How an online women in technology group provides a locus of opposition
| Autor: | Wendy DuBow, Alexis Kaminsky |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Group (mathematics)
business.industry Opposition (planets) Field (Bourdieu) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) 050301 education 050801 communication & media studies Public relations Women in computing Human-Computer Interaction 0508 media and communications Qualitative analysis Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Conversation Sociology business 0503 education General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Computers in Human Behavior. 98:285-293 |
| ISSN: | 0747-5632 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.006 |
| Popis: | This paper analyzes conversation threads from a closed Facebook group for women in computing. The dataset contains more than 13,000 posts and spans five years during which time the group greatly expanded in membership. Drawing on research about online forums as well as the research on obstacles and supports for women in computing, the authors use qualitative analysis and take a feminist perspective to show the various ways in which the group provides a locus of oppositional discourse. This discourse highlights the systemic nature of exclusionary practices in the computing field at the secondary and post-secondary levels, providing a way for group members to see past individual circumstances and, thereby, find ways to oppose the cultures in which they live, study and work. Understanding how this oppositional discourse serves women, a group sorely underrepresented in the field of computing, can help identify promising levers for making the culture of computing more inclusive. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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