Hacking diversity : the politics of inclusion in open technology cultures / by Christina Dunbar-Hester.

Author
Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Description
xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series
Princeton studies in culture and technology [More in this series]
Summary note
"We regularly read and hear exhortations for women to take up positions in STEM. The call comes from both government and private corporate circles, and it also emanates from enthusiasts for free and open source software (FOSS), i.e. software that anyone is free to use, copy, study, and change in any way. Ironically, rate of participation in FOSS-related work is far lower than in other areas of computing. A 2002 European Union study showed that fewer than 2 percent of software developers in the FOSS world were women. How is it that an intellectual community of activists so open in principle to one and all -a community that prides itself for its enlightened politics and its commitment to social change - should have such a low rate of participation by women? This book is an ethnographic investigation of efforts to improve the diversity in software and hackerspace communities, with particular attention paid to gender diversity advocacy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • History, heresy, hacking
  • To fork or not to fork: hacking and infrastructures of care
  • Crafting and critique: artefactual and symbolic outputs of diversity advocacy
  • Working imaginaries: "freedom from jobs" or learning to love to labor?
  • The conscience of a (feminist) hacker: political stances within diversity advocacy
  • "Putting lipstick on a GNU?" representation and its discontents
  • Overcoming diversity : Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780691182070 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0691182078 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 9780691192888 (paperback : acid-free paper)
  • 069119288X (paperback : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2019019271
OCLC
1100447435
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