[Air-L] nerd culture and new media

[Kim De Vries]

I've just been reading a great book called _Cyberfeminism in Northern
Lights_ from Cambridge Scholars Press, which is an edited collection of
essays about women and tech in Scandinavian countries. (a review will come
out in the European Journal of Cultural studies soon)

It's especially interesting to see how gender stereotypes are still so
strong even in countries with national programs to enforce gender equity in
a variety of ways, and also the effects of country-specific factors, like
parental leave policies.

Best,

Kim

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Meryl Krieger <meryl.krieger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Message-ID: <09B29B8B-B795-45AD-B832-FF2A387B3FB1 at Uvm.Edu>
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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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Kim De Vries

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