Comments for Gender & Computing

Comment on Think Women Can’t Be….? Think Again! by Computing Tips

Computing Tips — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:03:32 +0000

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Comment on Old Grandma Hardcore by Maren

Maren — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:16:26 +0000

lol

Comment on Meta-analysis of gender and science research by Eszter

Eszter — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:12:00 +0000

thanks for the publicity
Good luck in Bremen!

Comment on Gapminder by Jill Walker Rettberg

Jill Walker Rettberg — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:41:24 +0000

Oooh, so beautiful! Thanks for the link!

Comment on Culture of the Information Age Conference by Hilde

Hilde — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:32:30 +0000

Hi Murad Ali,
I don’t have anything to do with organizing this conference, and unfortunately I don’t know more than what’s in their website. Maybe you can try to contact Milverton Wallace or Gy�rgyi R�tfalvi who are listed as authors of the conference call.
Hilde

Comment on Culture of the Information Age Conference by Murad Ali

Murad Ali — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:13:49 +0000

i am librarian as well as public relation officer in kohat university of science and technology pakistan .i am research scholar my topic of research is information management .kindly guide us about the conference
Murad Ali

Comment on I just need a muffin by Hilde

Hilde — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:10:54 +0000

Of course you get to read the article. It will be out in an anthology about world or warcraft research. Will tell more about it soon

Comment on I just need a muffin by Breena Ronan

Breena Ronan — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:21:24 +0000

LOL! I had a pumpkin muffin last year that was really good. Now that it’s fall again I keep hoping to find another great pumpkin muffin. Do we get to read the article?

Comment on Women gamers by candace

candace — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:58:28 +0000

I saw this game at E3 2006 and walked right on by. Gross.

Comment on Women gamers by Hilde

Hilde — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:40:01 +0000

Hehe. Yes, I’ve also heard stories about girls breaking the “rules” when playing with typical girls’ toys. That’s the way to go girls!
I read the Desperate Housewives game as being marketed towards adults, those who have seen the TV series. And adult women have been recognised as a large and eager group of gamers in recent years.
I don’t really mean to say that every case of using traditional ways of seeing gender is bad. Girls and women are definitely not a homogenous group, and some probably feel at home within a traditional or stereotypical perception of gender.
But I still get this bad taste in my mouth from a game targeting women because they probably like being housewives. No matter how exciting lives the Desperate housewives live, the concept itself rather refers to the low/un-paid labour women have done for their family. You don’t have to go far back in time before it was expected that women would quit their job or education when they got married, to stay home and act as proper housewives. Being a housewife has for a lot of women been either a barrier to a professional life, or it adds to it, giving many women a double workload.