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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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
There are several ways you can go about adding a substantial paragraph:
As you are getting started on this assignment, I would recommend following these steps:
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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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
There are several ways you can go about adding a substantial paragraph:
As you are getting started on this assignment, I would recommend following these steps: