According to this New York Times article, “women accounted for only 12 percent of undergraduate degrees in computer science and engineering in the United States and Canada granted in 2006-7 by Ph.D.-granting institutions, down from 19 percent in 2001-2. Many computer science departments report that women now make up less than 10 percent of the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
26 Jan
Gendered Representations of Computer Users
This week, we read four articles that discussed the way gender of computer users was represented in media images. In general, women are depicted as “shy, passive and gentle…in passive or nurturing roles” while men were “dominant and powerful…portrayed in active/nonnurtrant, productive or aggressive roles” [2].
This implies that technology is a male-dominated [...]
24 Jan
Gender and Computerization
This semester, I am taking a class in Gender and Computerization. This class is of interest to me for two reasons:
1) Professional: My focus is Human-Computer Interaction Design, which means I am interested in how the way that humans interact with computers should shape the design of interfaces. Many aspects [...]
23 Jan
Happy Birthday, Mac!
The Mac will be 25 years old tomorrow. Crazy! I was in 6th grade when this commercial came out, AND we were reading 1984 in my English class, so I remember this commercial very well. And, here I am 25 years later an avid Mac user!
Thanks [...]
