HTW Berlin

Computer Barbie

Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff
HTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4

AWE: Gender and Computing
Summer Term 2024

Tentative Schedule

All my schedules are tentative. The class meets Mondays 15.45-17.15 in C 537 .

Date
Topic
Reading
08.04.24 What is "Gender", anyway, and what does it have to do with Computing?
15.04.24 Gender and Search Machine Results
22.04.24 The Google Diversity Screed
29.04.24 Unlocking the Clubhouse
06.05.24 History of Women and Computing
  • Denise W. Gürer. (1995, January). Pioneering women in computer science. In Communications ACM 38(1), pp. 45–54.
  • Ute Hoffmann. (1987). Computerfrauen: Welchen Anteil haben Frauen an Computergeschichte u. -arbeit? Hampp.
13.05.24 Gender and Language


Only via Zoom

English

  • Bobbye Sorrels Persing. (1983). The Nonsexist Communicator - Solving the Problems of Gender and Awkwardness in Modern English. Prentice-Hall.
    Chapters 2 & 3

German

  • Luise Pusch. (1984). Das Deutsch als Männersprache: Aufsätze und Glossen zur feministischen Linguistik. Suhrkamp.
  • Gerd Brantenburg. (1980). Die Töchter Egalias: einen Roman über den Kampf der Geschlechter. Olle und Wolter.
  • Friederike Braun. (2000). Leitfaden zur geschlechtergerechten Formulierung: Mehr Frauen in die Sprache. Ministerium für justiz, Frauen, Jugend und Familie des Landes Schleswig-Holstein.
  • Ingrid Samel. (2017, October 27). Feminismus: Gleichberechtigung ist auch eine Frage der Sprache. In vorwärts.
  • Anatol Stefanowitsch @29C3: Sprache, Ungleicheit und Unfreiheit (video, 1:06:34)
20.05.24 Pentecost

27.05.24 Identity on the Net
03.06.24 Gender at Work
  • Sally Hacker. (1989). Pleasure, power, and technology: Some tales of gender, engineering, and the cooperative workplace. Routledge.
  • Harriet Rubin. (1998). The Princessa - Machiavelli for Women. Dell.
  • Lois P. Frankel. (2014). Nice Girls Still Don't Get the Corner Office. Business Plus.
10.06.24 Usability and Gender
17.06.24 Gender and Web-Site Design
24.06.24 The Culture of Hacking
  • Elin Kvande & Bente Rasmussen. (1994).
    Men in male-dominated organizations and their encounter with women intruders. In Scandinavian Journal of Management, 10(2), pp. 163–173.
  • Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders. (2006). She's such a geek. Seal Press.
  • Alexis Hope & Catherine D'Ignazio. (2014). Hacking the Breast Pump. MIT.
01.07.24 Non-binary Gender
08.07.24 Gender Bias on Wikipedia

Self-study only, no class! Unless we can find another time!
15.07.24 Data Feminism
  • Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein. (2020). Data Feminism. MIT Press.
22.07.24 Backlash
  • Susan Faludi. (1991). Backlash. Anchor Books.
  • WikiMANNia
  • Wikipedia contributors. (2024, March 29). Incel. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:11, April 1, 2024, from Page Version ID: 1216141803
29.07.24 De-Gendering Technology?
Papers must be handed in by now!

 

Other interesting material
 
Why are there so few female computer scientists: The view 20 and 30 years ago

Three older papers by Frances Grundy on gendering technology:



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