[Air-L] nerd culture and new media

[Meryl Krieger]

Where this gets interesting is that most of the good data on gender and
technology has come out of gender and the workplace studies; there's so much
apologizing for women being technologically sophisticated that we're still
dealing with reinforcement of gender norms and stereotypes. Anyone who's
interested, please feel free to contact me off-list as I've spent a decent
amount of time compiling a bibliography of this material - it's all in my
dissertation (forthcoming...).

Best regards to you all,

Meryl Krieger

Meryl Krieger
Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology (to post September 2008!)
Associate Instructor, Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University Bloomington
meryl.krieger at gmail.com
kriegerj at indiana.edu


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Suely Fragoso <suely at unisinos.br> wrote:

> As far as we (all) don't oblige the men to "perform (or overperform)
> their gender role" to validate whatever tendencies either...
>
> Sue
>
> >>> stuszyn at UTNet.UToledo.Edu 18/06/08 11:38 >>>
> I had a feeling that godawful Newsweek article was going to come up.
> Because it's only okay for women to be geeks/nerds/"fill in intellectual
> stereotype here" as long as they "sex it up" enough? grr.
>
> Broadsheet wrote about that article last week as well:
> http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/06/12/nerd_girls/index.html
>
> There's a big difference between being able to be yourself without
> suffering the repercussions and *having* to perform (or overperform)
> your gender role in order to validate or offset your non-conformist
> tendencies.
>
> Rar.
>
>
> Stephanie Tuszynski
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of Theatre and Film
> University of Toledo
>
>
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:26:56 -0400
> From: Steve Cavrak <Steve.Cavrak at Uvm.Edu>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] nerd culture and new media
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> A post on the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus points to a
> Newsweek story on "nerdchic," the follow up comments provide
> interesting reflections on the value of nerds and role models, etc.
>
>
> 'Nerd Girl' Group at Tufts U. Seeks to Challenge Stereotypes of
> Engineering
> June 16, 2008 | 4 comments
> http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3092/nerd-girl-group-at-
> tufts-u-seeks-to-challenge-stereotypes-of-engineering
>
> The latest issue of Newsweek features an article about?and plenty of
> glossy pictures of??Nerd Girls,? a student group at Tufts University.
> They group is working on building a solar car that they plan to drive
> around the country visiting schools and encouraging girls to pursue
> engineering?and making a documentary about their adventures. ?They?re
> ?Beauty and the Geek? all in one package!? says their Web site. ?
> Jeffrey R. Young
> Posted on Mon Jun 16, 03:25 PM | Permalink | Comment [4]
>
> [1] Revenge of the Nerdette, http://www.newsweek.com/id/140457
> "As geeks become chic in all levels of society, an unlikely subset is
> starting to roar. Meet the Nerd Girls: they're smart, they're techie
> and they're hot."
>
> [2] NerdGirls.org, http://www.nerdgirls.org/
>
>
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