Our colleagues in the Media School are hosting a graduate student conference which promises to help graduate students establish a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or trandisciplinary community space. We are looking forward to participate! Please note that the CFP has a quick …
Read moreWomen in Engineering
This week in my Technology & Gender seminar, we read and discussed Ruth Oldenziel’s Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945. As a complementary exercise, I had my students analyze a set of primary source …
Read moreAnother Big Step for E-Sports and Higher Learning
The appeal of E-Sports (electronic sports) has continued to gain massive appeal as being a spectator sport from holding large tournaments at massive stadiums to the broadcasting of tournaments live on television. The barrier of E-Sports being sponsored, let alone …
Read moreTechnology & Gender
Yesterday was the first meeting of my graduate seminar on Technology & Gender (for a full syllabus and bibliography on women in computing, see the course Github). Since this course has a strong historical component — and because we …
Read morePressing Start on a New Beginning
Graduate Student Experience: Oscar Lemus
1st year PhD student in CCS & HCI/D
Ever since arriving at the School of Informatics and Computing, the faculty, staff, and students have made me feel extremely welcomed. This is a place where the concept of community is fostered …
Read moreMistakes were Made
Professor Eden Medina will be giving the Keynote address at the forthcoming conference at New York University:
… Read moreIt’s an old adage that journalists write the first draft of history, and historians compose the second. But what happens after that? Now
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
On March 7, 2016 Professor Nathan Ensmenger will be hosting a screening of the film CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap at the IU Cinema. The CODE documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the …
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