[SIGCIS-Members] SIGCIS: gender, race, working class history, imperialism....

[Irish, Sharon Lee]

Hello, 
This is a great suggestion, Bernard. Light¹s article is already listed.
If it is okay, I will put the call out on the FemTechNet listserv and
perhaps some students and faculty in our collective will also contribute.
The volume edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow, Race after the Internet
(Routledge 2011) includes four essays in part one on the history of race
and information. George Dyson¹s Turing's Cathedral (2012) actually has a
lot about the women involved in scientific computing.

Sharon Irish
Co-Facilitator, FemTechNet

On 9/9/14, 5:42 AM, "geoghegb at cms.hu-berlin.de"
<geoghegb at cms.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>Hi SIGCIS,
>
>One of the surprising accusations surrounding this email nonsense was that
>SIGCIS promoted racism, gender bias, and industrial domination. I was
>curious enough to visit our website and see where we address these topics
>in the history of informatics. It seems that on
>http://www.sigcis.org/resources we have not addressed  issues like race,
>gender, sexuality, and working class history in informatics. Given the
>rich range of other resources we offer along these lines, I think a few
>subsections in these areas would be worthwhile. If the group approves of
>adding these resources, topics and authors that may be germane include
>
>1) Gender and Computing (Hayles on the Turing Test in POSTHUMAN, Haraway
>misc., Stone on Lovelace, Light on "When Computers were Women")
>2) A People's History of Computing (Robins & Webster on "Long History of
>the Information Revolution", Schaffer on "Babbage's Intelligence"?)
>
>If there is interest in putting something like this together and putting
>it up as resources, maybe we can bounce the email back and forth, quoting
>and amending the brief list above to quickly generate something better.
>
>Best,
>Bernard
>
>
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