Memo_1

-Distributing some online questionnaires to online women -Interviewing with women rights activists || -Are genders supposed equal in the legislation? -Are women aware of their legal rights? -Which factor has the main impact on right inequalities? Religious, social, political or economical ones? || - to contribute the enlightenment of women of their legal rights -to know what are the gender inequalities in the region - to determine which factor has more influence on gender inequality in the region ||  I have experienced gender inequality in my real life, having a twin sister who is studying PHD in private law has helped me also to know more about legal rights of women around the world and Iran. ||  As a woman who has lived in a society in where patriarchal –Islamic system is dominating, I do believe that gender equality is a missing fact. || Law and Women Rights  || -  AWID! The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), -Commission on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women( UNDCP) -Global Fund for Women ( http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/  ) || -Can female audiences of ICT transform their communicative forms and social relations? -Do women prefer to be anonymous in the virtual societies? -Can extraverted woman be transformed into an introverted user in the ICT sphere? -Which online services women are inclined to participate? And why? -Which online services do women evade to participate? Why? -Can ICT fortify the participation of women in socio political activities? || -To make restricted women more familiar of the advantages of ICT -To make female audiences of ICT empower by grasping the online opportunities they might have in order to overcome the social restrictions imposed on them ||  -I myself have benefited greatly almost of all online services and that has been a useful key in all my life so my firsthand experiences will help me. Also by teaching the sociology of mass media course in Payam Nour University in Iran, I became anxious to research on sociology of electronic media and ICT and their interactions with women. || My assumption is that with the advent of internet as a new medium, female audiences have taken the advantages of this public sphere in where they could publish free from the long barriers and sharp eyes of their social communities. My bias is that cyberspace has endowed them the opportunity of expression with no restrictions of time and place, disabilities and gender. Women found the opportunity of transforming everything from their real body to their real identities by using ICT. || Sociology, women studies and ICT  || ** -I ** NSTRAW: UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women - UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund - UNIFEM: UN Development Fund for Women  || -Interviewing with women -Studying the archival resources related to ethnography of Middle East region ||  _ How is the social presence of the women in the region? -How is the situation of marriage of dating in such restricted societies? -How is the condition of education for female population of the region? || -To have a comparison of advantages of internet which have endowed women and by comparing every specific situation in off line world, I can survey better on the advantages of Internet on women. || -By studying the ethnographic researches on women in the Middle East and living in this country for 30 years  ||  The undeniable fact of Middle East women is that female population of the Middle East region must be inherent severely in her physical and real life to traditions of norms of society and to “her” which has been made her commensurate with her communities’ social and cultural conditions. || Ethnography  ||  -Global Fund for women ( http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/ ) -    ||  -Studying the filtering regulations  ||  - Is there any filtering policy website in the region? -if yes, what are the reasons of taking such a policy in the region? -What are the consequences of internet filtering on women in the region? || -To prove that controlling female audiences option to some specific information, data and services by governments has faded away the dream of women empowerment by using ICT. || -To make myself prepared for a conference on globalization and youth identity, I realized that most websites are filtered so I became aware of this fact so by reading the regulations of such policies I can discuss on such policies. || Restrictive regulations of internet filtering are intensifying in Middle East region which my bias is that these regulations are most obstacles to the free flow of information and empowering the female audiences of ICT in the region. || Policy studies  ||  - **I**NSTRAW: UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women - UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund - UNIFEM: UN Development Fund for Women  ||
 * **// Topical Area //** || **// Data Set //** || **// Social Theoretical questions //** || **// Why now? //** || **// How prepared? //** || **// Bias //** || **// Fields of work //** || **// Funders //** ||
 * Women Rights In Middle East Region ||  -Reading and comparing the legislation to find discrepancies of women and men rights
 * Sociology of women and Information Communication Technologies in Middle East ||  Archival analysis and study of ICTs in Middle East and reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of them in the restricted societies of Middle East region  ||  -How reliable are virtual identities of ICT users?
 * Ethnography of off line situation of Female audiences of Internet in Middle East ||  -Using my personal memories of living in this restricted societies
 * Internet Filtering Policy in Middle East ||  _Studying the internet regulation in Middle East