Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-15 Thread Alolita Sharma
Sarah Thanks for sharing this paper by J Reagle - very insightful. Alolita On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Valerie Aurora wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote: >> On 01/10/2013 10:04 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: >>> >>> (I do realize that Asperger's and other afflicti

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-14 Thread Valerie Aurora
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On 01/10/2013 10:04 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: >> >> (I do realize that Asperger's and other afflictions along the autism >> spectrum are supposed to be somewhat gender-linked.) > > > As I mentioned to Mike off-list, in earlier drafts I

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-11 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote: > That said, something that affected my thinking on the geek/autism/gender > issue was that the differences between genders might not be as great as we > originally thought, or, it's more complicated than we thought. Recommended > intervention

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-11 Thread Joseph Reagle
On 01/10/2013 10:04 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: (I do realize that Asperger's and other afflictions along the autism spectrum are supposed to be somewhat gender-linked.) As I mentioned to Mike off-list, in earlier drafts I actually do mention that I was the typical computer obsessed nerd -

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-10 Thread Emily Monroe
> > (I do realize that Asperger's and other afflictions along the autism spectrum > are supposed to be somewhat gender-linked.) Just as clarification: As someone who has atypically-manifesting autism, I participate in an internet community for people who are in various points of having, needing,

Re: [Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-10 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: > Joseph Reagle released his new paper - "Free as in sexist?" Free culture and > the gender gap. > Lots of talk about Wikipedia, and a few familiar names cited in it (Kat > Walsh, Sue, SlimVirgin, among others). Did you ever encounter the hy

[Gendergap] Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle

2013-01-10 Thread Sarah Stierch
Joseph Reagle released his new paper - "Free as in sexist?" Free culture and the gender gap. Abstract: Despite the values of freedom and openness, the free culture movement's gender balance is as skewed (or more so) as that of the computing culture from which it arose. Based on the collection