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Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice. Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in contemporary computing cultures theorized through the analytical frame of the “Bro Code.” Drawing from feminist anthropology and STS, Coleen Carrigan shares in this book the direct experiences of women, nonbinary individuals, and people of color, including her own experiences in tech, to show that computing has a serious cultural problem. From senior leaders in the field to undergraduates in their fir...
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Lehre und Lehrentwicklung an Hochschulen haben in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren einen großen Entwicklungsschub erfahren. Die Verabschiedung des Vizepräsidenten für Studium und Lehre Professor Dr. med. Wolfgang Huhn in den Ruhestand ist Anlass für die Fachhochschule Kiel, seinen Einsatz durch diesen Festschriftband zu würdigen und kürzlich umgesetzte sowie aktuelle Lehr- und Hochschulentwicklungsvorhaben zusammenzutragen. Dazu zählen z.B. strukturelle Entwicklungen wie die Systemakkreditierung und in diesem Zusammenhang eingeführte Instrumente der Qualitätsentwicklung wie auch die Gründung des Zentrums für Lernen und Lehrentwicklung, das die Lehrenden bei der Studiengangs- und ...
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This book provides a critical and historical perspective on the ways concepts of 'gender' and 'engineering' have been socially constructed and the relationship to the masculinist image of engineering that has endured over time. To alter this situation, the authors in this volume propose that the focus of analyses move from the under-representation of women in engineering to an investigation of the more relational concept of gender and how gender and gender relations are embedded in the entire engineering enterprise. This book is meant for anyone who recognizes the need to rebel against gender norms and binaries if engineering is to realize its potential as a more inclusive and socially transformative project.
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