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Diversity & Tech #26

Announcements Update to NYC Human Rights law: protections against height and weight discrimination Final assignments (drafts, peer review, presentation), word count, and extra credit have been added (in purple font) to the Final Gradesheet template. For feedback or guidance on your draft, reminder that you can schedule office hours with me before/after class, or on […]

Diversity & Tech #25

Announcements Microaggressions as mosquito bites (Fusion Comedy Video)Microaggressions Research Papers and More Good example of a brief, relevant positionality statement in a scholarly article: see this research article by Sue Lockyer, starting at the bottom of page 8. New items in the “Gender & Sexuality” and “Socioeconomic Status” sections of D&T Reading/Listening/Watching. Class will be on […]

D&T Extra Credit Opportunity: Probabilistically assign gender and race in your bibliography

This University of Maryland Libraries’ Research Guide on Citation Justice links to a Github repository of Python code to “probabilistically assign gender and race proportions of first/last authors pairs in bibliography entries.” Completing all the steps below can make up for 1 unexcused absence in D&T class (2023). DUE DATE: December 24 at 11:59pm

Diversity & Tech #24

Announcements Agenda Assignments Required: Go through your peers comments to revise/update your paper. We’ll do Round #2 of peer review next week, in different groups. Required: Add relevant a news item to D&T News Items 2023. Optional: Complete the Timed Exercise for 11/29, due Saturday night. For this exercise, you’ll need to read the entries for […]

Diversity & Tech #23

Announcements Citation Justice (related to this recent NYU Libraries course). Reviewing this research guide will help with the “balance of voices” Cultural Competence line item in the final grade sheet. Class on Wednesday (11/29) will be on Zoom. I’ll put the Zoom link on Brightspace after class. You don’t have to report to the classroom […]

Diversity & Tech #22 (November 20)

Announcements New items in Reading/Watching/Listening: Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) – also added to the D&T menu Additional notes: Agenda Assignment

Final Deadlines, Policies, EC Opportunities

Final Deadlines Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) Additional notes:

Diversity & Tech #21 (November 14)

Announcements New resource in Reading/Listening/Watching: Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Agenda Assignment

Diversity & Tech #20 (November 13)

Agenda Assignment

Diversity & Tech #19 (November 8)

Announcements Alluded to in the Introduction to Dominance by Design: the poem “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. Unless you prefer otherwise, Session #22 will be the final in-class Timed Exercise. They will be optional homework for Sessions #23-27. PLEASE NOTE: you must complete at least 22 exercises! Agenda Assignment