Monday, June 23, 2014

To use is not to know - how coding literacy and presentation of Comp Sci information segments and divides society into elite gender-based control mechanisms

The new elite literacy, the new patriarchy, the ongoing societal misogyny - great article from Ma Jones, and stories from the AP on the lack of females in Computer Sci, tech, coding, and so on. This represents a major opportunity for inclusion, advancement, diversity, and better stuff - and people are actually doing things about it...

Mother Jones - Is Coding the New Literacy?

Monterey Herald - New Push to get Girls into Comp Sci