https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/public/ recent bookmarks from guardiantech 2014-10-08T09:49:59+00:00 http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point guardiantechThe hater trolls are looking for their next dopamine hit. If you don’t provide it, they’ll try harder. But the escalation to get a response from you? That’s not even the worst escalation problem. The more dangerous social-web-fueled gamification of trolling is the unofficial troll/hate leader-board. The attacks on you are often less about scoring points against you than that they’re trying to out-do one another. They’re trying to out-troll, out-hate, out-awful the other trolls. That’s their ultimate goal. He who does the worst wins. Which may explain the slow, steady increase in both frequency and horror of online harassment. What was mostly drive-by nasty comments in 2001 then progressed to Photoshopped images (your child on a porn image is a particularly “fun” one), and what’s after images? Oh, yeah, the “beat up Anita” game. And what’s left when you’ve done as much digital damage as you can? Real-life damage.  It's an important essay, which has a simple offering for its solution: "be nice". Everyone's capable of it.]]> twitter gender feminism harassment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:33ff4131b7bb/ 2013-08-30T16:33:11+00:00 http://valleywag.gawker.com/this-is-why-there-arent-enough-women-in-tech-1221929631 guardiantechLast Friday, Valleywag published a post about the tech sector's increasing abuse of the term “culture fit” as a way to discriminate against potential hires who don't match the pattern of a successful startup employee. It prompted an outpouring of responses from readers about their own abysmal experiences with the euphemism. Must-read.]]> gender sexism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:3de89ef9c098/ 2013-04-07T19:37:43+00:00 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/06/misogyny-sexism-and-why-rps-isnt-shutting-up/ guardiantechIn having written about the subject of women and games over the years, I’ve received a significant amount of abuse. (I’m not going to fret about saying, “But of course not as bad as…”, because of course it’s not as bad as…) Most of the abuse I receive is lazy insults, and until recently I tended to assume them fairly innocuous. Some has been extreme, such as forum threads dedicated to associating my name with acts of child molestation to skew Google results, personal threats, and deeply personal insults. All of it has one purpose: to intimidate. Whether the purpose of the intimidation is because the person wants to read about new screenshots for a game and not gender politics, or because they are violently defending their privilege, it’s always about intimidation. Powerful must-read.]]> games gaming gender sexism misogyny rockpapershotgun https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:df54007f23fc/ 2013-03-08T22:48:09+00:00 http://moebio.com/research/wikipediagender/#popular guardiantech wikipedia gender https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:8445475fc10e/ 2012-03-23T06:22:42+00:00 http://www.dailydot.com/society/wikipedia-gender-gap-discussion/ guardiantechdemographics shows that 91% of its active editors are men, meaning just nine percent are women. In commemoration of Women's History Month, a group of Wikipedia editors – both male and female – had a frank, round-table discussion about how to make steps toward closing that gender gap. The chat was organised and written up by Sarah Stierch, a Wikimedia Community Fellow who aims to bring more women and women’s content to Wikipedia.]]> gender wikipedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:1c48068b5f8b/ 2012-01-13T00:47:44+00:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16533289 guardiantech ces2012 gender https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:647fd6ffefae/ 2011-07-29T05:56:48+00:00 http://www.fastcompany.com/1769217/there-are-no-secrets-from-twitter?partner=rss guardiantech
Gender-skewed words for men: "http" and "google". For women: "chocolate" and "husband", among many others. Can an algorithm stereotype? Then again, it's right about 75% of the time at present.]]> charlesarthur twitter gender https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:17e232c4ea3d/