female charecter in an X-File eposode that creates a Lara Croft type character and this character tryes to kill Mulder.

Are there any more? Can there be a female vilan in Cyberculter and why are they so rare? Why is it always a male character or the faceless Corportation? Is this just the way Cyberculter is? The Hacking Nation looking for truth, Justice and freedom of information from the big bad corporation?

The search for the Bad Girls of Cyber Vill goes on!

Posible Female Villans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Rosenberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Grayson (Gwen Grayson - Sky High)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Deathstrike

list of villans - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_villains#.23

Our Identity as Women on the Net

Iv been looking around the net and found a cool site www.obn.org looking at there FAQ I found this

"What is OBN? OBN stands for Old Boys Network. OBN is regarded as the first international Cyberfeminist alliance and was founded in 1997 in Berlin. Since the early days the network keeps changing due to changing members. OBN is a real and a virtual coalition of Cyberfeminists. Under the umbrella of the term 'Cyberfeminism', OBN contributes to the critical discourse on new media, especially focussing on its gender-specific aspects."

Iv had a flick though there people list and there is a very big array of Females who are members working on all sorts of projects. Some are 'activists' to me that means they run close to the edge. But untill I check them out more I could not posibly say.

I have been thinking tho. Do we have a sexuality in cyber space? Male and female becomes blured online we are what we say we are. Through all of my research Im comeing accross references to women finding it hard to learn technics and tricks to be cyber criminals or just geeks, and this is all down to being female. Why does being female hold us back and would saying we are men make any difference.

In my life I have found peoples reactions to me as a computer "wiz" as iv been called to be one of shock. I don't fit in with the steriotype of a computer geek. First Im a woman and then I don't ware glasses, don't have buck teeth and don't tell binary jokes.

Why is being a woman who like and uses computers such a freek to be?

To add horror to horror I also like fast cars (I own a sports car, no one said being a Geek you had to be poor lol), I like and understand football but its not as good as cars and I can drink as well as any guy I no. I have also been told that Im not that bad looking being 6foot tall usualy helps that out.

There must be other female Geeks and cyber criminals out there that don't fit the steriotype. I put a call out to you if your there. Drop me a comment and if your a Male Geer or cyber criminal drop me a line as well and tell me if you fit in with the steriotypes or not.

XxX

Disitation Out Line

Intoduction (500 words)

• Geek the history
• Types of Cyber Criminals
• The representations im going to look at

Representations of male Geek / Cyber Criminal on screen & in Litreture (2,000 words)

• Neuromancer - Case ("the hotest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway")
  
• Hackers - male characters
• The Matrix - Neo
  

Representations of female Geek / Cyber Criminal on screen & in Litreture (2,000 words)

• Neuromancer - Molly
  
• The Matrix - Trinity
• Hackers - Kate Libby (aka 'Acid Burn')
  

True life meets the Representations (1,000 words)

• Hackers jailed for global 'worm' plot
  
• Old Boys Network (Female) http://www.obn.org/
  

Conclusion (500 words)

This will show that in the real world Geeks / Cyber Criminals are not as glamoruse as show in film, tv and litreture and that there are consiquenses to what you do and that there are real life people working hard for what they achive using computers as a tool. The sterio types need re-shaping and that female geeks/cyber criminals are not busty sex objects for male onlookers to forn over.

Identity as a comodity

Our Identity is a big part of use, it makes us and lets us tell other people who we are. With Identy theft and also criminals changeing there identy so as not to be court. I started thinking about identity as a comodity.

In films I have watched criminals have differnet Id's for different jobs, countrys and even people they no. In cyber space we create an identy for our selves be it a true or fake one. Some of use create these identies purely for security reasons you dont want any tom dick or harry knowing ware you live. Other people create there identity so they can have a cover name, not be traced because they are undertaking dubius if not criminal activitys.

Hackers have an alias as is sean in films and the real world. These aliases can be androdgenus. After looking into sexuality in cyberspace I have found it to be a very whight male dominated place. For a female hacker to get on in this hard world she normaly takes on a male or androgenus name and also prentends to be one of the lads.

A good example of this representation is Trinity from the Matrix. In the scean when Neo meets Trinity, the legendary hacker responsible for braking the IRS dbase, for the first time in the bar after following the wight rabbit. He is shocked to find she is a woman. She is a talented hacker and the sterio types for a hacker is a whight male in his early teens to late twentys. Not a female.

I found a Forum that was discussing "Girl Hackers" there were some very intersting points made.

"I doubt most girls go about bragging about how they are hackers, they go about doing what they do, they kick ass, where as guys brag and show off." (Reaper 05-19-2005, 5:39pm )

This is a good point and if girls are changing there identiys so that they apear male they will not want to draw attention to them selves. Another positive point was made after the above quote.

"Whenever girls enter into an intellectual & male-dominated field, they garner a great deal of attention and (usually) respect. This is because, well, guys love girls, especially cool & smart ones. Girl chessplayers are also remarkably rare, and we guys love to see them." (The Mighty Eggplant 05-19-2005, 6:25pm)

This coment would lead to suggest that girls should be less worred about being a hacker and working in the cyber world how ever reading on though the forum you can see negativity towards females in the hacking world.

"Girls in the world of hackers have 2 out of 3 qualityes:
They're Sane
They're Single
They're Good Looking" (Osiris 05-09-2005, 10:32pm)

This quote posted by Osiris shows how female hackers are perseved in the real world. However when it comes to the big screen they are glamed and glist up to become "hot female hackers" They become a male fantasy as in the example of Trinity from the Matrix, an ass kicking, leather-cladd supper hacker played by one of Holywoods most atractive female actresses Carrie-Anne Moss.

Trinity has one big advantage over other female hacker representations in other films such as "Hackers" and "the net". Trinity has real life hacker credability all because she uses a reall life hacking tool in the Matrix sequal "Reloaded". Trinity uses a free and popular scanning tool called an Nmap, created by Fyodor. She uses this tool to reveal the exsistance of a vulnerablity in a computer she is targiteing. She later goes on to use a real -world loophole called a "SSH1 CRC32" to gain the highest level access to the target mashine.

This use of reall world hacking tools has make the cyber community bow down to the Wachowski Brothers. Unlike past films such as "Hackers" were reall life hackers and people with computer knowlage cringed at the unrealistic portrail of the internet and people who use it. The Matrix brings reality to our screens.

20/20/20

(Note: all websites were accessed on 05/10/05)

People:

• Dr Adam Graycar - Director, Australian Institute of Criminology - http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/other/graycar_adam/2000-02-cybercrime.html
• The Geek Squad - http://www.geeksquad.com/


Books/ Journals: *** = key books ** = Posible interest (all others good read around subject books)

• "Geek Chic" by Neil Feineman ISBN 0500285616 ***
• "Geek Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Geek Culture" by Neil Feineman ISBN 1584232056
• "Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas" by David Kushner ISBN: 1400064074 **
• "The Geeks of War" by John Edwards ISBN: 0814408524
• "Cyberselfish: High-tech and the True Revenge of the Nerds" by Paulina Borsook ISBN: 1891620789
• "The Geek Handbook" by HALPIN ISBN: 0671036866
• "When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien" by John Leonard ISBN: 1565846435 **


Web-sites:

http://www.geek.com/features/name/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/11/womhackers.DTL
http://www.obn.org/hackers/text2.htm
http://www.dvara.net/HK/facing.asp
http://pcworld.about.com/news/Apr042001id45804.htm
http://www.ubergeek.tv/listing.php?list=animation
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/neuromancer.shtml - Neuromancer book in full
http://www.ccmostwanted.com
http://www.cartoonstock.com/ - geek and cyber criminal cartoons
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,17793,00.html
http://www.grrlgamer.com/

Female Geeks/Cyber Criminals:

• Trinity - Matrix
• Max - Dark Angel
• Kate Libby (aka 'Acid Burn') - Hackers
• Angela Bennett/Ruth Marx - The Net
• Willow Rosenberg - Buffy the Vampia Slayer
• Dr. Beth Halperin - Sphere
• B'Elanna Torres - Star Trek: Voyager
• Dr. Ellie Sattler - Jurassic Park
• Fred - Angel (maths and physics geek)
• Gadget Hackwrench - Disney's Rescue Rangers
• Jordan Cochran - Real Genius
• Kaylee - Firefly
• Lex - Jurassic Park
• Linda McKay - Hollow Man
• Lora - Tron
• Lieutenant Nyota Uhura - Star Treck: The original series

Stuff:

MIT usage: (1) Exploring or visiting out-of-the-way places. Usually involves roofs, tunnels, or places behind locked doors around the MIT campus. Example usages include "I'm going hacking tonight" or "the hacking community". Related to the noun hack, involving a creative and non-destructive prank, but not the proper verb form of the noun. (2) Working, usually involving programming. "I was hacking code all night.

Backdoors
Trojans
Port
Electonic Vandals
Trespassing
Recreational Trespassing
Breaking and Entering (B&E)
Spelunking (Urban Spelunking)
Crawling
Hacking Crews
Prack
Crack
Hack
Forbidden zone
Hacking ethics
The Game
31337 http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=31337

Its all changed and know its exciting

Iv been looking at the Femme Fatal stuff and iv been getting very anoyed with it as well as lost. So after mind-mapping out what things I am interested and talking to Stuart about it a new subject is born.

When Geeks go bad!
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE GEEK / CYBER CRIMINAL

Im going to look into Geeks, Cyber Criminals, fraude, identity theft, hackers, female Geeks and Cyber Criminals and how they are represented in Media such as Films, Comics, TV Shows etc.

Owwww its all exciting know as iv always wanted to be a interested in this area and even wanted and still want to be one of these characters.

So lets rock and role Cyber Criminals and Geeks unit.

Femme Fatale

"I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way." - Jessica Rabbit
"when i'm good, i'm very good. But when i'm bad i'm even better." - Mae West

Iv been looking into the female characters though out time and found that the vamp type characters are best refered to as Femme Fatale. Iv looked into this and found the sexuality of the characters is a very strong element of there personality. I found a poll on http://www.retrocrush.com/toons this gives the top 50 sexiest cartoon babes. At number one is Jessica Rabbit. She is a voluptuous femme fatale fratureing in the 1988 film "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?".

Iv also put together a list of characteristics of a femme fatale:

Stockings
Cigeret holder
long coats / dresses
large bust
long legs
small waste
Martine
Red lipstick
Dark or red long hair
Danguras
confused
conflicted
not quite innocent
heartless vanp
lust
sexual drive
deadly woman

"A key element to this strenghth is her sexual forthrightmess. The femme fatale is not passive when it comes to desire. She takes action to get what - and whom - she wants with a directness and aggression previously reserved for male players. As a result she is sometimes lablelled a "predator" despite acting no differently from accepted male norms." - What is this thing called film noir, anyway? by Roger Westcombe 2003 (http://www.bighousefilm.com/noir_intro.htm - 28/09/05)

Books:

ISBN 0195056523
"Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of feminine evil in Fin-De-Siecle culture"

ISBN 0805055495
"Evil sisters: The threat of female sexuality in Twentieth - Centry Cultutre.

ISBN 0345303253
"Who censored Roger Rabbit?"
Gary Wolf

ISBN
"Who P-p-plugged Rodger Rabbit?; A Hare-Raising Mystery"
Gary Wolf

Films:

Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese
(1976)

Notes:

• otherworldly feel of a waking dream
• characters as mirrors for the audience's psychological fears & desires

Links of things I need to read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_character - 28/09/05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale - 28/09/05
http://www.amrep.org/articals/1_1/femme.html -28/09/05
http://www.bighousefilm.com/noir_intro.htm -28/09/05
http://www.who2.com/jessicarabbit.html - 28/09/05
http://www.gamestudies.org/0202/kennedy/ -28/09/05
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_ronen01.shtml -07/05/05
http://www.signiform.com/erik/pubs/ddcogsci.htm -22/07/05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal_psychology -14/07/05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination -14/07/05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_a_deux -14/07/05
http://tantra.exoticindiaart.com -22/07/05
www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~ket/THESWEBII.pdf -22/07/05
http://www.flong.com/telesymphony/related -02/10/05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog -03/10/05
http://www.jahsonic.com/VPNC.html -03/10/05