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Course name
Gendered Techno Culture
Institution
CSUF
Instructor
Anelise Hanson Shrout
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
WGST
Course dates
2017-08-21 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-12-16 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
33


Two premises inform this class: Technologies have histories. Technologies are gendered.

Historians of science and practitioners of technology studies have recently begun to explore technology’s past. They have demonstrated that personal Computers did not spring, fully formed, from the technological ether; that the internet descends from telegraph lines and that camera phones were preceded by daguerreotypes. In other words, technologies are not timeless. They have histories.

At the same time, scholars of gender and sexuality studies have reminded us that understanding gender is integral to understanding the development of tech. They show us how Alan Turing’s sexuality intersected with his experiences of code-breaking technology; how expectations about masculine forms impacted the genesis of robotics and how women’s labor was essential to the development of early computing.

This class brings together these two disciplinary approaches. In the process, students will become acquainted with foundational texts in the history of science, technology studies and gender and sexuality studies.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Alylope123 Jane Austen in popular culture, Hidden Figures
Magically.pink Gender differences in social network service use
Jeronimoflores Protagonist
Kylierogersk27 Silicon valley
19lunaa Women in the military
Throwerjasmine Technology and society
Shrouta42
Rachelmg Science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Mychan1568 Laurie Glimcher
Truyen kim nguyen Women in computing
MechelleCabral
Caterjean Google's Ideological Echo Chamber
Alyson Lopez BlogHer
Alexischiribao Pink-collar worker
Laurenbautista Computer Engineer Barbie
Michellekozai Gender reveal
Keilahann Amelia Earhart
Evenezia Riot grrrl
Michelleeurquizaa Matilda effect
Kylea21 Google
VanessaRodriguez Scientific Revolution
Julianoel Dress code
Bobadilla97 Motherhood penalty
NickyHenson Protagonist
Mariagdelgado Biological determinism of human gender roles
Kikinunez Women in STEM fields
Qetuowryipadgjlsfhkzcbmxvn Predictive policing
Isabel1015 Social construction of gender
Mmarucut Washing machine, Patrick Nagel
Alfonsoivcuadra Industrial Workers of the World
Guerrero762 Emily Graslie
Leilanitran1 Motherhood penalty
Mirandaujkic
Victoria hedger Matilda effect

Timeline

Week 3

Course meetings
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia project

Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


Assignment - Getting started on Wikipedia
  •  Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.) 
  •  It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade. 
  •  When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page. 
  • Finally, select the article you will be working with for this project (only one article/student)


Assignment - Evaluating a Wikipedia article

 It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page. 


  • Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
  •  Create a section in your sandbox titled "Article evaluation" where you'll leave notes about your observations and learnings. 
  • Read and evaluate the article you chose. As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these): 
    • Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
    • Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
    • Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
    • Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
    •  Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? 
    • Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
    •  Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? 
    • How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
    • How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
  •  Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:46, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 11 September 2017   |   Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Assignment - Copyediting a Wikipedia Article

First, review your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.  Pay particular attention to pages 8 and 9.

Second, read through it, doing an article evaluation like you learned last week. While you read, think about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article. 

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 18 September 2017   |   Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Assignment - Addding to a Wikipedia article

Continue to familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding (1) a citation and (2) a substantial paragraph to an article. 

There are two ways you can add a citation:

  • Add 1-2 sentences to a course-related article, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
  •  The Citation Hunt tool shows unreferenced statements from articles. First, evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement. 

There are several ways you can go about adding a substantial paragraph:

  • Identify a gap in the article that requires expansion.
  • At a minimum, you should add 2-5 sentences backed up to 2 citations

As you are getting started on this assignment, I would recommend following these steps:

  1. Look over my notes from your article assessment.  
  2. Go over the readings so far.  Identify important theories or concepts that help us to better understand the intersection of gender and technology.
  3. Using your assessment, my notes, and these theories, come up with a plan for one important idea that you think needs to be incorporated into your article.  
  4. Write out your one important idea in a paragraph of 2-5 sentences, with citations.
  5. Read over your article again - where does this idea best fit?
  6. Insert your idea into your article.  Do light editing to make sure that the paragraph makes sense within the article.