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Hacking Diversity The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Author: Christina Dunbar-Hester
Year: 2020
Number of pages: 289
Format: PDF
File size: 10 MB
Language: ENG

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, 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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