The British Ruby Conference was canceled andrewnez2012brc][ after the composition of the speakers list, 100% white men, was noted and discussed on twitter Susser2012nsl][. The …

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Dawn Nafus has published an excellent paper entitled “Patches Don’t Have Gender”: What is not Open in Open Source Software. When I read it …

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In Nafus’ piece on Patches Don’t Have Gender there is a statement that initially puzzled me. Nafus writes:

New programming languages similarly proliferate at …

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I recently encountered Beth Andres-Beck’s (2012) interesting note asking is reading the Internet convincing women not to study computer science? I find her affirmative …

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Legal scholars have a saying that hard cases (i.e., unusual/confused) make bad law (i.e., legal decisions). The recent lead in a story …

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The International Journal of Communication has published Lauren Rhue’s and my paper on “Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica”. The method of crawling the …

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As part of the fellows program at the Berkman Center this semester is a weekly discussion period that has the theme of Web Exceptionalism, the …

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A possible insight applicable to the FOSS and sexism controversies is the incompatibility of two worldviews.

In the first view, one aspires to a post- …

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The announcement of a “WikiChix” list for female only discussion has prompted a huge thread on WikiEN-l. As previously seen in discussion about an administrator …

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