Women in Data
March 27, 2019
The second in the inaugural series on "People in Data"
Overview
Cultural feminists and feminist philosophers have, since the 1990s, troubled the meaning of woman as a postmodern subject in order to make space for women as new subjects of study (Alcoff 1988; Stacey 1988; Mohanty 1991; Barad 2003). With such troubling comes the useful question of where historians should look for women’s performances, what data-driven methodologies might illuminate them, and whether certain disciplinary frameworks can get in the way of digital discovery. Digital Scholars co-hosted a webinar and host a follow-up discussion on the broad topic of “Women in Data,” extending the critical dilemma of how to position women as representative subjects toward a greater consideration of women as ethical data scientists and agents.
The webinar was the second in an inaugural series on “People in Data,” co-hosted by Digital Scholars and the Demos Project, and open to any members of the FSU, FAMU, and TCC communities, as well as greater Tallahassee, the state of Florida, and beyond.
Details
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 – 3:30-4:45 p.m. EDT
- Lauren Klein, Georgia Technological U
- Sadie St. Lawrence, Women in Data (WIDusa.com)
Advanced Reading or Browsing
Webinar participants were invited to read and/or browse the following in advance of the webinar and the discussion:
- Criado-Perez, Caroline (2019). “The deadly truth about a world built for men,” The Guardian. February 23.
- D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren Klein (2019). “Introduction” and “Chapter Three: What Gets Counted,” in Data Feminism, MIT Press.
- Nines: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online
- Thompson, Clive (2019). “The Secret History of Women in Coding,” The New York Times Magazine. February 19.
- Women in Data USA
- The Women Writers Project and Women Writers Online (free access during March 2019)