Over the past 16 weeks, I have been blogging about Gender and Computerization for a class assignment. When reviewing those blog postings as well as reflecting on my experience in the class as a whole, I’ve realized that I’ve taken a mostly-negative view.
In my defense, I have to say that’s not very hard to [...]
Archive for April, 2009
23 Apr
My final “official” Gender and Computerization post
22 Apr
Men are overlooked online? What?!
Last week, a market research firm released a report that “examines what men do online”. Part of the description for this report states:
The Men Online report analyzes the demographics and behavior of this large, but often overlooked, segment of Internet users.
Often overlooked??? Are they serious?
This semester, we have read papers that look [...]
12 Apr
The gender digital divide
This week’s topic is “Gender, globalization, the “digital divide,” and digital inequality.
The term “digital divide” has been used to describe inequalities in access to computers and the Internet between groups of people based on one or more social or cultural identifiers, like race or gender.
In 2001, Gorski noted that the number of women using the [...]
5 Apr
Video game design and gender
This week for my Gender and Computing class, we’re continuing the discussion about video games and virtual environments. The focus of the articles we read this week is the design of the games.
One of the articles was published in 1999, and the author did a study of the video game designers themselves. The [...]
3 Apr
Sexting, Mass Hysteria, and the Inadequacies of the US Criminal Justice System
In my Gender and Computing class, we’ve talked briefly about this new thing called “sexting”. It’s where teenage females take nude photos of themselves and send them via cellphone to people, usually their boyfriends at the time. And, as you’ve probably figured out, the boyfriend forwards the pics to all his buddies, who [...]
