Joseph Reagle released his new paper - "Free as in sexist?" Free culture
and the gender gap.
Abstract:
Despite the values of freedom and openness, the free culture movement's
gender balance is as skewed (or more so) as that of the computing
culture from which it arose. Based on the collection and analysis of
discourse on gender and sexism within this movement over a six--year
period. I suggest three possible causes: (a) some geek identities can be
narrow and unappealing; (b) open communities are especially susceptible
to difficult people; and, (c) the ideas of freedom and openness can be
used to dismiss concerns and rationalize the gender gap as a matter of
preference and choice.
Find it here:
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381
Lots of talk about Wikipedia, and a few familiar names cited in it (Kat
Walsh, Sue, SlimVirgin, among others).
-Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
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