Diversity in Computer Science: Design Artefacts for Equity and Inclusion

✍ Scribed by Pernille Bjørn, Maria Menendez-Blanco, Valeria Borsotti

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 139
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This is an open access book that covers the complete set of experiences and results of the FemTech.dk research which we have had conducted between 2016-2021 – from initiate idea to societal communication.

Diversity in Computer Science: Design Artefacts for Equity and Inclusion presents and documents the principles, results, and learnings behind the research initiative FemTech.dk, which was created in 2016 and continues today as an important part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen’s strategic development for years to come. FemTech.dk was created in 2016 to engage with research within gender and diversity and to explore the role of gender equity as part of digital technology design and development. FemTech.dk considers how and why computer science as a field and profession in Denmark has such a distinct unbalanced gender representation in the 21st century.
This book is also the story of how we (the authors) as computer science researchers embarked on a journey to engage with a new research field – equity and gender in computing – about which we had only sporadic knowledge when we began. We refer here to equity and gender in computing as a research field – but in reality, this research field is a multiplicity of entangled paths, concepts, and directions that forms important and critical insights about society, gender, politics, and infrastructures which are published in different venues and often have very different sets of criteria, values, and assumptions. Thus, part of our journey is also to learn and engage with all these different streams of research, concepts, and theoretical approaches and, through these engagements, to identify and develop our own theoretical platform, which has a foundation in our research backgrounds in Human–Computer Interaction broadly – and Interaction Design & Computer Supported Cooperative Work specifically.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
How to Read This Book
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Authors
Chapter 1: The State of Diversity in Computer Science in 2022
Three Pioneer Women in Computer Science in Denmark
Lack of Diversity: PhD Degrees & PhD Supervisors
The Privilege of PhD Supervision
Gender Distribution of PhD Supervisors
Slow Change 2015–2022
Chapter 2: FemTech.dk Research Initiative
FemTech’s Initial Focus on Bachelor’s and Master’s Students
FemTech.dk Is About Research, Not Recruiting
FemTech as Long-Term Endeavor
Chapter 3: Interventionist Research
Scandinavian Participatory Design & Action Research
Computer Science Is Not Male – It Was Made Male
Our Interventionist Agenda
Our Role as Researchers
Chapter 4: Makerspace Methodologies & Design Principles
Makerspace Methodologies
UPCH Makerspace as a Concept
Concrete Interventions
The Four FemTech Design Principles
Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions
Producing Alternative Narratives
Embedding Storytelling
Allowing for Interactive Opportunities
Chapter 5: Cyberbear & Cryptosphere: Sociomaterial-Design, Social Belonging, and Gender Representations
The FemTech Workshops
Event Design
FemTech Artefacts
Cyberbear Design
Cryptosphere Design
FemTech.dk Online
Documenting and Learning from the FemTech Workshops
Computer Science Was Not for Me
Computer Science Might Be for Me?
I Am a Computer Scientist
Embracing Alternative Agendas
Chapter 6: GRACE: Designing Sociomaterial Assemblages Unpacking Gender Equity in Computing
Sociomaterial-Design
GRACE Design Process
GRACE as an Interactive Installation
GRACE Performance & Intervention, Copenhagen 2017
GRACE Performance & Intervention, Florida 2018
GRACE Performance & Intervention France 2019
GRACE as Intervention and Performance
Reconfigurable Core
Engaging People Through Encounters
Seamless Integration of Performance and Collecting Insights
Chapter 7: Equity & Inclusion
Technologies Have Embedded Politics, and It’s a Technical Problem
Diversity Dimensions and Equity Classification
Equity and Intersectionality
Cultural Taxation and the Imposter Phenomenon
Chapter 8: Organizational Change for Equity & Inclusion
Empowering People Considering Multiple Diversity Dimensions
Diversifying Computer Science Stereotypes
Equity Mainstreaming
Chapter 9: Final Reflections
Misunderstanding FemTech
Saying No to Window Dressing
Mentoring and Bias Training Alone Will Not Foster Change
Equity Is About Real Opportunity and Building CVs
The Myth of Meritocracy
From Gender to Intersectionality
Beyond Celebration of ‘Women in Tech’ Events
Measurable Goals and Key Performance Indicators
References

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