{"id":476,"date":"2017-03-10T08:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:37:41","slug":"diversity-friendly-software-sxsw-2017-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/diversity-friendly-software-sxsw-2017-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity-friendly software at SXSW 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"a84b\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\"><a class=\"markup--user markup--p-user\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@digitalsista\" target=\"_blank\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@digitalsista\" data-anchor-type=\"2\" data-user-id=\"4b19e9d59e5e\" data-action-value=\"4b19e9d59e5e\" data-action=\"show-user-card\" data-action-type=\"hover\" rel=\"noopener\">Shireen Mitchell<\/a> and I talked about <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/schedule.sxsw.com\/2017\/events\/PP64597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/schedule.sxsw.com\/2017\/events\/PP64597\">Diversity-Friendly Software<\/a> at SXSW 2017. <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/208905804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/208905804\">Here\u2019s the video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/208905804\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/208905804<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"ddf4\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">And <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/19_3xX9BiDuKeMsN-2O7XSEJ-GCuIVkWrE0GEhq4BNHM\/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/19_3xX9BiDuKeMsN-2O7XSEJ-GCuIVkWrE0GEhq4BNHM\/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\">here\u2019s the slides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diversity-friendly software (SXSW 2017) \" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/mtmGbuHUGcLemM\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/JonPincus1\/diversityfriendly-software-sxsw-2017\" title=\"Diversity-friendly software (SXSW 2017) \" target=\"_blank\">Diversity-friendly software (SXSW 2017) <\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/JonPincus1\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Pincus<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p id=\"a8c0\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">We covered a lot! Here a list of references, along with some notes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Anti-patterns<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing\">Machine Bias,<\/a> Julia Angwin et. al., <em>Pro Publica<\/em>\u00a0 Software issue: algorithmic bias.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tressiemcphd\/digital-redlining-after-trump-real-names-fake-news-on-facebook-af63bf00bf9e#.k9g7ema70\">Digital redlining after Trump: Real names and fake news on Facebook,<\/a> Tressie McMillan Cottom, <em>Medium.\u00a0 <\/em>Software issues: algorithms manipulable to favor \u201cfake news\u201d; mandatory automated race and gender identification (as opposed to optional self-identification) allows affinity targeting to penalize people identified by the algorithms as \u201cblack\u201d and \u201cwoman&#8221;; reporting mechanism provides tool to harassers.\n<ul>\n<li>Process issue: &#8220;real names&#8221; violations treated more seriously than violation of racism and sexism community standards.<\/li>\n<li>Policy issue: &#8220;real names&#8221; policies harmful to women and other marginalizd groups; see <em>Geek Feminism&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Real_Names%22_policy%3F\">Who is Harmed by a Real Names Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/facebook-lets-advertisers-exclude-users-by-race\">Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race<\/a>, Julia Angwin and Terry Paris, Jr., <em>Pro Publica.\u00a0 <\/em>Software issue: mandatory automated race and gender identification (as opposed to optional self-identification)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/leslie-macs-facebook-ban-is-the-latest-development-in-racially-biased-censorship\/\">Leslie Mac\u2019s Facebook Ban Is The Latest Development In Racially Biased Censorship<\/a>, Elizabth Adetiba, <em>Black Youth Project.\u00a0 <\/em>Software issue: reporting mechanism provides tool to harassers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/327103\/leslie-jones-twitter-racism\/\">How a racist, sexist hate mob forced Leslie Jones off Twitter<\/a>, Kristen V. Brown, <em>Fusion.<br \/>\n<\/em>Software issue: functionality gives tools to attackers; lack of tools for people to defend themselves.\u00a0 Policy\/process issue: Twitter didn&#8217;t enforce their terms of service against attackers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/charliewarzel\/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s?utm_term=.ohyn7BZyz#.idBwk0BKo\">\u201cA Honeypot For Assholes\u201d: Inside Twitter\u2019s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment<\/a>, Charlie Warzel, <em>Buzzfeed<\/em>.\u00a0 Software process issues: not working with the people targeted by harassment means that attempts to deal with the problem haven&#8217;t worked; lack of prioritization and investment in a key business problem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602355\/airbnb-isnt-really-confronting-its-racism-problem\/\">Airbnb Isn\u2019t Really Confronting Its Racism Problem<\/a>, Jamie Condliffe, <em>MIT Technology Review<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedelman.org\/news\/062316-1.html\">Preventing Discrimination at Airbnb<\/a>, Ben Edelman, <em>benedelman.org<\/em>.\u00a0 Software issues: unnecessary information (names and photos) enables discrimination; no mechanism for people to test (lack of transparency)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Best Practices<\/h2>\n<h3>Diverse representation, inclusive culture, equitable policies<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/projectinclude.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Include<\/a> has recommendations on culture, employee lifecycle , metrics, and more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/sites\/whitehouse.gov\/files\/images\/Documents\/Diversity%20Equity%20Inclusion%20Action%20Grid.pdf\">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science and Technology Action Grid,<\/a> the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, November 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/build-diverse-inclusive-company\/\">How to build for a diverse and inclusive company<\/a>, Jon Pincus: a summary of key takeaways from Tech Inclusion 2016<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/HOWTO_recruit_and_retain_women_in_tech_workplaces\">HOW TO recruit and retain women in tech workplaces<\/a>, <em>Geek Feminism<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Setting intention<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamwidth.org\/legal\/diversity\">Dreamwidth Diversity Statement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.djangoproject.com\/diversity\/\">Django Diversity Statement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/citizencodeofconduct.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Citizen Code of Conduct from the Stumptown Syndicate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/authenticengine.com\/2016\/adopting-a-code-of-conduct-is-an-adaptive-challenge-not-a-technical-one\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adopting a code of conduct is an adaptive challenge not a technical one<\/a>, Christie Koehler<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/diversity.missouri.edu\/summit\/session-mats\/can_we_talk-microaggressions_in_everyday_life-handout.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Microagressions in Everyday Life<\/a>, University of Missouri handout<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alexjs.com\/\">Alex.js: catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/Django_primary-replica_terminology_patch_dispute\" rel=\"nofollow\">Django primary\/replica<\/a> patch disput<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Accessibility<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/Overview.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">W3C\u2019s Web Accessibility Initiative<\/a> has an <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/intro\/accessibility.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Introduction to Web Accessibility<\/a>, tips on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/designing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Designing<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/writing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Writing<\/a>, and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/developing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Developing<\/a> for web accessibility, a summary of the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG20\/glance\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines<\/a> as well as the full spec, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/PF\/aria-practices\/WAI-ARIA\" rel=\"nofollow\">Authoring Practices<\/a>, and a lot more info.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/a11yproject.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The A11y project<\/a>: a community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier. Digestible, up-to-date, and forgiving.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zngSYz3pYl4&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;list=PL95LOQw9SLWxmcZtzBiFuT9HAJKFJnl2n\" rel=\"nofollow\">Web accessibility basics<\/a> by Marco Zehe packs a lot of information into a 50-minute video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Flexible, optional, self-identification<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/sessions\/1489\" rel=\"nofollow\">Male\/Female\/Othered: Implementing Gender-Inclusiveness in User Data Collection<\/a>, Finn Harker and Jonathan Ellis, Open Source Bridge 2015<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmei.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/disalienation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora<\/a>, Sarah Mei<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2008\/genders-and-drop-down-menus\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Genders and Drop-down Menus<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2010\/designing-a-better-drop-down-menu-for-gender\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Designing a Better Drop-Down Menu for Gender<\/a>, Sarah Dopp on <i>Dopp Juice<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Emerging techniques<\/h2>\n<h3>Gender HCI<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gendermag.org\/\">The GenderMag Project<\/a>&#8216;s site includes a downloadable kit and instructions for a gender-specialized cognitive walkthrough and a set of four GenderMag personas.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/iwc.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2016\/01\/27\/iwc.iwv046.short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/iwc.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2016\/01\/27\/iwc.iwv046.short\">GenderMag: A method for evaluating software\u2019s gender inclusiveness<\/a> and <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2858274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2858274\">Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues with GenderMag: A Field Investigation<\/a>, both by Margaret Burnett et. al., describe this work from a research perspective.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/interactions.acm.org\/archive\/view\/january-february-2014\/are-you-sure-your-software-is-gender-neutral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/interactions.acm.org\/archive\/view\/january-february-2014\/are-you-sure-your-software-is-gender-neutral\">Are you sure your software is gender-neutral?<\/a>, Gayna Williams, <em>ACM Interactions<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/gender-hci-feminist-hci-and-post-colonial-computing-f955a4054c89#.vb1iq3uqy\">Gender HCI, Feminist HCI, and Post-Colonial Computing<\/a>, Jon Pincus, <em>Medium<\/em>, summarizes research in these areas, and includes several videos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Threat modeling and harassment<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2015\/10\/sxsw_canceled_panels_here_is_what_happened.html\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2015\/10\/sxsw_canceled_panels_here_is_what_happened.html\">SXSW canceled panels: Here is what happened<\/a>, Caroline Sinders, <em>Slate<\/em>, briefly discusses the concept<\/li>\n<li id=\"gs_cit0\" class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paginaspersonales.deusto.es\/claorden\/publications\/2010\/sanz_RECSI10_A%20Threat%20Model%20Approach%20to%20Attacks%20and%20Countermeasures%20in%20OSN.pdf\">A threat model approach to attacks and countermeasures in on-line social networks<\/a>, Borja Sanz et al.,\u00a0 in<i> Proceedings of the 11th Reunion Espanola de Criptograf\u0131a y Seguridad de la Informaci\u00f3n (RECSI)<\/i><\/li>\n<li class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owasp.org\/index.php\/Category:Threat_Modeling\">OWASP&#8217;s Threat Modeling page<\/a> is a decent introduction to the general topic of threat modeling, although doesn&#8217;t apply it to harassment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Algorithmic Bias<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/big-risks-big-opportunities-intersection-big-data-and-civil-rights\" rel=\"nofollow\">Big Risks, Big Opportunities: the Intersection of Big Data and Civil Rights<\/a>: a White House report<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fatml.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?<\/a>, Jeremy Kun<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@hannawallach\/big-data-machine-learning-and-the-social-sciences-927a8e20460d\" rel=\"nofollow\">Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency<\/a>. Hanna Wallach<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/socialmediacollective.org\/reading-lists\/critical-algorithm-studies\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Critical Algorithm Studies: a Reading List<\/a>, from the Social Media Collective at Microsoft: the literature on algorithms as social processes.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/11vNi2CxPMV_wFhfhpXBK8qe1o4KN59hNVaPeD4zagNA\/edit#slide=id.g11c7e027ab_0_0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fairness in Machine learning<\/a>, a slide deck from Delip Rao, includes a short reading list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-491 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/virtuous-cycle.png\" alt=\"Let's create a virtuous cycle!\" width=\"1278\" height=\"738\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVideo, slides, and references from the talk Shireen Mitchell and I did at SXSW 2017.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}