Dear All,


Caitlin, I look forward to seeing what you come up with! Following up on Elinor, Chun's first book on "Control and Freedom" also touches on the gendered language male and female ports, etc. I think Avital Ronell touched on similar topics in a discussion of switchboards and operators in the telephone system--an important source for a lot of informatic metaphors and techniques. I saw it in one of Ronell's essays leading up to her "Telephone Book," but the exact citation slips my mind. Dr. Emily Goodmann <emily.goodmann@gmail.com> -- on this listserv? -- knows a whole lot more about that literature, maybe she'll pipe in!


Best,

b


On 5/23/17 2:19 PM, Elinor Carmi wrote:

Hi Caitlin,


Wendy Hui Kyong Chun has something in relation to this in her article - On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge.


You can find it here -> http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/1526381043320741?journalCode=grey                                 


All the best,

Elinor Carmi,
Ph.D. Candidate and Visiting Lecturer,
Department of Media & Communications,
Goldsmiths, University of London.
Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] History of gendered terms, e.g., "motherboard"
 
Dear all,
Do you know of any studies of gendered language in computing? I’m intrigued by the way today’s engineers throw around words like “motherboard” and “daughterboard”, and also “master” and “slave”, without being aware of how those words sound to non-engineers (like me). I’d be interested in learning about historical or sociological studies. 

Thank you!

All the best,
Caitlin Wylie 
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Assistant Professor
Program in Science, Technology and Society
University of Virginia



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