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A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities
Hacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia.Hacking Diversityinvestigates the activists engaged in free and open-source software to understand why, despite their efforts, they fail to achieve the diversity that their ideals support.
Christina Dunbar-Hester shows that within this well-meaning volunteer world, beyond the sway of human resource departments and equal opportunity legislation, members of underrepresented groups face unique challenges. She brings together more than five years of firsthand research: attending software conferences and training events, working on message boards and listservs, and frequenting North American hackerspaces. She explores who participates in voluntaristic technology cultures, to what ends, and with what consequences. Digging deep into the fundamental assumptions underpinning STEM-oriented societies, Dunbar-Hester demonstrates that while the preferred solutions of tech enthusiasts--their hacks of projects and cultures--can ameliorate some of the bugs within their own communities, these methods come up short for issues of unequal social and economic power. Distributing diversity in technical production is not equal to generating justice.
Hacking Diversityreframes questions of diversity advocacy to consider what interventions might appropriately broaden inclusion and participation in the hacking world and beyond.

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HACKING DIVERSITY

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Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology

Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer, series editors

This series presents innovative work that extends classic ethnographic methods and questions into areas of pressing interest in technology and economics. It explores the varied ways new technologies combine with older technologies and cultural understandings to shape novel forms of subjectivity, embodiment, knowledge, place, and community. By doing so, the series demonstrates the relevance of anthropological inquiry to emerging forms of digital culture in the broadest sense.

Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures by Christina Dunbar-Hester

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Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China by Priscilla Song

Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism by Christo Sims

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Hacking Diversity

The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures

Christina Dunbar-Hester

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINCETON AND OXFORD

Copyright 2020 by Princeton University Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976 author.

Title: Hacking diversity : the politics of inclusion in open technology cultures / by Christina Dunbar-Hester.

Description: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020] | Series: Princeton studies in culture and technology | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019019271| ISBN 9780691182070 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780691192888 (pbk. : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780691194172 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Hacktivism. | Computers and women. | Open source softwareSocial aspects. | Multiculturalism.

Classification: LCC HV6773 .D855 2020 | DDC 303.48/34dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019019271

Version 1.0

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Editorial: Fred Appel and Jenny Tan

Production Editorial: Natalie Baan

Production: Erin Suydam

Publicity: Nathalie Levine and Kathryn Stevens

CONTENTS
  1. vii
  2. ix
ILLUSTRATIONS
  1. Figures
  2. Table
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book has progressed from scattered thoughts to idea to research to writing and now to written, but Im sort of at a loss to explain how. I am quite sure I owe a lot to others. I am surrounded by communities of people engaging with our worlds, whose reflections and actions generate my own engagement and points of connection. The people whose activities are the basis for analysis in this book are due the most prominent recognition. My presenceas a stranger and analyst whose presence (let alone utility) in their midst was not immediately legiblehas been patiently and trustingly welcomed by a host of people, online and off. They generously offered me their time and candor, and sometimes opened up painful memories; I hope I have been able to do justice to their stories and efforts in these pages. It would be improper to name them, given ethnographic convention and the level of personal and professional sensitivity of some of this material, but I offer them my profoundest thanks.

In addition, I am humbled by the generosity and dazzling expertise of a company of scholars and friends without whom my work would literally not be possible (to say nothing of tolerable, let alone ever enjoyable). Biella Coleman has been an invaluable interlocutor since the beginning of this project, providing feedback both shrewd and gracious at critical moments, as has Chris Kelty. Laura Portwood-Stacer, always a generous and thoughtful sounding board, provided early listening and guidance throughout. I am especially indebted to constructive readers of chapter drafts and earlier iterations of this work: Steph Alarcn, Chris Anderson, Ron Eglash, Lucas Graves, Silvia Lindtner, Mike Palm, Luke Stark, and Sarah Myers West. The books analysis was further shaped through focused conversation, literature recommendations, stray comments, and everything in between from Mike Ananny, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Jonah Bossewitch, Jack Bratich, Paula Chakravartty, A. J. Christian, Kristina Clair, Chris Cskszentmihlyi, Nathan Ensmenger, Megan Finn, Laura Forlano, Ellen Foster, Mel Gregg, Seda Grses, DeeDee Halleck, Randy Illum, Natalie Jeremijenko, Dorothy Kidd, Ron Kline, Daniel Kreiss, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Deepa Kumar, Javier Lezaun, Manjari Mahajan, Charlton McIlwain, Mara Mills, Cyrus Mody, Lilly Nguyen, Wazhmah Osman, Victor Pickard, Joseph Reagle, Bryce Renninger, Carrie Rentschler, Alessandra Renzi, Adrienne Shaw, Christo Sims, Johan Sderberg, Jonathan Sterne, Tom Streeter, Sophie Toupin, Lee Vinsel, Cristina Visperas, Judy Wajcman, and Todd Wolfson. Dubious credit (but sincere gratitude) for the pun in the title of the books conclusion goes to Nick Seaver. I also thank my undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Southern California and Rutgers University who offered me the opportunity to work out some of my thoughts in conversation with them and shared theirs in return.

Fred Appel has been an engaged, rigorous, and enthusiastic editor. It has been a sincere pleasure to work with him. I am also profoundly grateful to my anonymous reviewers at Princeton University Press, and to the PUP staff, especially Jenny Tan, Natalie Baan, and Thalia Leaf, for their stellar assistance in bringing the book into being; Sarah McIntosh was an invaluable indexer. Research in progress has been presented at scholarly venues along the way, and I thank various audiences for productively critical feedback, including the University of Washington Information School, Oslo Metropolitan Universitys Work Research Institute, UCLA Information Studies Department, USC Digital Humanities Program, and the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. Josh Kun and Sarah Banet-Weiser at USC Annenberg helped me carve out time to work on this book at key stages in its development and completion. Crack research assistance was provided by Soledad Altrudi (who cheerfully logged several semesters on this project), as well as Hyun-Tae (Calvin) Kim, and Lin Zhang (and Fanny Ramirez at Rutgers). Also at USC, Annenberg colleagues showed kindness (and lent bicycles, may they rest in peace) as I was attempting to adjust to California, so thank you, Jonathan Aronson, Franois Bar, Willow Bay, Manuel Castells, Taj Frazier, Hernan Galperin, Larry Gross, Andrea Hollingshead, Henry Jenkins, Josh Kun, Carmen Lee, Mark Lloyd, Peggy McLaughlin, Lynn Miller, Gordon Stables, Alison Trope, Miki Turner, Dmitri Williams, and Ernie Wilson. Juan De Lara and Andy Lakoff have been delightful coconspirators. Special thanks to Hye Jin Lee for invitations to step off campus. ASCJ staff Ally Arguello, Jordan Gary, Sarah Holterman, Christine Lloreda, Raymond Marquez, Frank Miuccio, David Mora, and Billie Shotlow provided lots of help streamlining administrative matters large and small. At my former workplace, a campus exhibition called Trans Technology: Circuits of Culture, Self, and Belonging that I curated with Bryce Renninger in 201213 fed into this research in a few nonlinear ways, so I thank Bryce, Rutgerss Institute for Women and Art, and supportive former colleagues in Journalism & Media Studies and Womens and Gender Studies for that detour.

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