Last week, when trying to prepare to present articles in class, I went to YouTube and did a search for “women and technology”. There were a couple of videos with that name that came up that were very degrading. Basically, they were depictions of women having trouble using a piece of technology. Here [...]
Archive for February, 2009
23 Feb
Memes and gender
This week and next week, I am not going to discuss an article from the readings in my Gender and Computing class, because I will be acting as “lead discussant” during class both weeks, and (per the syllabus) we are supposed to exclude those articles from our blog posts.
So, this week I want to discuss [...]
20 Feb
Contextualizing Computer Science Education
I’m a little behind on my weekly post for my Gender and Computing class. This week’s topic was “Environmental and educational factors. Experiences of females and males in and out of computer science programs.”
One paper we read evaluated at an initiative by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim to increase the [...]
9 Feb
Gender attitudes toward computers
Are females less interested than males in computers?
I’ve had a few discussions with some people about the topic of the gender computing gap, and more than once people have made statements like, “Women just aren’t interested in computers.” One friend equated the lack of women’s interest in working in IT with the lack of interest [...]
2 Feb
Can peer networking for women reverse the gender computer gap?
This post is another in the “series” I’m writing as a requirement for my Gender and Computing class. This week’s topic is “Gender on the Web: Visual representation and communication on the Web”.
Three of the articles we read were content analyses. One analyzed the home pages of adolescents, one focused on video [...]
