Code as Code: Speculations on Diversity, Inequity, and Digital Women
Sharon L. Comstock, Jerica Copeny, Cynthia Leanne Landrum · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2015
All technologies are social. Taking this socio-technological position becomes less a political stance as a necessity when considering the lived experience of digital inequity, divides, and –isms as they are encountered in every-day library work spheres. Personal experience as women and women of color in our respective technological and leadership communities provides both fore- and background to explore the private-public lines delineating definitions of “diversity”, “inequity”, and digital literacies in library practice. We suggest that by not probing these definitions at the most personal level of lived experience, we in the LIS and technology professions will remain well-intentioned, but ineffective, in genuine inclusion.