The digital world enables people to connect globally to create and disperse information quickly. In this fast-paced environment more businesses and institutions are looking for creative individuals with an understanding of the design-thinking paradigm. Because we live in a fast-paced world, designers and educators have used the design-thinking paradigm to create, edit, and revise digital objects to meet the demands for quick turnover. Regarding scholarship, the Internet has enabled scholars to publish their materials online. Some choose to publish their work in Open Access (OA) journals so that their scholarship reaches a broader audience because the journals are free to the public.
Strategies of (In)Visibility and Resilience: Women Writers in a Digital Era
Women's presence in literary history has been particularly conditioned by their place in society and by the limited spheres in which their production was expected to appear (e.g. the sentimental novel, romances or children's literature). In today's digital, open and connected society, women continue to face visibility problems in the publishing industry and in the online spaces that grant presence and agency. Their role in cultural creations is still hindered by vertical powers that operate as main censors. This circumstance takes place even in a rhizomatic and decentralized virtual space, where dissident discourses have highlighted it, although without enough discursive power to create a full disruption in those monolithic powers capable of isolating and making invisible whole social and cultural sectors. Forcing women's invisibility or limiting the scope of their production in cultural spheres results in adverse, when not downright traumatic, situations for these authors. The present study addresses the phenomenon of the neutralization of the female author and the strategies developed by women writing in Spanish and English in order to turn this situation around. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
