Cracking the Bro Code

Carrigan, Coleen

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-09
  • 售價: $1,590
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,511
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 206
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547058
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547055
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商品描述

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice.

Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in contemporary computing cultures theorized through the analytical frame of the "Bro Code." Drawing from feminist anthropology and STS, Coleen Carrigan shares in this book the direct experiences of women, nonbinary individuals, and people of color, including her own experiences in tech, to show that computing has a serious cultural problem. From senior leaders in the field to undergraduates in their first year of college, participants consistently report how sexism and harassment manifest themselves in computing via values, norms, behaviors, evaluations, and policies. While other STEM fields are making strides in recruiting, retaining, and respecting women workers, computing fails year after year to do so.

Carrigan connects altruism, computing, race, and gender to advance the theory that social purpose is an important factor to consider in working toward gender equity in computing. Further, she argues that transforming computing culture from hostile to welcoming has the potential to change not only who produces computing technology but also the core values of its production, with possible impacts on social applications. Cracking the Bro Code explains how digital bosses have come to operate imperiously in our society, dodging taxes and oversight, and how some programmers who look like them are enchanted with a sense of divine right. In the context of computing's powerful influence on the world, Carrigan speculates on how the cultural mechanisms sustaining sexism, harassment, and technocracy in computing workspaces impact both those harmed by such violence as well as society at large.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「為什麼在計算機領域中,主導種族和性別群體能夠優先獲得工作機會,以及女性主義勞工運動如何將計算機文化轉變為一股服務於民主和社會正義的力量。」《破解兄弟代碼》是一本大膽的民族志研究,通過「兄弟代碼」的分析框架,理論化了當代計算機文化中的性別歧視和種族主義問題。科琳·卡里根(Coleen Carrigan)在這本書中分享了女性、非二元性別人士和有色人種的直接經歷,包括她自己在科技領域的經歷,以顯示計算機領域存在嚴重的文化問題。從該領域的高級領導者到大學一年級的本科生,參與者一致報告說,性別歧視和騷擾通過價值觀、規範、行為、評估和政策在計算機領域中表現出來。儘管其他STEM領域在招聘、留住和尊重女性工作者方面取得了進展,但計算機領域每年都未能做到這一點。卡里根將利他主義、計算機、種族和性別聯繫起來,以推進社會目的在追求計算機性別平等方面的重要性理論。此外,她認為將計算機文化從敵對轉變為友好有可能不僅改變誰生產計算機技術,還可能對其生產的核心價值觀產生影響,對社會應用產生可能的影響。《破解兄弟代碼》解釋了數字老闆如何在我們的社會中傲慢地運作,逃避稅收和監管,以及一些看起來像他們的程序員如何被一種神聖權利感所迷惑。在計算機對世界的強大影響下,卡里根推測在計算機工作空間中維持性別歧視、騷擾和技術專制的文化機制如何影響受到暴力傷害的人以及整個社會。

作者簡介

Coleen Carrigan is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. A recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, Carrigan investigates the intersections of gender, race, and social values in computing. She was a senior manager in the high-tech industry before on-ramping into academia.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Coleen Carrigan是弗吉尼亞大學工程與社會學系科技與社會副教授。她是國家科學基金會教職早期發展(CAREER)獎的獲獎者,研究計算機領域中性別、種族和社會價值的交叉點。在進入學術界之前,她曾在高科技行業擔任高級經理職位。