This week the class decided to discuss gender, race, ethnicity and other identity categories. Who feels included or excluded, and why?
Readings
- Agosto, “Girls and Gaming,” Teacher Librarian 31, no 3 (2004)
- Bailey, “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2011)
- Glasner, “Internet’s Gender Gap Narrows,” Wired (Mar 21, 2006)
- Kolowich, “The Academic Twitterazzi,” Inside Higher Ed (Oct 2, 2012)
- Lepore, “Where Are All the Women in Digital Media?” The Grindstone (Nov 1, 2011)
- Museums Association, “Ethical Debate: Inclusion” (n.d.)
- Nakamura, “Race In/For Cyberspace” (2000)
- Nowviskie, “What Do Girls Dig?” (Apr 7, 2011)
- Nowviskie, “Don’t Circle the Wagons,” (Mar 4, 2012)
- Posner, “Some Things to Think About Before Exhorting Everyone to Code,” (Feb 29, 2012)
- Rabasca, “The Internet and Computer Games Reinforce the Gender Gap,” American Psychological Association (Oct 2000)
- Shwayder, “One-Third of World’s Population Using Internet, Developing Nations Showing Biggest Gains,” International Business Times (Sep 24, 2012)
- TressieMC, “Black, Female, Thinking Out Loud & #Twittergate,” (Oct 5, 2012)
Examples to Consider
- Project Access
- Project Access Videos (Guggenheim, MOMA)
- Arts Access Aotearoa (Arts for All: Opening Doors to Disabled People)
William J Turkel 