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Gender Week 8

Post ID: 3534407

Overview

I need help with Week 8 for my UCLA class (Gender Studies & History M180B). Please follow the syllabus instructions exactly.

WEEK 8 TOPIC:

How have workplace practices changed in computing, 1940–2020?

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

  1. Read about the film Hidden Figures and the African American women mathematicians who worked at NASA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

Read about:

  • Katherine Goble (Katherine Johnson)
  • Dorothy Vaughan
  • Mary Jackson
  1. Read about Safiya Umoja Noble (UCLA):

https://safiyaunoble.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safiya_Noble

Then read ONE of the following:

  • A chapter from Searching for Black Girls: Old Traditions in New Media (2012)
  • A chapter from Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018)
  • A chapter from The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online (2016)
  • OR another article by Safiya Noble
  1. Read about Sarah Roberts (UCLA):

https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/sarah-roberts/

Then read ONE of the following:

  • “Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers’ Dirty Work”
  • “Digital Detritus: Vulnerability, Bodies and Error in Social Media Moderation”
  • “Technological Elites: The Meritocracy and Their Post-Racial Myths”

I will attach any PDFs/articles I find.

WRITING ASSIGNMENT:

Write ONE response of approximately 500 words.

Use the same analytic review format used throughout the course.

Address the following:

  1. What are the shared topics, research questions, and hypotheses across these materials?

Examples:

  • Computing workplaces
  • Technology and inequality
  • Race and gender in computing
  • Hidden labor in technology
  • Power in digital systems
  1. What methods do the authors use?

Examples:

  • Historical research
  • Interviews
  • Ethnography
  • Media analysis
  • Case studies
  1. What analytical approaches do they use?

Examples:

  • Intersectionality
  • Critical race theory
  • Feminist analysis
  • Technology studies
  • Power and inequality
  1. Are their arguments convincing?

Discuss whether the evidence and methods support their conclusions.

  1. How does this work connect to the course?

Examples:

  • Knowledge production
  • Workplace cultures
  • Inclusion and exclusion
  • Gender, race, and power
  • STEM institutions

IMPORTANT:

  • Approximately 500 words total.
  • Do not simply summarize.
  • Compare and analyze the materials together.
  • Focus on workplace cultures in computing and technology.
  • Sound like a student, not a research paper.
  • Follow the same style used in Weeks 1–7.