Hacking Diversity (eBook)

The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures

Christina Dunbar-Hester (Autor)

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2019
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19417-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia. Hacking Diversity investigates the activists engaged in free and open-source software to understand why, despite their efforts, they fail to achieve the diversity that their ideals support.Christina Dunbar-Hester shows that within this well-meaning volunteer world, beyond the sway of human resource departments and equal opportunity legislation, members of underrepresented groups face unique challenges. She brings together more than five years of firsthand research: attending software conferences and training events, working on message boards and listservs, and frequenting North American hackerspaces. She explores who participates in voluntaristic technology cultures, to what ends, and with what consequences. Digging deep into the fundamental assumptions underpinning STEM-oriented societies, Dunbar-Hester demonstrates that while the preferred solutions of tech enthusiasts-their "e;hacks"e; of projects and cultures-can ameliorate some of the "e;bugs"e; within their own communities, these methods come up short for issues of unequal social and economic power. Distributing "e;diversity"e; in technical production is not equal to generating justice.Hacking Diversity reframes questions of diversity advocacy to consider what interventions might appropriately broaden inclusion and participation in the hacking world and beyond.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 30 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy • afrofuturism • agnosticism • Ambivalence • anonymity • anthropologist • Blog • Capitalism • Career • Collaboration • Colonialism • Consideration • Counterculture • Creative Commons • Cyberfeminism • Cyberspace • Debian • Decision-Making • disadvantage • Dreamwidth • Electronic mailing list • elitism • Email • Employment • Empowerment • Engineering • Entrepreneurship • ethnic group • Fan fiction • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Fieldnotes • Free and open-source software • freedom of speech • Funding • Gabriella Coleman • Gender Diversity • Genderqueer • Governance • Hackathon • Hacker Culture • Hackers on Planet Earth • Hackerspace • harassment • Hegemonic masculinity • Ideation (creative process) • Identity (social science) • Individualism • Infrastructure • Institution • Intersectionality • Journalism • LGBT • mailing list • Market Value • Masculinity • Meetup (website) • Meritocracy • Militarism • Mozilla • National Science Foundation • Negotiation • Nerd • north–south divide • Online and offline • open-source software • participant • Politics • postfeminism • prefigurative politics • Pseudonym • Public sphere • querent • Racism • rhetoric • Ron Eglash • Safe-space • Sexism • Sex Toy • Skill • Social Exclusion • Social Inequality • social issue • Social Justice • social relation • Social Status • Social Structure • soldering • Subculture • Suggestion • Surveillance • Technology • Technology and society • The Other Hand • unconference • Website • workplace • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19417-3 / 0691194173
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19417-2 / 9780691194172