ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the category of religious social shaping of technology or the shift to a value-centered approach. It addresses how strategies from open source technology intersect with the theo-ethical concept of just hospitality to raise questions about promotion of access, diversity, and peer production, which would argue foundational feminist academic concerns. Russell suggests one have to be specific about practices of hospitality. It is much easier to reduce conflict and disagreements if people focus on what makes us the same. When scholars use digital open-source media, one begins to see how open source is a technological embodiment of just hospitality full of vulnerability, encounters with relational difference, and sustained through partnership. Technologies have allowed, even encouraged us to build spaces for network and conversation, to meet the stranger and test differences. These spaces are not only text based or single dimensional, but also contain visuals and data-gathering aspects.
