The actress and founder of her namesake Institute on Gender in Media cites data showing that there are three male characters for every speaking female in family-rated films: “We are in effect…

The cybersecurity industry needs more women, Morphisec's Netta Schmeidler says in a guest article. Their diverse voices, viewpoints and opinions help drive innovation, improvement and resilience.

Sasha Ariel Alston wants to see more diversity in STEM fields.

Her long journey from feminist icon to damsel in distress, and back again.

The movie adds to a centuries-long tradition of depicting men as tech’s string-pullers. But women started subverting this narrative before it even took hold.

Building upon existing scholarship on media representation of hackers and the social history of personal computing, this essay positions U.S. families making sense of microcomputers in the mid-1980s as central to the history of hacking. Archival material for this project consists of 74 issues of youth- and family-focused computing magazines of this era, within which discussions of hacking were frequent. This essay maps an array of discourses about young hackers constructed in relation to hopes and anxieties about networked technologies. Besides connecting microcomputers to particular family ideals, these magazines also put forth a family-friendly notion of youth hackers. While microcomputers entered the home with notions of hacking attached, I argue that family computing in turn shaped contemporary conceptions of hacking.

I really should know better, but I clicked on a link to the DC message boards, topic of the new Frank Miller cover. In summary... this is why I’m going to stay way the hell over here okay thanks. However, one exchange did catch my attention and would not let me shake it as it might have a sane…

The gender gap on Wikipedia is well-documented — 90 percent of editors and writers identify as men, according to internal surveys. But there’s a growing movement working to correct the imbalance.

Xiaomi’s new Mi Band 2 has a slight design flaw. It doesn’t care about black people.

by Amber Thomas Women only said 27% of the words in 2016’s biggest movies.Image by: AnimoplexMovie trailers in 2016 promised viewers so many strong female characters. Jyn Erso. Dory. Harley Quinn. Judy Hopps. Wonder Woman. I felt like this could be the year for gender equality in Hollywood’

A whirlwind tour of boybands, conspiracy theories, fake identities, appalling statistical method, and what it might teach us about the future of our industry.

Abstract: It is important to understand the content of media, as media can promote stereotypes that communicate what gender roles, appearances, and acts of violence are acceptable in society. This content analysis of 147 superheroes in 80 movies found that male heroes appeared much more frequently than female heroes. Females were more likely to work in … Continue reading Gender Differences in Movie Superheroes’ Roles, Appearances, and Violence →

His work was shouted out in the latest Marvel Netflix series.

Attempts to diversify lily-white kid lit have been, well, complicated.

Last week I was preparing a talk about instructional technology in the modern university and I wanted to illustrate how IT can make a large lecture hall feel like a small seminar. I wanted  to crea…

Today in honour of James Tiptree, Jr.’s birthday I’m publishing my guest of honour speech from this year’s WisCon. WisCon is the longest-running feminist science fiction convention in the world. It’s an amazing con. My fellow guests of honour, Nalo Hopkinson and Sofia Samatar, will also be publishing their speeches. Both speeches are amazing. Check […]