We analyzed in-game content from titles released between 1983 and 2014 (n= 571)
featuring playable female characters. Results indicate that sexualization has diminished …

The pessimistic scenario for 'women in information communications technology'and for
'women in technology'generally is even more paradoxical and insidious with respect to …

How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium,
using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Aside from the …

Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, male computer experts were able to successfully
transform the “routine and mechanical”(and therefore feminized) activity of computer …

How the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been
transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from …

How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced
public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly changing world, we rely upon experts to …

Social Science research on science careers tends to focus on gender as the primary
mechanism affecting which people enter and succeed in science. Despite the often narrow …

Why is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men
continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a …

The cultural rise of “big data” in the recent years has pressured a number of occupations to
make an epistemological shift toward data-driven science. Though expressed as a …

In this article, I review the literature on race and racism in tech work and show that
challenges related to increasing diversity and inclusion for racial and ethnic minorities are …