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Hacking Diversity

Christina Dunbar-Hester

2019280 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2019
first published
  • 2019Princeton University Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780691194172
  • 2020Princeton University Press · 280 pages · ENGISBN 9780691182070
  • 2019Princeton University Press · 288 pagesISBN 9780691192888

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 Diversity* investigates 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.

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