Hacking Diversity : The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures / by Christina Dunbar-Hester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976- Author.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture and technology.

Princeton studies in culture and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Open source software--Social aspects.

Open source software.

Computers and women.

Hacktivism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691194172

0691194173

OCLC:

1138490745