"[T]here is a problem of scale for voluntaristic technologists hoping to reframe power relations. Part of the issue is that DIY interventions are insufficient to take on structural social problems...."
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Hacking Diversity
The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
by Christina Dunbar-Hester
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Hacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia. Hacking Diversity investigates the activists engaged in free and open-source software to understand why, despite their efforts, they fail to achieve the diversity that their ideals support.
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Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
2020, Princeton University Press
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Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Dec 10, 2019, Princeton University Press
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Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
2019, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. History, Heresy, Hacking
Chapter 3. To Fork or Not to Fork: Hacking and Infrastructures of Care
Chapter 4. Crafting and Critique: Artifactual and Symbolic Outputs of Diversity Advocacy
Chapter 5. Working Imaginaries: "Freedom from Jobs" or Learning to Love to Labor?
Chapter 6. The Conscience of a (Feminist) Hacker: Political Stances within Diversity Advocacy
Chapter 7. Putting Lipstick on a GNU? Representation and Its Discontents
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Overcoming Diversity
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