"[7] Through its website, FemTechNet provides "resources for learning more about feminism, cyberfeminism, and feminist theories of technology, including videos with major scholars and subject matter experts, reading lists and bibliographies, projects to do with classmates or undertake on your own as a do-it-yourselfer, and syllabi from past and present FemTechNet classes.
[9] FemTechNet describes itself as “an activated network of scholars, artists and students who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science and feminism in a variety of fields including STS, Media and Visual Studies, Art, Women's, Queer and Ethnic Studies.”[10] In a peer-reviewed concept paper, the founders more concretely described the project as one of interdisciplinary community building.
[11] Distributed open collaborative courses (DOCC), FemTechNet's primary initiative, uses networked technologies in many innovative ways, including developing “nodal” classes around shared themes that are augmented by video discussions available on FemTechNet's website by participating university instructors.
Described as a response to Wikipedia's gender imbalance,[14] the assignment is also used to highlight "the significant contributions of feminists to technology".
[15] "Wikistorming" got the attention of mainstream media networks, including a story by Fox News and CampusReform.org, which derisively framed the effort as counter-factual.