Barriers-to-womens-involvement-in-hackspaces-and-makerspaces.pdf
▻http://access-space.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Barriers-to-womens-involvement-in-hackspaces-and-makerspaces.pdf
science grrl
▻http://sciencegrrl.co.uk/sheffield-chapter-launch
Abstract
This report uses interviews and - in the absence of a substantial body of empirical studies - existing informal research and media in order to elucidate the reasons underlying an observed gender-imbalance in the users of organisations known as hackspaces' and makerspaces’. We frame this phenomenon in the wider context of a similar imbalance in the number of girls and women pursuing study and careers in STEM and computing subjects, and the
benefits of achieving a more egalitarian community, for the
individual, the organisation, and society in general. We identify several distinct `barriers’ to engagement, and provide suggestions for possible solutions. In the absence of empirical research, we suggest that organisations wishing to make change to improve the gender-balance of their user base should do so with
caution and continuous feedback from their existing and target audiences in order to ensure enficacious change without disruption, and call for more research into this issue to verify or challenge the conclusions which we draw here."
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Is the “4th Wave” of Feminism Digital? | bluestockings magazine
▻http://bluestockingsmag.com/2013/08/19/is-the-4th-wave-of-feminism-digital
Today, digital media have reconfigured the face and interface of feminism. The activity and community of our blog, the diverse composition and vast readership of the feminist blog-o-sphere, and their interwoven and interdependent public influence attest to the vitality of feminism today. Overall, the participation in feminist activism and criticism has grown manifold due to the invention and popularization of digital media technologies. The decidedly digital feminism we engage in today operates quite differently than those of our former feminist predecessors. Every person who has some form of access to digital media technologies, whether limited or permanent, has the potential to engage in the various feminist communities that exist and persist today. A greater amount of people are presented with feminist issues in some form, from Facebook activity to smartphone ads, and their capacity to engage with them through digital platforms has significantly increased. Previous feminist activism and criticism was necessarily limited by the pre-digital forms of communication methods of attaining and sharing information but also by the lacking access to likely affiliates and allies that are imperative for the consciousness-raising of feminism’s individual struggles. Feminism has left the Academy and spilled into the world wide web. Today, one can Google the majority of concerns pertinent to feminism, thereafter learn of different communities already at work in comparable fields, possibly join their efforts via digital or live labor, and thus operate for and by a larger public. Feminism has changed; the practices of its feminists as well.
Gender Changers links
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