A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities
Hacking, 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 "hacks" of projects and cultures--can ameliorate some of the "bugs" within their own communities, these methods come up short for issues of unequal social and economic power. Distributing "diversity" 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.
Автор: Bankoff Greg Название: Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines ISBN: 1138879266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138879263 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores the relationship between environment and culture in the contemporary Philippines. The book will be of interest to those engaged in relief policy and administration in developing countries.
Автор: Michele Grossman Название: Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity ISBN: 9042036443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042036444 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 148770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Winner of the 2015 ASAL Walter McCrae Russell AwardIndigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives – particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited – can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy.Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to ‘talk’ and ‘text’. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality–literacy ‘frontier’, and how modernity and the a-modern are productively entangled in the process.
A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities
Hacking, 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 "hacks" of projects and cultures--can ameliorate some of the "bugs" within their own communities, these methods come up short for issues of unequal social and economic power. Distributing "diversity" 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.
Название: Cultures, citizenship and human rights (open access) ISBN: 036718561X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367185619 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In this book the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation of migration and manifestations of belonging and citizenship.
Автор: Anheier Название: Cultures and Globalization ISBN: 1412934729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412934725 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 81310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This first volume in the five volume Cultures and Globalization series analyses conflicts and tensions: the cultural dimensions of conflict and the conflictual dimensions of culture.
Автор: Edited by Janet Carsten Название: Cultures of Relatedness ISBN: 0521656273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521656276 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 48570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Anthropologists discuss changing ideas of relatedness, transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements, gender relations and new reproductive technologies. We can no longer assume that fundamental social relationships are grounded in `biology` or `nature`, and this brings into question received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.
Автор: Graeme Gooday, Steven Wilf Название: Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective ISBN: 1108475760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108475761 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 121440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Featuring contributors from a dozen countries, this comprehensive volume examines patenting through an interdisciplinary and global perspective. It reveals the persistent diversity of patent systems despite ongoing globalization projects and will appeal to historians of science and technology, policy experts, intellectual property lawyers, and economists alike.
Автор: Mishra, Smeeta Название: Digital cultures ISBN: 0367724987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367724986 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book showcases the fascinating ways in which we use our digital devices, social media platforms and apps by drawing upon academic research, everyday observations and a determination to challenge assumptions and hasty generalizations.
Автор: Fu Yuguang Название: Shamanic And Mythic Cultures Of Ethnic Peoples In Northern China ISBN: 0367654105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367654108 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 331760.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Based on first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author`s insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations, this ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region`s cultures.
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