[{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m so excited to give a talk at MIT on Tuesday. I\u0026rsquo;ll be talking about reverse engineering. If I need to sound fancy about it, I will tell you that \u0026ldquo;reverse engineering is a logic and approach that is core to my method.\u0026rdquo; Put more plainly, I use reverse engineering and other \u0026ldquo;take it apart and figure out how it works\u0026rdquo; approaches to academic software research. Details (and poster!) below.\nSoftware from the Inside Out: Reverse Engineering as Method\nNikki Stevens, PhD\nTuesday, Sept 24 12:00-1:15pm EST\nIn person: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DUSP: Building 9, Room 451 on zoom: 💻 https://mit.zoom.us/j/96238770940\nnotes and references https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tEmqYoGV-Egbx8xezwqr7nhzVaV8oNqV2ceU2EwNA2M/edit\nAbstract\nHow would our studies of software change if we could examine the code itself? What new forms of inquiry become available when we reduce the opacity of commercial software products? In this talk, I describe several processes of reverse engineering, a series of methods by which we can look inside software that we did not build. Throughout, I discuss opportunities for inquiry and theorization offered by penetration approaches, as well as some common ethical and legal considerations. I ground the theory with case studies from Android applications, Internet of Things products, and the US criminal legal system. Ultimately, I argue that reverse engineering is a key method for the humanistic and social studies of software and will have implications for scholars and practitioners interested in software\u0026rsquo;s role in social change. Bio\nNikki Stevens is a critical technology researcher, software practitioner, and open-source community leader. Their research demonstrates that data infrastructures—data models, databases, data structures—are locations in which software harms can be incubated, exacerbated, or ameliorated. Using mixed methods, including historical analysis, reverse engineering and speculative design, Stevens excavates technical practices, linking them to aspects of contemporary structural oppression. Their first monograph, Abolitionist Engineering (in progress), develops an approach to data structures that orients engineering practice towards alternative futures. In industry, Stevens led the architecture of software products for billion-dollar corporations like Coca-Cola, Sony, and Instagram, and their work has won numerous awards, including at SXSW, the premier conference for new media. In open source, Stevens’ work in the Drupal community earned them the Aaron Winborn Award and recognitions by Red Hat and The Linux Foundation. Their work has been supported by Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft. They are currently a postdoctoral researcher at MIT\u0026rsquo;s Data + Feminism Lab.\n(Downloadable Poster) 📄 Downloadable Poster\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/2024-09-20-mit-talk/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m so excited to give a talk at MIT on Tuesday.  I\u0026rsquo;ll be talking about reverse engineering. If I need to sound fancy about it, I will tell you that \u0026ldquo;reverse engineering is a logic and approach that is core to my method.\u0026rdquo;  Put more plainly, I use reverse engineering and other \u0026ldquo;take it apart and figure out how it works\u0026rdquo; approaches to academic software research.   Details (and poster!) below.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"MIT Talk: Reverse Engineering as Method"},{"content":"My research agenda examines how software engineering practices are situated within contemporary political and social systems of power. At parties, I tell people that I study software, people, and infrastructure and how those three combine in messy, violent, generative, and always complicated ways. My main focus right now is writing a book (!!): while we might frequently hear accusations of tech being racist or transphobic (or just generally contributing to injustice), we don\u0026rsquo;t often see the technical causes of those outcomes; my research uncovers those causes \u0026ndash; when we know how we are making [bad thing], then we may have an opportunity to do things differently. As an output of that research, I work on new technical practices. In this work, I ask questions like: (these questions are what I\u0026rsquo;m writing my book about)\nHow can software engineers support social justice causes in their technical practices? How have the ways we make software been shaped by oppressive social forces? What new technical practices can we (engineers) integrate into our pipelines? How do the ways that we collect data about people shape the experiences of those people? This is pretty abstract, but if you invite me for a talk (hint hint), I would give talks titled:\n\u0026ldquo;Abolitionist Data Practices: Applying political goals to data structures\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Is my database racist? How white supremacy structures our databases\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;The history of data modeling\u0026rdquo; (this one is more exciting than it sounds, I swear!) \u0026ldquo;Beyond \u0026lsquo;anti-racist\u0026rsquo; engineering: why anti-racism does not make better software\u0026rdquo; A note about methods In order to unearth tehnical roots of injustice, I use several approaches, which I broadly consider to be three kinds of engineering:\nFrequently, I perform what I call historical engineering: I use close reading, archival analysis, and software design to excavate software engineering practices with the aim of historicizing and denaturalizing them. Using this method, I have reviewed texts from early data modelers, like E.F. Codd and Peter P.Y. Chen. I also recreate technology and practices identified in early patent documents to identify the moments in which problematic epistemologies were codified.*\nI very often use reverse engineering to hack into existing software applications and examine the choices made by their creators. Most often, I reverse engineer the Android applications of smart home devices to uncover the relational data models within. I analyze in-code annotations, create entity-relationship diagrams, and then examine those resultant models, again linking them back to systems of race and gender power. In my work, I have developed a method for performing a reverse engineering investigations within a specific sociotechnical context \u0026ndash; a situated analysis of the contextual epistemological frames embedded within relational paradigms.\nI also use speculative engineering and software engineering to explore the potentiality and creative possibilities of existing and not-yet-created computational tools. In my speculative engineering process, I frequently suggest that the temporality of modern digital computing is incommensurate with the temporality of modern transgender lives. Following this, I design and build a trans-inclusive data model that demonstrates ways to actively subvert systems of racialized and gendered power.\nThe most well-developed example of these methods in practice is in my dissertation, Modeling Power: Data Models and the Production of Social Inequality.\nYou can also read my other work (PDFs linked below):\nStevens, Nikko L., Anna Lauren Hoffman, Sarah Florini. “The Unremarked Optimum: Whiteness, Optimization, and Control in The Database Revolution.” Review of Communication. June 2021.\nStevens, Nikko L. and Os Keyes. “The Domestication of Facial Recognition Technology.” Cultural Studies. March 2021\nStevens, Nikko L. “Dataset Failures and Intersectional Data.” Journal of Cultural Analytics. March 2019.\nStevens, Nikko L. and Jacqueline Wernimont. “Seeing 21st Century Data Bleed through the 15th Century Wound Man.” IEEE Technology and Society. December 2018\nA note about community and context My work with software and thinking about it\u0026rsquo;s harms is greatly influenced by my time in open source software communities, and all of the collaborators with whom I have worked to make change. In the Drupal community, I founded the Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Working Group. With a few others, we grew the group from 5 to 700 over two years, and grappled with ways to make Drupal a safer space for folks from underrepresented groups.\nOut of this work came Open Demographics, a project that uses open source paradigmns to construct demographic questions, following the disability justice paradigm \u0026ldquo;Nothing About Us Without Us.\u0026rdquo; I\u0026rsquo;ve consulted for Mozilla, Stack Overflow, WordPress on asking demographic questions and then, doing the even tougher work of figuring out what comes next.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/research/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMy research agenda examines how software engineering practices are situated within contemporary political and social systems of power.  At parties, I tell people that I study software, people, and infrastructure and how those three combine in messy, violent, generative, and always complicated ways.  My main focus right now is writing a book (!!): while we might frequently hear accusations of tech being racist or transphobic (or just generally contributing to injustice), we don\u0026rsquo;t often see the technical causes of those outcomes; my research uncovers those causes \u0026ndash; when we know \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c/em\u003e we are making [bad thing], then we may have an opportunity to do things differently.  As an output of that research, I work on new technical practices. In this work, I ask questions like: (these questions are what I\u0026rsquo;m writing my book about)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Research"},{"content":"At the end of July, I was appointed Bradford, Vermont\u0026rsquo;s Interim Town Health Officer (THO), after the resignation of our previous officer. This is a new role for me, so I reached out to VLCT for information on what THO do. Here\u0026rsquo;s what I found out\nThe state of Vermont has information and trainings. On that site, you can download the Town Health Officer Manual Vermont made a slide presentation of THO duties ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-gov-vt-town-health-officer/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAt the end of July, I was appointed Bradford, Vermont\u0026rsquo;s Interim Town Health Officer (THO), after the resignation of our previous officer.   This is a new role for me, so I reached out to VLCT for information on what THO do.  Here\u0026rsquo;s what I found out\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Gov Vermont: Town Health Officer"},{"content":"There have been a lot of questions lately about who gets to speak (and otherwise participate) in SelectBoard meetings. Here\u0026rsquo;s what I know:\nThe Selectboard is governed by Vermont\u0026rsquo;s Open Meeting Law (The specific statute - 1 V.S.A. § 312) VLCT offers FAQs about the Open Meeting Law. These might be locked behind their login screen, so here is a PDF of that page VLCT offers Model Rules of Procedure for SelectBoards without their own bylaws In conversation with VLCT, they note that the spirit of the law is to err on the side of allowing more participation than less, within \u0026ldquo;reasonable\u0026rdquo; limits. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-gov-vt-open-meeting-law/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThere have been a lot of questions lately about who gets to speak (and otherwise participate) in SelectBoard meetings.  Here\u0026rsquo;s what I know:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Selectboard is governed by Vermont\u0026rsquo;s \u003ca href=\"https://www.vlct.org/topics/vermonts-open-meeting-law\"\u003eOpen Meeting Law\u003c/a\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/01/005/00312#:~:text=Subchapter%20002%20%3A%20Public%20Information%20%28Cite%20as%3A%201,as%20provided%20in%20section%20313%20of%20this%20title.\"\u003eThe specific statute - \u003cstrong\u003e1 V.S.A. § 312\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVLCT offers FAQs about the Open Meeting Law.  These might be locked behind their login screen, so \u003ca href=\"https://nikkostevens.com/VLCTOpenMeetingLawFAQs.pdf\"\u003ehere is a PDF of that page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVLCT offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.vlct.org/resource/model-rules-procedure-municipal-boards\"\u003eModel Rules of Procedure\u003c/a\u003e for SelectBoards without their own bylaws\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn conversation with VLCT, they note that the spirit of the law is to err on the side of allowing more participation than less, within \u0026ldquo;reasonable\u0026rdquo; limits.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"Open Gov Vermont: Open Meeting Law"},{"content":"The information below is part of a larger conversation about Open Source Program (or Project) Offices (OSPOs)in academic (university) settings.\nWays to Contribute [VERSO] has compiled a list of ways to contribute to open source, especially if you are not a coder.\nWhat other universities/companies/municipalities have OSPOs? OSPO++\u0026rsquo;s [list of member organizations(https://ospoplusplus.org/about/members/)] The interactive OSPO Landscape Map is a map of open source program offices, supporters, and associates. Open Source by the numbers Case Studies TODO Group has a list Open@RIT OSPO++, TODO Group Groups supporting OSPOS TODO group: an open collective of OSPOs, largely corporate. TODO is founded with/by the Linux Foundation See, in particular, their overview presentation about TODO and OSPOs in general. OSPO++: A group of OSPOs specifically in academic or government contexts. The OSPOlogy project (part of TODO Group) is the active community/participation arm of TODO focused on the study of OSPOs. Further Reading I made a public and continually updated Zotero Library with references I\u0026rsquo;ve found useful in my thinking both about open source, and about OSPOs in particular.\nVERSO, the OSPO at University of Vermont, has compiled a reading list.\nOpen@RIT has a Zotero library of resources about open work. source\nVerso Playbook\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/ospos/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe information below is part of a larger conversation about Open Source Program (or Project) Offices (OSPOs)in academic (university) settings.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- NEXT TASK:\nhttps://ospoplusplus.org/resource/\n\ntake these, and grab the objectives and put them into a table or sheet or something so that they can be compared across each other. --\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"ways-to-contribute\"\u003eWays to Contribute\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[VERSO] has compiled a list of \u003ca href=\"https://verso.w3.uvm.edu/start-contributing/\"\u003eways to contribute\u003c/a\u003e to open source, especially if you are not a coder.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"OSPO 101"},{"content":"I have several active or otherwise on-going open source projects. I\u0026rsquo;m also currently doing some thinking about university open source project offices. More about OSPOs\u0026hellip;\nOpen Demographics The Open Demographics project is an open-source project designed to help people and teams ask questions about demographic data (gender, sexual orientation, race). It uses an open source paradigm (community sourced, publicly accessible) to generate a collective consensus on the most inclusive ways to ask questions. This project is not without it\u0026rsquo;s own political shortcomings and challenges - it\u0026rsquo;s in English, and most contributors are based in the United States. The community is working to enhance it and expand it to other regions.\nOutcomes: This project, in concert with the Gender Field project on Drupal.org has resulted in more inclusive questioning for over one million Drupal.org users. Check out the blog announcement by Dries Buytaert (founder of Drupal).\nTrans-inclusive data model As the result of both Open Demographics conversations, and other conversations about how to store data collected by inclusive demographic forms. The trans-inclusive data model (currently under construction) is designed to store name, gender, pronoun information in a context-sensitive way that supports asking questions of the data like \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m about to call this person at home - what is their name and pronoun there?\u0026rdquo;\nYou can read more about this data model in Chapter 4 of my dissertation\nOpen Government Vermont When I moved back to Vermont in 2022 (initially to work for Dartmouth, but now I live here forever!), I immediately got involved in local town issues. I am continually reminded of how little I know about making communities better in slow, steady practice. In contrast to the theory of my PhD, and the radical protest of my younger days, my current work is more complicated, more intricate, and far slower than I was prepared for. As I learn and experience the details of how local government and small-town social change works, I\u0026rsquo;m sharing it here.\nNote: As of this writing (August 2023), I am an elected member of our town Selectboard and also the (Interim) Town Health Officer.\nOpen Source PhD Before I began my PhD program, I frequently thought, “I wish I knew what people in [insert name of PhD program] were reading” because I wanted to do that same reading. Some courses had syllabi available, some had notes, but it was hard to get a sense of the themes that were being discussed. I told myself that if I were ever lucky enough to be able enter a PhD program, I’d share as much as I could about the material I was reading. During my coursework and comprehensive exams, I did just that. Those posts form the core of the Open Source PhD project. Read all of the posts.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/open-source/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI have several active or otherwise on-going open source projects.  I\u0026rsquo;m also currently doing some thinking about university open source project offices.  \u003ca href=\"/posts/ospos/\"\u003eMore about OSPOs\u0026hellip;\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"open-demographics\"\u003eOpen Demographics\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/drnikki/open-demographics\"\u003eOpen Demographics\u003c/a\u003e project is an open-source project designed to help people and teams ask questions about demographic data (gender, sexual orientation, race).  It uses an open source paradigm (community sourced, publicly accessible) to generate a collective consensus on the most inclusive ways to ask questions.  This project is not without it\u0026rsquo;s own political shortcomings and challenges - it\u0026rsquo;s in English, and most contributors are based in the United States.  The community is working to enhance it and expand it to other regions.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source"},{"content":"Hi! Hi! I\u0026rsquo;m Dr. Nikki Stevens. I am a researcher, a technical architect, and an open source community member. I am currently a postdoc at MIT, and was previously a postdoc at Dartmouth College.\nAs a researcher, I have a PhD in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (broadly, a Science and Technology Studies program). My research focuses on how software engineering practices reinforce systems of power. In other words, my research explains, from the code and database up, how data is biased or algorithms can cause harm to people. Read more about my current research.\nAs a technical architect and software engineer, I held titles like Vice President of Engineering, Director of Engineering, Technical Lead, and CTO. I did work for brands like Playboy, Refinery29, Sony, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Country Music Television, RedHat, and Globalgrind. My work has been featured in Style Magazine, and won awards from SXSW. You can see my technical/industry CV on LinkedIn.\nAs an open source contributor, I have been a member of the Drupal open source community for over 13 years. In that community, I founded and led a multi-year diversity, equity and inclusion initiative Drupal Diversity and Inclusion that is still running under new leadership. I am the founder and co-maintainer of Open Demographics, a project that helps open source communities evaluate the demographics of their communities. For my open source work, I have received recognition from The Drupal Community, RedHat, and Google. See more open source projects.\n📄 My current academic CV\nI\u0026rsquo;d love to hear from you if you want to talk about any of the above, or if you have questions about how to be a trans person in academia.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/about/","summary":"\u003ch1 id=\"hi\"\u003eHi!\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHi!  I\u0026rsquo;m Dr. Nikki Stevens. I am a researcher, a technical architect, and an open source community member. I am currently a postdoc at MIT, and was previously a postdoc at Dartmouth College.\u003c/p\u003e","title":""},{"content":"The information below is part of a larger conversation about Open Source Program (or Project) Offices (OSPOs)in academic (university) settings.\nWays to Contribute VERSO has compiled a list of ways to contribute to open source, especially if you are not a coder.\nWhat other universities/companies/municipalities have OSPOs? OSPO++\u0026rsquo;s list of member organizations The interactive OSPO Landscape Map is a map of open source program offices, supporters, and associates. Case Studies TODO Group has a list Open@RIT OSPO++, TODO Group Groups supporting OSPOS TODO group: an open collective of OSPOs, largely corporate. TODO is founded with/by the Linux Foundation See, in particular, their overview presentation about TODO and OSPOs in general. OSPO++: A group of OSPOs specifically in academic or government contexts. The OSPOlogy project (part of TODO Group) is the active community/participation arm of TODO focused on the study of OSPOs. Further Reading I made a public and continually updated Zotero Library with references I\u0026rsquo;ve found useful in my thinking both about open source, and about OSPOs in particular.\nVERSO, the OSPO at University of Vermont, has compiled a reading list.\nOpen@RIT has a Zotero library of resources about open work. source\nVerso Playbook\nOpen@RIT repos\nOSPO++ guide to setting up a University OSPO\nOSTP policy\nSaint Louis University\u0026rsquo;s OSPO\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/ospos/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe information below is part of a larger conversation about Open Source Program (or Project) Offices (OSPOs)in academic (university) settings.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- NEXT TASK:\nhttps://ospoplusplus.org/resource/\n\ntake these, and grab the objectives and put them into a table or sheet or something so that they can be compared across each other. --\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"ways-to-contribute\"\u003eWays to Contribute\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVERSO has compiled a list of \u003ca href=\"https://verso.w3.uvm.edu/start-contributing/\"\u003eways to contribute\u003c/a\u003e to open source, especially if you are not a coder.\u003c/p\u003e","title":""},{"content":"This week I got to present at DrupalCon (again! I love the Drupal community) and talk about what it means to think about making software with transgender users in mind. Given the diverse audience, the talk is also a bit of a trans 101.\nMy slides\nOriginal Post\nWatch the talk ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/drupalcon-2020/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis week I got to present at DrupalCon (again! I love the Drupal community) and talk about what it means to think about making software with transgender users in mind.  Given the diverse audience, the talk is also a bit of a trans 101.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"DrupalCon 2020: Slides and Resources"},{"content":"Since my first semester in graduate school, I\u0026rsquo;ve been posting my reading lists and general themes for the month. Since my comprehensive exams in May, I have certainly been reading, though not nearly as much. I took some time off, moved to the Dartmouth area and began working as a researcher and lab manager of the Digital Justice Lab, a lab in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.\nPart of the motivation of sharing those lists (you can see the first entry here) was to acknowledge my privilege to be able to read and think with professors and peers, and to share as much as I can about the process. My years of open-source training have instilled in me that the more knowledge can be shared, the better. I\u0026rsquo;ve struggled with the best way to maintain that as I enter the dissertation phase of my degree. The best conclusion I\u0026rsquo;ve come to is that I can share how I\u0026rsquo;m working, I can share some of the artifacts of the process, and I can share - for better and/or worse - how I\u0026rsquo;m going to get this dissertation done in the next 18 months.\nSo, welcome to \u0026ldquo;Open Source Dissertation.\u0026rdquo;\nI\u0026rsquo;m breaking the next few weeks into theme weeks so that I can survey the literature in several key areas and get a sense of key texts I\u0026rsquo;ll need to engage with. This week is \u0026ldquo;Conceptual Modeling.\u0026rdquo;\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-diss/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSince my first semester in graduate school, I\u0026rsquo;ve been posting my reading lists and general themes for the month.  Since my comprehensive exams in May, I have certainly been reading, though not nearly as much.  I took some time off, moved to the Dartmouth area and began working as a researcher and lab manager of the Digital Justice Lab, a lab in the \u003ca href=\"http://dhse.dartmouth.edu\"\u003eDigital Humanities and Social Engagement\u003c/a\u003e Cluster.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: The Dissertation"},{"content":"As part of a series of posts that I\u0026rsquo;ve been calling \u0026ldquo;Open Source PhD,\u0026rdquo; I\u0026rsquo;m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for those exams here.\nFor the social history of computing field, I prepared a fully annotated history of computing from my field sources. This document is biased in all the ways my field list itself is biased, and moreso because I only pulled out events that I thought I might need to reference or put in context.\nYou\u0026rsquo;ll also note that the timeline stops in the early 1990s. This is both where my sources started to dwindle and where my personal knowledge of computing kicks in. Like most of the rest of my work, this is released as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).\nComputing Timeline\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-timeline/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs part of a series of posts that I\u0026rsquo;ve been calling \u0026ldquo;Open Source PhD,\u0026rdquo; I\u0026rsquo;m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for those exams \u003ca href=\"/posts/open-source-phd-spring-2019/\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"History of Computing Timeline"},{"content":"This week I attended three conferences - The Rightful Place of Science, Digital Democracies, and HASTAC 2019. The three were very different, but each gave me an opportunity to interact with other grad students and with professors of all levels. It was wonderful and exhausting. At HASTAC 2019, the plenary talks invoked themes of connection, of community. Speakers cited specifically where they learned a concept (\u0026ldquo;from an elder in Treaty 3\u0026rdquo;), why they used a particular framework (because it was used \u0026ldquo;by an elder who I\u0026rsquo;m accountable to\u0026rdquo;), and made a point to acknowledge the roles of other people in all of their work.\nHearing these talks, at the end of a very long week, I felt the absence of a practice of acknowledgement in my own work. While I constantly engage with scholars\u0026rsquo; academic productions and trace genealogies of ideas, I do not have a similar citational practice for the various labors and generosities that directly and materially contribute to my work.\nThis post is a first inchoate attempt to remedy that absence by publicly acknowledging the folks who contributed to this specific and time-bound event (my engineering brain likes boundaries). I have an incomplete list of people: Tonia Sutherland, Marika Cifor, Nilofar Salehi, Anna Lauren Hoffman, Matthew Bui, Lisa Nakamura, Marisa Duarte, Katina Michael, Emma Frow, Brinker Ferguson and Jacque Wernimont, and as I travel home, they are on my mind as contributors.\nMy engineering mind wants to categorize the generosities, to discuss generosities of kindness, of attention, of time; to separate the acts that landed on my heart and feelings and the acts that were competence, simply and well done, and which smoothed the path forward for many things. Engineering mind is not always correct. I don\u0026rsquo;t know what my academic future is; I\u0026rsquo;ve seen the quitlit and the stories of folks leaving because of many forms of violence; academia is not built for people like me. Though I may exist at institutions, I can resist institutionalization and remain attentive to the almost-uncountable number of small kindnesses that make my existence in this space possible.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/kindness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis week I attended \u003cem\u003ethree\u003c/em\u003e conferences - \u003ca href=\"https://sfis.asu.edu/news-events/events/cspo-20th\"\u003eThe Rightful Place of Science\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfu.ca/digital-democracies/2019-conference/program.html\"\u003eDigital Democracies\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hastac2019.org/\"\u003eHASTAC 2019\u003c/a\u003e.  The three were very different, but each gave me an opportunity to interact with other grad students and with professors of all levels.   It was wonderful and exhausting. At HASTAC 2019, the plenary talks invoked themes of connection, of community.  Speakers cited specifically where they learned a concept (\u0026ldquo;from an elder in Treaty 3\u0026rdquo;), why they used a particular framework (because it was used \u0026ldquo;by an elder who I\u0026rsquo;m accountable to\u0026rdquo;), and made a point to acknowledge the roles of other people in all of their work.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"On developing a practice of acknowledgment"},{"content":"Hi. In a way, everything feels terrible right now, doesn\u0026rsquo;t it? I\u0026rsquo;m pretty tired of feeling terrible, and super tired of feeling like the country is in a new level of shit, when - let\u0026rsquo;s be honest - it\u0026rsquo;s been shit for everyone but white men since the beginning. I hear a lot of people feeling powerless; folks are tired. Me too, y\u0026rsquo;all (and #metoo).\nI don\u0026rsquo;t know what everyone is capable of, though I believe it to be more than we even realize, but I have figured out what I can do right now. I\u0026rsquo;ve been a programmer for a long time, and part of open source software communities for many years. This combination means that when I figure something out I make a list and I write a blog. So\u0026hellip; in line with my devotion to open source knowledge, open communication, transparent processes, and public commitments, here I am publicly committing to what I can do 100% of the time* in the next 12 months. I\u0026rsquo;m going to vote, obviously. But beyond that, I\u0026rsquo;ve asked myself: What does it look like to make a conscious, sustainable effort to invest in the future I want?\nThe big key for me is sustainable: I have a job; I\u0026rsquo;m in graduate school doing work that I believe will make me a more effective change agent when it\u0026rsquo;s done; I\u0026rsquo;m involved with several dysfunctional communities that need my support. What can I commit to doing constantly and consistently in light of my other obligations? A lot of the commitments below are things that folks already say they do all the time - but if they did them all the time, I think the world would look pretty different. My trust for white folks (and white women specifically) is at an all-time low, so despite some of these feeling like really base-level behavior, I think it\u0026rsquo;s important to be explicit and to specify exactly how I\u0026rsquo;m going to honor and fulfill my commitments. These public commitments also mean that if you see me breaking them, I invite you to call me out on it.\ntl;dr: I commit to put money in the pockets of people of color and put emotional energy into dealing with my racist and sexist white sisters.\nI have economic commitments The absolutely easiest way I can act in line with my values is by paying attention to where and how I spend money. Simply not spending money at companies that do violence to communities of color is a no-brainer. It\u0026rsquo;s also different from actively trying to put my money into the pockets of people of color in my community.\nI increased my donations to Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU If I drank alcohol, I would avoid Constellation brands in solidarity with those fighting for water rights. Read more at Latino Rebels and NPR. When I\u0026rsquo;m choosing a service, I commit to specifically searching first for businesses that are black or POC owned. Anything you need, you can find from a business owned by a POC. I don\u0026rsquo;t spend a ton of money on things (see above re: grad school), but when I do, I do it specifically from black-owned businesses. When I get my head shaved, I go to a local black-owned barbershop. When I\u0026rsquo;m shopping on Etsy, I start with their listing of black owned shops There may be a black-owned farm or grocery store in your area, but there\u0026rsquo;s not one here that I\u0026rsquo;ve found yet. This is a great black-owned crystal shop If you have a regular service provider who is white, can you change so that you\u0026rsquo;re putting money into POC pockets? I\u0026rsquo;m actively looking for a POC sports massage therapist in my area. I\u0026rsquo;m still struggling with how to spend less money on Amazon - I need to buy books, and I need to get them used and not spend a ton of time tracking them down - but I\u0026rsquo;m working on it.\nI have academic commitments Last year, I sat in a master class with a well-known (white, cismale) scholar and listened to him denigrate United States slaves. None of us said anything because we were scared of our department chair and the scholar. I haven\u0026rsquo;t repeated that silence, and here I renew my commitment to calling out racist, sexist, colonialist, transphobic and other bullshit every time I see it in a classroom, regardless of the power dynamics at play. I #citeblackwomen and, wherever possible, read womxn, trans* folks, people of color, indigenous, and disabled scholars. I commit to recommending only work by people who do not identify as cisgendered white men. I commit to collaborating only with scholars whose politics and ethics I respect and whose values are anti-racist, anti-transphobic, anti-Islamophobic, anti\u0026hellip;.. If I find out that I\u0026rsquo;m working with a scholar who does not share these views, I commit to terminating that working relationship (but helping them wake the fuck up, if they are white women; see the next section). As a graduate student, my attention and labor are the only currencies I have to spend - I commit to spending them with scholars who are working to make the world better. I have social commitments Here\u0026rsquo;s where it gets really exhausting, but I\u0026rsquo;m doing it anyway: I commit to talking with all of the white women in my life whose actions support patriarchy. This is my least favorite thing to do and the thing that I think is the most important here. These conversations mean that I often need to ignore cisnormative/transviolent dialogue to help folks ease into thinking critically about patriarchy. I commit to that ignoring in the service of bringing folks along.\nI also:\ncommit to being visible and vocal in my communities to advocate for victims of abuse and harassment. Tactically, this means that I commit to responding publicly when an issue occurs and making it uncomfortable for white women to perpetuate patriarchal and racist violence. This means that I\u0026rsquo;m willing to be that person who won\u0026rsquo;t shut up about an issue that continues to make communities dangerous. commit to supporting others doing good work and getting into good trouble in any way that I can. commit to addressing 100% of the racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, *ist comments that I hear I would like this to mean calling in whenever possible. commit to holding space for folks to come together and process what\u0026rsquo;s happening I would like this to include support in meaningful ways - time, food, physical space commit to volunteering in my community at least once a month, with organizations that work towards racial and economic justice. I don\u0026rsquo;t believe that courts will save us, and I know that putting my body and energy towards people who need it is valuable. I have limits Lest it seem like I\u0026rsquo;m here all \u0026ldquo;look at me do all the things,\u0026rdquo; here are some things I\u0026rsquo;m not doing this year because I know I can\u0026rsquo;t engage with them sustainably or in a way that\u0026rsquo;s safe for me.\nI can\u0026rsquo;t:\nspend time or emotional labor educating white cisgendered men. (Get on it, other men) spend time caring for and curating safe online spaces. read material from the \u0026ldquo;other side.\u0026rdquo; I\u0026rsquo;ll be passing on works by Jonathan Haidt, thanks. make time commitments to recruit voters or to campaign for candidates. commit to actively interrogate the politics of people in designated \u0026ldquo;no politics\u0026rdquo; zones. My gym, for example, is a wild mix of political views (including folks who are alllll the way right) and they try to leave it all at the door, so I\u0026rsquo;m respecting that. I will, however, continue to not tolerate any racist bullshit from other white people. Will this change the world? Nope. But this will change how I feel about what I can do tomorrow. It will keep me accountable for actively doing my part to dismantle oppressive systems. I hope that it encourages others to make public, time-based and specific (aka SMART goals) commitments to what they can do. Most importantly, this gives me a framework to move forward and know that I\u0026rsquo;m making small differences while I figure out where I can make big difference. Have questions, white women? Let\u0026rsquo;s talk.\n\\* The 100% of the time is really important here. In recovery circles, folks talk about the exception reinforcing the need for commitment. \"I'm going to have one drink on Thanksgiving because I can't handle my family\" reinforces the assertion that maybe the speaker needs to commit to abstinence. \"I'm going to fight racism _except_ this one time with my boss\" reinforces white supremacy and the speaker's alliance with oppressors. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/2018-10-06-i-commit/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHi. In a way, everything feels terrible \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/06/brett-kavanaugh-confirmed-us-supreme-court\"\u003eright now\u003c/a\u003e, doesn\u0026rsquo;t it?  I\u0026rsquo;m pretty tired of feeling terrible, and \u003cem\u003esuper\u003c/em\u003e tired of feeling like the country is in a new level of shit, when - let\u0026rsquo;s be honest - it\u0026rsquo;s been shit for everyone but white men since the beginning.  I hear a lot of people feeling powerless; folks are tired. Me too, y\u0026rsquo;all (and #metoo).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I commit"},{"content":"Until this month, I tracked each book that I read and shared them here. During the spring semester, I\u0026rsquo;m reading for my comprehensive exams and so already know what I\u0026rsquo;ll be reading for the next few months. I\u0026rsquo;m focusing on three areas: software engineering ethics, intersectional STS (science and technology studies), and the social history of computing. Once I\u0026rsquo;ve read all of these, I\u0026rsquo;ll write a long paper (about 8,000 words, or ~16 single-spaced pages) about what I\u0026rsquo;ve read. Then, I\u0026rsquo;ll sit for an oral exam with my committee. Then, I\u0026rsquo;m done! (Nothing left to do but a quick little dissertation.)\nThis is a long list, in alphabetical order. If you\u0026rsquo;re interested in reading or talking about any of these, let me know. It\u0026rsquo;s all i\u0026rsquo;m going to be doing until May.\nAbbate, J. (2000). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Abbate, J. (2012). Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing. (W. Aspray \u0026amp; T. J. Misa, Eds.). The MIT Press. Agar, J. (2003). The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Alexander-Floyd, N. G. (2012). Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post—Black Feminist Era. Feminist Formations, 24(1), 1–25. Ali, M. (2014). Towards a decolonial computing. In Ambiguous Technologies: Philosophical Issues, Practical Solutions, Human Nature (pp. 28–35). Lisbon, Portugal: International Society of Ethics and Information Technology. Retrieved from http://oro.open.ac.uk/41372/ Ali, S. M. (2016). A Brief Introduction to Decolonial Computing. XRDS, 22(4), 16–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/2930886 Alpern, K. D., Oldenquist, A., \u0026amp; Florman, S. C. (1983). Moral Responsibility for Engineers [with Commentaries]. Business \u0026amp; Professional Ethics Journal, 2(2), 39–56. Alpert-Abrams, H. (2018). Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(2), 6. Amrute, S. (2016). Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin. Duke University Press Books. Amrute, S. (n.d.). What Would A Techno-Ethics Look Like? | Platypus. Retrieved October 24, 2018, from http://blog.castac.org/2018/01/techno-ethics/ ASCE Code of Ethics. (2006). Aspray, W. 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The Hastings Center Report, 26(3), 9. https://doi.org/10.2307/3527925 Wilkes, M. V. (1985). Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer (First Edition edition). Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Winner, L. (2010). The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology. University of Chicago Press. Wisnioski, M. (2016). Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (Reprint edition). Place of publication not identified: The MIT Press. Yates, J. (2009). Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Yost, J. R. (2017). Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. (W. Aspray, Ed.) (1 edition). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Zuberi, T., \u0026amp; Bonilla-Silva, E. (2008). White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. Lanham: Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers. Zuboff, S. (1988). In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books. Zwitter, A. (2014). Big Data ethics. Big Data \u0026amp; Society, 1(2), 2053951714559253. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714559253 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-spring-2019/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eUntil this month, I tracked each book that I read and shared them here.  During the spring semester, I\u0026rsquo;m reading for my \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_examination\"\u003ecomprehensive exams\u003c/a\u003e and so already know what I\u0026rsquo;ll be reading for the next few months. I\u0026rsquo;m focusing on three areas: software engineering ethics, intersectional STS (science and technology studies), and the social history of computing.  Once I\u0026rsquo;ve read all of these, I\u0026rsquo;ll write a long paper (about 8,000 words, or ~16 single-spaced pages) about what I\u0026rsquo;ve read.  Then, I\u0026rsquo;ll sit for an oral exam with my committee.  Then, I\u0026rsquo;m done! (Nothing left to do but a quick little dissertation.)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: Spring 2019"},{"content":"This is just a quick overview post on what\u0026rsquo;s happening with Drupal.org (owned by the Drupal Association) collecting demographic information on it\u0026rsquo;s members. The current proposal is that the user profile form will have fields at least for gender and \u0026ldquo;ideally\u0026rdquo; for other demographic categories (race, sexual orientation, etc)\nAn incomplete history around 2010, there was an issue to expand Drupal\u0026rsquo;s gender field, which at the time had options for only male or female. This issue is long (154 comments) and notoriously full of vitriol and some of the best and worst of the Drupal community. The resolution was to lock the thread and leave the field as is.\nThat issue spawned (or was filed in parallel) with another issue to include pronouns on a user\u0026rsquo;s profile. In November 2011, the drupal.org gender field had the following options: male, female, transgender, other.\nThere was a related issue for adding an \u0026ldquo;about me\u0026rdquo; field to the profile. If you\u0026rsquo;re going through the comments of these issues, you\u0026rsquo;ll see some familiar names in all threads - some still active and known for their social justice work, and other still active and known for their active misogyny.\nother things have happened here in the middle (still looking to fill this in - I was not active in the community for a few years)\naround Feb 2017, there was an issue filed to Improve / \u0026ldquo;fix\u0026rdquo; the gender field.\nIn May 2017, I created Open Demographics - an open source project designed to crowd source the demographic fields.\nIn cooperation with the Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Contrib Team (disclosure: I founded DD\u0026amp;I, but Tara King and others have lead this initiative) took over Jesse Beachgender module and have been working to make it compatible with Open Demographics.\nOn May 9, Dries (the founder of Drupal) wrote a blog post announcing that Drupal.org was going to use the Open Demographics project to power the demographic portion of the user profile fields on Drupal.org.\nCurrent Status There is an open issue for this integration\nThere are conversations about why this data is necessary and what will be done with it (including how it will be stored, who will have access) when it is collected.\nThe gender field has been removed from drupal.org\nA pronoun field has been added\nOther Information (mostly for my reference)\nSage Sharp\u0026rsquo;s tweets on why D.o needs to collect gender as a barrier to registration (this was before the field was removed)\nGeek feminism wiki\u0026rsquo;s recap of the above\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/drupal-open-demographics/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis is just a quick overview post on what\u0026rsquo;s happening with Drupal.org (owned by the Drupal Association) collecting demographic information on it\u0026rsquo;s members.  The current proposal is that the user profile form will have fields at least for gender and \u0026ldquo;ideally\u0026rdquo; for other demographic categories (race, sexual orientation, etc)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Drupal and demographic information"},{"content":"This month marked the LAST SEMESTER OF PHD COURSEWORK for me. I completed another draft of my second year project, a revise and resubmit (accepted!), and got my comprehensive exam reading lists approved. I also spent a lot of time writing and thinking about the Amazon Echo\u0026rsquo;s role as a provider of legal testimony. Phew. Hopefully I won\u0026rsquo;t read a single book in December.\nBarad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press. Beck, J. (2018, November 26). The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor.’ Retrieved November 26, 2018, from https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/ Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press Books. Costanza-Chock, S. (2018). Design Justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 3189696). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Retrieved from https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3189696 Galič, M., Timan, T., \u0026amp; Koops, B.-J. (2017). Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories from the Panopticon to Participation. Philosophy \u0026amp; Technology, 30(1), 9–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-016-0219-1 Gottlieb, K. (n.d.). Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft. Gray, D. (2017). The Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance. In The Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance (pp. 249–294). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Koetsier, J. (2018, August 2). Amazon Echo, Google Home Installed Base Hits 50 Million; Apple Has 6% Market Share, Report Says. Retrieved November 18, 2018, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2018/08/02/amazon-echo-google-home-installed-base-hits-50-million-apple-has-6-market-share-report-says/ Kolitz, D. (n.d.). Would a BDSM Sex Robot Violate Asimov’s First Law of Robotics? Retrieved November 12, 2018, from https://gizmodo.com/would-a-bdsm-sex-robot-violate-asimovs-first-law-of-rob-1829595067 Love in another dimension: Japanese man ‘marries’ Hatsune Miku hologram. (2018, November 12). The Japan Times Online. Retrieved from https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/12/national/japanese-man-marries-virtual-reality-singer-hatsune-miku-hologram/ Mol, A. (2003). The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice. Durham: Duke University Press. Reardon, M. (2018, April 5). Alexa, Fitbit and Apple Watch are your digital snitches. Retrieved November 20, 2018, from https://www.cnet.com/news/alexa-fitbit-apple-watch-pacemaker-can-testify-against-you-in-court/ Taylor, D. (2003). The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press Books. Watts, A. (2017, April 26). Police use murdered woman’s Fitbit movements to charge her husband - CNN. Retrieved November 20, 2018, from https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/25/us/fitbit-womans-death-investigation-trnd/index.html ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-nov-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis month marked the LAST SEMESTER OF PHD COURSEWORK for me. I completed another draft of my second year project, a revise and resubmit (accepted!), and got my comprehensive exam reading lists approved. I also spent a lot of time writing and thinking about the Amazon Echo\u0026rsquo;s role as a provider of legal testimony.  Phew.  Hopefully I won\u0026rsquo;t read a single book in December.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: November 2018"},{"content":"A deadline for a revise and resubmit meant not a lot of other reading got done. Below was reading required for classes.\nAbbate, J. (2000). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft. (n.d.). #AoIR2016: Opening Keynote “The Platform Society” by José van Dijck. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ypiiSQTNqo brown, adrienne maree. (2017). Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press. Cooper, M. E. (2008). Life As Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Crawford, K., Lingel, J., \u0026amp; Karppi, T. (2015). Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4–5), 479–496. Eubanks, V. (2011). Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age (1St Edition edition). Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Ferguson, A. G. (2017). The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. New York: NYU Press. Haraway, D. J. (1996). Simians Cyborgs and Women. London: Free Association Books. Harding, S. (2008). Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press. Jasanoff, S. (2017). Virtual, visible, and actionable: Data assemblages and the sightlines of justice. Big Data \u0026amp; Society, 4(2), 2053951717724477. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717724477 Muñoz, J. E. (2009). Introduction. In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York, UNITED STATES: New York University Press. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/asulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865693 Nakamura, L. (2014). Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture. American Quarterly, 66(4), 919–941. Nash, C. J., \u0026amp; Browne, K. (2010). Queer Methods and Methodologies: An Introduction. In Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research. Farnham, UNITED KINGDOM: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Group. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/asulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=554552 Wolfson, T. (n.d.). Strategy Communications and the Switchboard of Struggle. In Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-oct-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA deadline for a revise and resubmit meant not a lot of other reading got done.  Below was reading required for classes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"csl-bib-body\" style=\"line-height: 2; margin-left: 2em; text-indent:-2em;\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eAbbate, J. (2000). \u003ci\u003eInventing the Internet\u003c/i\u003e. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-262-51115-5\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=Inventing%20the%20Internet\u0026amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C%20Mass.\u0026amp;rft.publisher=The%20MIT%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Janet\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Abbate\u0026amp;rft.au=Janet%20Abbate\u0026amp;rft.date=2000-07-31\u0026amp;rft.tpages=272\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-262-51115-5\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eAlexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft. (n.d.). \u003ci\u003e#AoIR2016: Opening Keynote “The Platform Society” by José van Dijck\u003c/i\u003e. Retrieved from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ypiiSQTNqo\"\u003ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ypiiSQTNqo\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc\u0026amp;rft.type=videoRecording\u0026amp;rft.title=%23AoIR2016%3A%20Opening%20Keynote%20%22The%20Platform%20Society%22%20by%20Jos%C3%A9%20van%20Dijck\u0026amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fsummer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-ypiiSQTNqo\u0026amp;rft.au=undefined\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003ebrown,  adrienne maree. (2017). \u003ci\u003eEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds\u003c/i\u003e. Chico, CA: AK Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-1-84935-260-4\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=Emergent%20Strategy%3A%20Shaping%20Change%2C%20Changing%20Worlds\u0026amp;rft.place=Chico%2C%20CA\u0026amp;rft.publisher=AK%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=adrienne%20maree\u0026amp;rft.aulast=brown\u0026amp;rft.au=adrienne%20maree%20brown\u0026amp;rft.date=2017-04-18\u0026amp;rft.tpages=280\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-1-84935-260-4\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eCooper, M. E. (2008). \u003ci\u003eLife As Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era\u003c/i\u003e. Seattle: University of Washington Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-295-98791-0\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=Life%20As%20Surplus%3A%20Biotechnology%20and%20Capitalism%20in%20the%20Neoliberal%20Era\u0026amp;rft.place=Seattle\u0026amp;rft.publisher=University%20of%20Washington%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Melinda%20E.\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Cooper\u0026amp;rft.au=Melinda%20E.%20Cooper\u0026amp;rft.date=2008-02-20\u0026amp;rft.tpages=208\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-295-98791-0\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eCrawford, K., Lingel, J., \u0026amp; Karppi, T. (2015). Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device. \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e18\u003c/i\u003e(4–5), 479–496.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Our%20metrics%2C%20ourselves%3A%20A%20hundred%20years%20of%20self-tracking%20from%20the%20weight%20scale%20to%20the%20wrist%20wearable%20device\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=European%20Journal%20of%20Cultural%20Studies\u0026amp;rft.volume=18\u0026amp;rft.issue=4-5\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Kate\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Crawford\u0026amp;rft.au=Kate%20Crawford\u0026amp;rft.au=Jessa%20Lingel\u0026amp;rft.au=Tero%20Karppi\u0026amp;rft.date=2015\u0026amp;rft.pages=479%E2%80%93496\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eEubanks, V. (2011). \u003ci\u003eDigital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age\u003c/i\u003e (1St Edition edition). Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-262-01498-4\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=Digital%20Dead%20End%3A%20Fighting%20for%20Social%20Justice%20in%20the%20Information%20Age\u0026amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C%20Mass\u0026amp;rft.publisher=The%20MIT%20Press\u0026amp;rft.edition=1St%20Edition%20edition\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Virginia\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Eubanks\u0026amp;rft.au=Virginia%20Eubanks\u0026amp;rft.date=2011-02-18\u0026amp;rft.tpages=288\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-262-01498-4\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eFerguson, A. G. (2017). \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement\u003c/i\u003e. New York: NYU Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-1-4798-9282-2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=The%20Rise%20of%20Big%20Data%20Policing%3A%20Surveillance%2C%20Race%2C%20and%20the%20Future%20of%20Law%20Enforcement\u0026amp;rft.place=New%20York\u0026amp;rft.publisher=NYU%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Andrew%20Guthrie\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Ferguson\u0026amp;rft.au=Andrew%20Guthrie%20Ferguson\u0026amp;rft.date=2017-10-03\u0026amp;rft.tpages=272\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4798-9282-2\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eHaraway, D. J. (1996). \u003ci\u003eSimians Cyborgs and Women\u003c/i\u003e. London: Free Association Books.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-1-85343-139-5\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=Simians%20Cyborgs%20and%20Women\u0026amp;rft.place=London\u0026amp;rft.publisher=Free%20Association%20Books\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Donna%20J.\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Haraway\u0026amp;rft.au=Donna%20J.%20Haraway\u0026amp;rft.date=1996-01-19\u0026amp;rft.tpages=288\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-1-85343-139-5\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eHarding, S. (2008). \u003ci\u003eSciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities\u003c/i\u003e. Durham: Duke University Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-8223-4282-3\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=book\u0026amp;rft.btitle=Sciences%20from%20Below%3A%20Feminisms%2C%20Postcolonialities%2C%20and%20Modernities\u0026amp;rft.place=Durham\u0026amp;rft.publisher=Duke%20University%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Sandra\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Harding\u0026amp;rft.au=Sandra%20Harding\u0026amp;rft.date=2008-06-25\u0026amp;rft.tpages=296\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8223-4282-3\u0026amp;rft.language=English\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eJasanoff, S. (2017). Virtual, visible, and actionable: Data assemblages and the sightlines of justice. \u003ci\u003eBig Data \u0026amp; Society\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e4\u003c/i\u003e(2), 2053951717724477. \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717724477\"\u003ehttps://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717724477\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F2053951717724477\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Virtual%2C%20visible%2C%20and%20actionable%3A%20Data%20assemblages%20and%20the%20sightlines%20of%20justice\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=Big%20Data%20%26%20Society\u0026amp;rft.stitle=Big%20Data%20%26%20Society\u0026amp;rft.volume=4\u0026amp;rft.issue=2\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Sheila\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Jasanoff\u0026amp;rft.au=Sheila%20Jasanoff\u0026amp;rft.date=2017-12-01\u0026amp;rft.pages=2053951717724477\u0026amp;rft.issn=2053-9517\u0026amp;rft.language=en\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eMuñoz, J. E. (2009). Introduction. In \u003ci\u003eCruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity\u003c/i\u003e. New York, UNITED STATES: New York University Press. Retrieved from \u003ca href=\"http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/asulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865693\"\u003ehttp://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/asulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865693\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-8147-5951-6\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=bookitem\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Introduction\u0026amp;rft.place=New%20York%2C%20UNITED%20STATES\u0026amp;rft.publisher=New%20York%20University%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Jos%C3%A9%20Esteban\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Mu%C3%B1oz\u0026amp;rft.au=Jos%C3%A9%20Esteban%20Mu%C3%B1oz\u0026amp;rft.date=2009\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8147-5951-6\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eNakamura, L. (2014). Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e66\u003c/i\u003e(4), 919–941.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Indigenous%20Circuits%3A%20Navajo%20Women%20and%20the%20Racialization%20of%20Early%20Electronic%20Manufacture\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=American%20Quarterly\u0026amp;rft.volume=66\u0026amp;rft.issue=4\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Lisa\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Nakamura\u0026amp;rft.au=Lisa%20Nakamura\u0026amp;rft.date=2014\u0026amp;rft.pages=919%E2%80%93941\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eNash, C. J., \u0026amp; Browne, K. (2010). Queer Methods and Methodologies: An Introduction. In \u003ci\u003eQueer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research\u003c/i\u003e. Farnham, UNITED KINGDOM: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Group. Retrieved from \u003ca href=\"http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/asulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=554552\"\u003ehttp://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/asulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=554552\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-7546-9663-6\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=bookitem\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Queer%20Methods%20and%20Methodologies%3A%20An%20Introduction\u0026amp;rft.place=Farnham%2C%20UNITED%20KINGDOM\u0026amp;rft.publisher=Taylor%20%26%20Francis%20Group\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Catherine%20J.\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Nash\u0026amp;rft.au=Catherine%20J.%20Nash\u0026amp;rft.au=Kath%20Browne\u0026amp;rft.date=2010\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7546-9663-6\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eWolfson, T. (n.d.). Strategy Communications and the Switchboard of Struggle. In \u003ci\u003eDigital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left.\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=bookitem\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Strategy%20Communications%20and%20the%20Switchboard%20of%20Struggle\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Todd\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Wolfson\u0026amp;rft.au=Todd%20Wolfson\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: October 2018"},{"content":"Welp, September is the first full month of the semester and it sure felt like it. This fall I\u0026rsquo;m in a class on Surveillance and Society with Marisa Duarte and Andrew Brown, and reading a book a week with Emma Frow. Those are reflected below, in addition to some reading for a journal article I\u0026rsquo;m working on. Next month, it\u0026rsquo;s back to my second year project and working on reading lists for my comprehensive exams.\nBousquet, A. J. (2010). Towards Chaoplexic Warfare? Network-Centric Warfare and the Non-Linear Sciences. In Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (1 edition, pp. 185–234). Oxford University Press. Choo, H. Y., \u0026amp; Ferree, M. M. (2010). Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities. Sociological Theory, 28(2), 129–149. Cooper, B. (2016). Intersectionality. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.20 Crews, E. (n.d.). Spies and Scouts, Secret Writing, and Sympathetic Citizens. Retrieved September 9, 2018, from http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Summer04/spies.cfm Dolson, B. (2014). Urban View Painting in Spanish Colonial Latin America: Mechanisms of Control in a Nascent Surveillance Society. Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, 7(1), 25–46. Dubrow, J. (2013). Why Should We Account for Intersectionality in Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data? In Intersectionality und kritik (pp. 161–177). Springer. Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline \u0026amp; Punish: The Birth of the Prison. (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York: Vintage Books. Funder, A. (2011). Stasiland. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers. Hancock, A.-M. (2007). When multiplication doesn’t equal quick addition: Examining intersectionality as a research paradigm. Perspectives on Politics, 5(1), 63–79. Irani, L. (2013). The cultural work of microwork. New Media \u0026amp; Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813511926 Pemberton, S. X. (2016). Prison. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.37 Porter, T. M. (1996). Trust in Numbers (Reprint edition). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Reinhartz, D., \u0026amp; Saxon, G. D. (2010). Mapping and empire: soldier-engineers on the Southwestern frontier. University of Texas Press. Smith, B. G. (2016). Temporality. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.47 Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform capitalism. John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons. Theoharis, A. (2011). A New Intelligence Paradigm: Surveillance and Preventative Detention. In Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11 (pp. 1–23). Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Tsing, A. (2017). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Reprint edition). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Wajcman, J. (2016). Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (Reprint edition). Chicago London: University of Chicago Press. Wernimont, J. (n.d.). Knowing Why Revolution Must Come: Digital Humanities as Poetry and Prayer, 6. Wingrove, E. (2016). Materialisms. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.23 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-sept-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWelp, September is the first full month of the semester and it sure felt like it.  This fall I\u0026rsquo;m in a class on Surveillance and Society with Marisa Duarte and Andrew Brown, and reading a book a week with Emma Frow.  Those are reflected below, in addition to some reading for a journal article I\u0026rsquo;m working on.  Next month, it\u0026rsquo;s back to my second year project and working on reading lists for my comprehensive exams.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: September 2018"},{"content":"This summer I wrote my second year project. As I gathered items, it didn\u0026rsquo;t make sense to list them all as \u0026ldquo;read\u0026rdquo; since I did a lot of skimming and extracting rather than wholesale reading. I\u0026rsquo;ve just sent the first draft of that project to my committee, but I\u0026rsquo;ll be open sourcing everything about that project when it\u0026rsquo;s approved.\nBelow is a list of books and articles I fully read this summer. Banner, O. (2017). Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Bowker, G. C., Baker, K., Millerand, F., \u0026amp; Ribes, D. (n.d.). Towards Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment, 20. Bowleg, L. (2008). When Black + Lesbian + Woman != Black Lesbian Woman: The Methodological Challenges of Qualitative and Quantitative Intersectionality Research. Sex Roles, 59(5–6), 312–325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9400-z Cheney-Lippold, J. (2017). We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves. New York: NYU Press. Christoffersen, A. (n.d.). Intersectional approaches to equality research and data. Retrieved May 8, 2018, from https://www.ecu.ac.uk/publications/intersectional-approaches-to-equality-research-and-data/ Collins, P. H., \u0026amp; Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality (1 edition). Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity. Else-Quest, N. M., \u0026amp; Hyde, J. S. (2016). Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(3), 319–336. Gitelman, L. (2013). Raw data is an oxymoron. MIT Press. Harvey, D. (2007). A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. James Gleick. (2011). The Information. S.I.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Retrieved from http://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BowAAAC4HAAA1k/products/d46545f2-0229-430c-b61f-314458ac6ed1 Mackenzie, A. (2006). Cutting Code: Software and Sociality. Peter Lang. Michael, M. G., Michael, K., \u0026amp; Perakslis, C. (2015). Uberveillance, the web of things, and people: What is the culmination of all this surveillance? IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 4(2), 107–113. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2015.2393007 Monahan, T. (2010). Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. Oluo, I. (2018). So You Want to Talk About Race. New York, NY: Seal Press. Raymond, E. S. (2001). The Cathedral \u0026amp; the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (1 edition). Beijing ; Cambridge, Mass: O’Reilly Media. Sandvig, C. (2017). Internet as Infrastructure - Oxford Handbooks, 27. Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press. Star, S. L., \u0026amp; Ruhleder, K. (1995). Steps toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces, 39. Yeo, M. (2010). Propaganda and Surveillance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition, 3(2). ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-summer-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis summer I wrote my second year project.  As I gathered items, it didn\u0026rsquo;t make sense to list them all as \u0026ldquo;read\u0026rdquo; since I did a \u003cem\u003elot\u003c/em\u003e of skimming and extracting rather than wholesale reading.   I\u0026rsquo;ve just sent the first draft of that project to my committee, but I\u0026rsquo;ll be open sourcing everything about that project when it\u0026rsquo;s approved.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: Summer (May-Aug) 2018"},{"content":"Today, I was honored to give the opening keynote at TexasCamp. The organizing team has done such a good job with this camp that the logistics have become invisible.\nBelow is the video of my talk:\nKevin Thull is a super Drupal hero for getting video of this up and for magically making my dog the thumbnail of the video. Thanks, Kevin!\nAs promised in that video above, here is a PDF of my slides.\nSource URLs:\nartist Lauren Vanni Balanced Ternary Systems Predictive Policing company Virginia Eubanks\u0026rsquo;s book Automating Inequality describes the use of software to provide services, including housing to individuals on skid row. where computers go when they are considered electronic waste Star Trek: The Next Generation Parallels CSI: Cyber Product translation fails Fighter Jet Cockpit fails and Lewontin, Richard, \u0026amp; Levins, Richard. Let the Numbers Speak + The Politics of Averages. In Biology Under The Influence (pp. 65–74). open demographics TEDxASU talk about open demographics Dries\u0026rsquo;s blog post about open demographics Dries\u0026rsquo;s blog about contrib numbers](https://dri.es/who-sponsors-drupal-development-2017) Diversity numbers and Diversity numbers and Diversity numbers Image/facial recognition failure Soap dispenser Uber\u0026rsquo;s Rides of Glory Google search autocomplete Racist camera Prison Reform (Parole Calculator) ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/texascampkeynote/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eToday, I was honored to give the opening keynote at \u003ca href=\"https://2018.texascamp.org/\"\u003eTexasCamp\u003c/a\u003e.  The organizing team has done such a good job with this camp that the logistics have become invisible.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelow is the video of my talk:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"TexasCamp 2018 Keynote"},{"content":"This month, I rewrote my second-year project proposal for the third and fourth times. (First and second iterations happened in January and February). Each complete rewrite brought with it a new or expanded set of literature. I also spent ten days traveling to DrupalCon Nashville and the Computing Research Association\u0026rsquo;s Grad Women\u0026rsquo;s Cohort.\nThe semester is over (!!) though I still have many tasks remaining.\nBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month. Adey, P. (2009). Facing Airport Security: Affect, Biopolitics, and the Preemptive Securitisation of the Mobile Body. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(2), 274–295. https://doi.org/10.1068/d0208 Albrechtslund, A. (2008). Online social networking as participatory surveillance. First Monday, 13(3). Retrieved from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2142 boyd, danah, \u0026amp; Crawford, K. (2012). CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA. Information, Communication and Society., 15(5), 662–679. Brock, A. (2018). Critical technocultural discourse analysis. New Media \u0026amp; Society, 20(3), 1012–1030. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816677532 Could Fitbit Data Be Used to Deny Health Coverage? (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2018, from https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-02-17/could-fitbit-data-be-used-to-deny-health-insurance-coverage Draper, K. (2018, March 13). Madison Square Garden Has Used Face-Scanning Technology on Customers. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/sports/facial-recognition-madison-square-garden.html Duhigg, C. (2012, February 16). How Companies Learn Your Secrets. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html February 27, M. B. P., \u0026amp; 2018. (2018, February 27). Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding. Retrieved February 27, 2018, from https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-pet-puppy-oberkassel-stone-age-dog/ Gillen, J., \u0026amp; Petersen, A. (Eds.). (2004). Discourse Analysis. In Research Methods in the Social Sciences (1 edition, pp. 146–153). London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications Ltd. Glaser, A. (2018, April 4). No Matter What Facebook Says, You Can’t Clean Up a Data Spill. Retrieved April 4, 2018, from https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/facebook-cant-clean-up-its-data-spill.html Grand View Research. (2016, February). Pet Wearable Market Size To Reach $2.36 Billion By 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2018, from https://www.grandviewresearch.com/press-release/global-pet-wearable-market Haggerty, K. D., \u0026amp; Ericson, R. V. (2000). The Surveillant Assemblage. The British Journal of Sociology, 51(4), 605–622. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071310020015280 Hassan, D. (2016). Surveillance by Proxy: Sport and Security in a Modern Age. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(9), 1043–1056. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764216632840 Iliadis, A., \u0026amp; Russo, F. (2016). Critical data studies: An introduction. Big Data \u0026amp; Society, 3(2), 2053951716674238. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716674238 Kitchin, R., \u0026amp; Lauriault, T. (2014). Towards Critical Data Studies: Charting and Unpacking Data Assemblages and Their Work (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2474112). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Retrieved from https://papers-ssrn-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/abstract=2474112 Lawson, S., Kirman, B., Linehan, C., Feltwell, T., \u0026amp; Hopkins, L. (2015). Problematising Upstream Technology Through Speculative Design: The Case of Quantified Cats and Dogs. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2663–2672). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702260 Lente, H. van, Swierstra, T., \u0026amp; Joly, P.-B. (2017). Responsible innovation as a critique of technology assessment. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 4(2), 254–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2017.1326261 Lupton, D. (2016). Digital companion species and eating data: Implications for theorising digital data–human assemblages. Big Data \u0026amp; Society, 3(1), 2053951715619947. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715619947 Mäkinen, L. A. (2016). Surveillance On/Off: Examining Home Surveillance Systems From The User’s Perspective. Surveillance \u0026amp; Society, 14(1), 59–77. Michael, K. (2015). Sousveillance: Implications for Privacy, Security, Trust, and the Law. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 4(2), 92–94. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2015.2393006 Michael, K. (2017). Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone, Social Media, and More?: The New AntiSocial App Could Help. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 6(4), 116–121. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2017.2714421 Neff, G., \u0026amp; Nafus, D. (2016). Self-Tracking. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Newman, K. (2018, January 29). Fitness App Reveals Remote Military Bases. Retrieved April 18, 2018, from https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-01-29/fitness-app-strava-reveals-military-security-oversight Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press. Oudheusden, M. van. (2014). Where are the politics in responsible innovation? European governance, technology assessments, and beyond. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1(1), 67–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2014.882097 Richards, N. (2013). The Dangers of Surveillance. Retrieved April 1, 2018, from https://harvardlawreview.org/2013/05/the-dangers-of-surveillance/ Ritvo, S. E., \u0026amp; Allison, R. S. (2017). Designing for the exceptional user: Nonhuman animal-computer interaction (ACI). Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 222–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.062 Seneviratne, S., Seneviratne, A., Mohapatra, P., \u0026amp; Mahanti, A. (2014). Your installed apps reveal your gender and more! In Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom workshop on Security and privacy in mobile environments (pp. 1–6). ACM. Weiss, G. M., Nathan, A., Kropp, J. B., \u0026amp; Lockhart, J. W. (2013). WagTag: A Dog Collar Accessory for Monitoring Canine Activity Levels. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication (pp. 405–414). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2495972 What Is a Telematics Device? | Allstate. (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2018, from https://www.allstate.com/tools-and-resources/car-insurance/telematics-device.aspx Yeshi. (2018, April 4). An Open Letter to Facebook from the Data for Black Lives Movement. Retrieved April 5, 2018, from https://medium.com/@YESHICAN/an-open-letter-to-facebook-from-the-data-for-black-lives-movement-81e693c6b46c Ziewitz, M. (2016). Governing Algorithms: Myth, Mess, and Methods. Science, Technology \u0026amp; Human Values, 41(1), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243915608948 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-april-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis month, I rewrote my second-year project proposal for the third and fourth times. (First and second iterations happened in January and February).  Each complete rewrite brought with it a new or expanded set of literature.  I also spent ten days traveling to DrupalCon Nashville and the Computing Research Association\u0026rsquo;s Grad Women\u0026rsquo;s Cohort.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: April 2018"},{"content":"Before it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my DrupalCon in tweets:\nGreat start to the #DrupalCon Community Summit - unconference in progress. pic.twitter.com/u01siSdB4X\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 9, 2018 The community summit is always great because the folks who attend are so passionate about making the community a better, safer, more welcoming place. Super #drupalfeels after today at #DrupalCon https://t.co/QBtJIiLFqC\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 10, 2018 Hey #DrupalCon, the @drupaldiversity photo booth is back. Come help us show what Drupalists look like. (And crash photos of @sugaroverflow @hussainweb ) pic.twitter.com/Y7JPmhZqpv\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 9, 2018 .@aburke626 talking about the biases women in STEM face: too feminine to be taken seriously; too masculine to be likable. 😡 #drupalcon\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 10, 2018 Hey #DrupalCon - come hear my talk \u0026quot;Exciting Ethical Engineering\u0026quot; in 101E at 2:15 (it will be VERY exciting, I promise) then stay for @eaton\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;You Matter More Than The Cause\u0026quot; at 2:50. You will leave with #feels after the hour.\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 10, 2018 You are not value neutral. And creating technology is a political act. Everyday that we go to work we have the option to be political in ways that suppprt or do not support our ethical frameworks @drnikki 🔥#DrupalCon\n\u0026mdash; Fatima Sarah Khalid (@sugaroverflow) April 10, 2018 In @_sagesharp_ \u0026#39;s Code of Conduct talk at #DrupalCon and I wish more community members were here. The Drupal community would be far safer if more people took an interest in CoCs, their purpose and their enforcement.\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 10, 2018 Hey #drupalcon, if you missed it, you can listen to \u0026quot;Exciting Ethical Engineering\u0026quot; here: https://t.co/WO23eMWN6z https://t.co/YL8dk40reY\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 11, 2018 .@Kalamuna is donating money to charities of our choice at #Drupalcon . #Drupal4Good come get your picture taken!! pic.twitter.com/f90i3UP1vh\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 11, 2018 #DrupalCon LGBTQIA+ (aka Drupal Rainbow) and allies meetup is in 203B starting now! Come!\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 11, 2018 hey #DrupalCon - #askDries anonymously. https://t.co/B0mCLGY6RQ\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) April 12, 2018 \u0026quot;We think it\u0026#39;s important to not just say we\u0026#39;re nice to people, but specifically to say we\u0026#39;re anti-racist.\u0026quot; @drnikki #DrupalCon\n\u0026mdash; Ivan Boothe (@rootwork) April 11, 2018 Adapted speaker submissions to collect data on underrepresented groups; moving toward adopting @drnikki\u0026#39;s Open Demographics Intiative as a module for d.ohttps://t.co/bsZPIgl48x@drupalassoc board mtg #DrupalCon\n\u0026mdash; Ivan Boothe (@rootwork) April 11, 2018 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/dcnashville-tweets/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBefore it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my DrupalCon in tweets:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGreat start to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/DrupalCon?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003e#DrupalCon\u003c/a\u003e Community Summit - unconference in progress. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/u01siSdB4X\"\u003epic.twitter.com/u01siSdB4X\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Recap: DrupalCon Nashville 2018"},{"content":"On March 31, I had the great opportunity to speak at TEDxASU.\nYou can watch the video here:\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/tedxasu/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOn March 31, I had the great opportunity to speak at TEDxASU.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can watch the video here:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/3P97-uiYWXU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e","title":"TEDxASU talk"},{"content":"This month, I spoke at TEDxASU. Preparing for that took nearly all of the time I would have normally spent reading. Oops! In my main seminar, we were assigned a few books instead of a slew of articles, so it\u0026rsquo;s a short list.\nBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month. Haraway, D. (2006). A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late 20th century. In The international handbook of virtual learning environments (pp. 117–158). Springer. Haraway, D. J. (2007). When Species Meet (1 edition). Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. Jasanoff, S. (2007). Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (New edition). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Latour, B. (1993). We Have Never Been Modern. (C. Porter, Trans.). Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Mantello, P. (2016). The machine that ate bad people: The ontopolitics of the precrime assemblage. Big Data \u0026amp; Society, 3(2), 2053951716682538. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716682538 Marwick, A. (2012). The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life. Surveillance \u0026amp; Society, 9(4), 378–393. Rapoport, M. (Michal). (2012). The Home Under Surveillance: A Tripartite Assemblage. Surveillance \u0026amp; Society, 10(3/4), 320–333. van der Vlist, F. N. (2017). Counter-Mapping Surveillance: A Critical Cartography of Mass Surveillance Technology After Snowden. Surveillance \u0026amp; Society, 15(1), 137–157. Winner, L. (2010). The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology. University of Chicago Press. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-march-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis month, I spoke at \u003ca href=\"/posts/tedxasu/\"\u003eTEDxASU\u003c/a\u003e. Preparing for that took nearly all of the time I would have normally spent reading.  Oops!  In my main seminar, we were assigned a few books instead of a slew of articles, so it\u0026rsquo;s a short list.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: March 2018"},{"content":"I had the great privilege of being selected as a Sackler Symposium Student Fellow this year. The Fellows Symposium had 48 speakers presenting their work, and it was a long and wonderful whirlwind. You can see all of it at the early end of the #CreateCollab2018 hashtag.\nThe few that I managed to capture:\nWilliam Wiebe: on the literal disappearance of bodies, how artists work with unanswerable questions, and the transformation of visual culture through machine learning #CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences pic.twitter.com/AfEkGvKN9l\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 Blindly in love with @mollycmorin’s work taking weight lifting data and making art #createcollab2018 @theNASciences pic.twitter.com/eBvhSWtruO\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 .@annaglassin linking tangible/bodied and virtual experiencing through virtual reality dance practices#CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 .@joannekcheung: to design just systems, those systems must be: modifiable, visible, equitable. #CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 Jennifer Jacobs: “code shapes practice and process in productive ways” for artists including computation in their work#CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 .@mollycmorin and @LieseZahabi have the best, and kindest, methods for telling speakers that they are out of time #createcollab2018 pic.twitter.com/PjjGvZ37MI\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 .@eirons talking about reactivating and reimagining the agency of the non-human, including soil\u0026#39;s ability to re-cover/re-disturb spaces covered by industrialization #CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 Peter Marting made a forest of glowing trees that blink with data collected from the forest; helps people engage with science research. #CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences pic.twitter.com/JDaHBam3oM\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 12, 2018 I spoke too:\nWelp, @drnikki wins the day at #CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences pic.twitter.com/R7ycjg73DL\n\u0026mdash; Gabi Like Wasabi (@GabiSchaffzin) March 12, 2018 .@drnikki on \u0026quot;inclusivity in data lifecycles\u0026quot;- data, justice, open source (how are we asking questions? a new standard?) \u0026quot;info takes the shape of its container\u0026quot; #CreateCollab2018 @theNASciences pic.twitter.com/q4dzgDxmWG\n\u0026mdash; Ellie Irons (@eirons) March 12, 2018 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/sackler-student-fellows/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI had the great privilege of being selected as a Sackler Symposium Student Fellow this year.  The Fellows Symposium had 48 speakers presenting their work, and it was a long and wonderful whirlwind.  You can see all of it at the early end of the #CreateCollab2018 hashtag.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Sackler Student Fellow Recap"},{"content":"For posterity, a few threads from this past week\u0026rsquo;s Sackler Colloquium.\nManeesh Agrawala\u0026rsquo;s talk deconstructing data visualizations\n.@magrawala is deconstructing charts and graphs for us at #createcollab2018 @theNASciences\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 13, 2018 A thread on Fernanda Viegas\u0026rsquo;s talk about Visualization in Machine Learning\n.@viegasf up next at #CreateCollab2018 \u0026quot;Fisualization as Lingua Franca in Machine Learning\u0026quot; @theNASciences\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 13, 2018 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/sackler/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor posterity, a few threads from this past week\u0026rsquo;s \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/completed_colloquia/Cybernetic_Serendipity.html\"\u003eSackler Colloquium\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManeesh Agrawala\u0026rsquo;s talk deconstructing data visualizations\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/magrawala?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003e@magrawala\u003c/a\u003e is deconstructing charts and graphs for us at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/createcollab2018?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003e#createcollab2018\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theNASciences?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003e@theNASciences\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/drnikki/status/973613569836310528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003eMarch 13, 2018\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA thread on Fernanda Viegas\u0026rsquo;s talk about Visualization in Machine Learning\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Sackler Symposium"},{"content":"This month I didn\u0026rsquo;t do a very good job of what I\u0026rsquo;d tried to do last month - which is focus on only a few things. I read widely for a few reasons\nassigned by professors works by professors who I may want to work with preparation for presentations research for second-year project I also spent a fair bit of time writing code in an academic context, and this list reflects some of that investigation.\nGoals for next month - read less widely. :)\nBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month. Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso Books. August 5, R. M. |, \u0026amp; ET, 2010 04:02am. (n.d.). The Incredible Explosion of Dog Breeds. Retrieved February 28, 2018, from https://www.livescience.com/8420-incredible-explosion-dog-breeds.html Bulkin, A. (2016, May 3). Explaining blockchain — how proof of work enables trustless consensus. Retrieved February 4, 2018, from https://keepingstock.net/explaining-blockchain-how-proof-of-work-enables-trustless-consensus-2abed27f0845 Cabana, D. A. (1998). Death At Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner (First Edition Later Impression edition). Princeton, NJ: Northeastern. CryptoRated. (2017, July 25). Blockchain Consensus Protocols: Proof of Work Vs. Proof of Stake. Retrieved February 4, 2018, from https://medium.com/@ico_reviews/blockchain-consensus-protocols-proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-6e8ba8d408cd Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete? (Uitgawe and Revised and Updated to Include New Develop and B edition). New York: Seven Stories Press. Dennis, M. (2004). Reconstruction Socio-Technical Order: VAnnevar Bush and US Science Policy. In The Co-Production of Science and Social Order. Routledge. Duarte, M. E. (2017). Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Duarte, M. E., \u0026amp; Belarde-Lewis, M. (2015). Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies. Cataloging \u0026amp; Classification Quarterly, 53(5–6), 677–702. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1018396 Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. Ezrahi, Y. (2004). Science and the political imagination in contemporary democracies. States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order, 254. Holloway, L. X. (1974). Prison Abolition or Destruction Is a Must. Mississippi Law Journal, 45(3), 757–762. Jasanoff, S., \u0026amp; others. (2004). States of knowledge: the co-production of science and the social order. Routledge. Mancini, C. (2017). Towards an animal-centred ethics for Animal–Computer Interaction. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 98, 221–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.04.008 Parker, H. (2012). Genomic analyses of modern dog breeds. Mammalian Genome, 23(1/2), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-011-9387-6 Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press. Sprawling Maya cities uncovered by lasers. (2018, February 2). BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42916261 Viegas, J. (2014, January 31). Dog Family Tree Traced Back 2 Million Years. Retrieved February 28, 2018, from https://www.seeker.com/dog-family-tree-traced-back-2-million-years-1768258806.html Wernimont, J. (2018). Numbered Lives. MIT Press. Wittrock, B., \u0026amp; Wagner, P. (1996). Social science and the building of the early welfare state: Toward a comparison of statist and non-statist Western societies. States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies, 90–113. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-feb-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis month I didn\u0026rsquo;t do a very good job of what I\u0026rsquo;d tried to do last month - which is focus on only a few things.  I read widely for a few reasons\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: February 2018"},{"content":"This month, I\u0026rsquo;m focused on getting a few big presentations ready, and writing a three large projects. I\u0026rsquo;m trying not to get interested in anything new (which is hard, because there\u0026rsquo;s so many good and interesting things!), but instead to produce something from all of my questioning last semester.\nI have assigned reading to do, of course, but over the next 4 months, I\u0026rsquo;m going to be reading and writing exclusively in the following areas (or I\u0026rsquo;ll never get anything done):\nepistemological structures of computing systems \u0026amp; their parallels to non-computing systems (aka, blockchain and whisper networks) the boundaries of an ethical engineer\u0026rsquo;s abilities and responsibilities ethical demographic data collection in (open source) technology communities Below is a list of books and articles I read this month. Bartlett, R. D. (2017, September 8). Blockchain Doesnt Decentralise Power. Retrieved January 3, 2018, from https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/blockchain-doesnt-decentralise-power-5918c168e6f6 Bernstein, M. (1997). Celebration and suppression: The strategic uses of identity by the lesbian and gay movement. American Journal of Sociology, 103(3), 531–565. Building A Cultural Dialogue Around The Permanent, Blockchain Web. (n.d.). Retrieved January 3, 2018, from https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/building-a-cultural-dialogue-around-the-permanent-blockchain-web Carlson, W. B. (2013). Innovation and the Modern Corporation. Companion Encyclopedia of Science in the Twentieth Century, 203. Dupont, Q. (2017). Blockchain Identities: Notational Technologies for Control and Management of Abstracted Entities. Metaphilosophy, 48(5), 634–653. Fitzgerald, D. (1997). Mastering Nature and Yeoman. In Science in the 20th Century. Taylor and Francis. Goodwin, J., \u0026amp; Jasper, J. (Eds.). (2003). The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. Harris, F. C. (2006). It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement. Social Movement Studies, 5(1), 19–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742830600621159 Jarvie, K., Rolan, G., \u0026amp; Soyka, H. (2017). Why ‘radical recordkeeping’? Archives and Manuscripts, 45(3), 173–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2017.1384299 Lansing, J. S. (2012). Perfect order: recognizing complexity in Bali. Princeton University Press. McAdam, D., \u0026amp; Kloos, K. (2014). Deeply Divided: racial politics and social movements in postwar America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Mendelsohn, E. (2013). Science, scientists, and the military. Science in the Twentieth Century, 175–202. Pestre, D. (2013). Science, political power and the state. Science in the Twentieth Century, 61–76. Porter, T. M. (2003). The management of society by numbers. Companion to Science in the Twentieth Century, 97–110. Reger, J., Myers, D. J., \u0026amp; Einwohner, R. L. (Eds.). (2008). Identity work in social movements. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Tekobbe, C., \u0026amp; McKnight, J. C. (2016). Indigenous cryptocurrency: Affective capitalism and rhetorics of sovereignty. First Monday, 21(10). Retrieved from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6955 Williams, J. E. (2002). Linking Beliefs to collective action: politicized religious beliefs and the civil rights movement. Sociological Forum, 17, 203–222. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-jan-2018/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis month, I\u0026rsquo;m focused on getting a few big presentations ready, and writing a three large projects.  I\u0026rsquo;m trying not to get interested in anything new (which is hard, because there\u0026rsquo;s so many good and interesting things!), but instead to produce something from all of my questioning last semester.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: January 2018"},{"content":"i write code in public\u0026hellip; Over the semester break, I cleaned up my filing system and archived all of the writing that I did last semester - approximately 30,000 words. As I was putting it away, and sometimes even as I was writing it, I thought - what a shame that I can\u0026rsquo;t do anything else with all of this work\u0026hellip;\nI\u0026rsquo;ve thought often about the disconnect between the way that I write code and the way that I write (non-code) words. When I start a technical project, the first thing I do is create a public repository and I begin making a mess of it, as publicly as possible. For a while, I was shy about the starts and stops and mistakes, visible in commit messages like adding mongoDB followed immediately by removing mongoDB wtf have i done. Over time, I\u0026rsquo;ve realized a few important things about this process of public software making:\nwe all work in meandering and experimental ways public meandering helps to normalize the process I\u0026rsquo;m not interested in selling anyone (especially myself) visions of a smooth and error-free creation process, especially with something as intricate as software. \u0026hellip; so why not words? I was struggling to link this public software process to creating a public academic writing process until I stumbled across this quote by Michelle Moravec:\nAcademic writing practices mystify the labor writing takes. The commodification of ideas as currency in academia means that writing is often concealed until publication, leaving the interim versions in the struggle towards a publishable version unseen. (source).\nWhat I love so much about open source is that it totally demystifies the process of how something is created. If someone has the time, they can go back through every bump in the road, every wtf commit message, and every issue to see the evolution of a project. I recently got to read a pre-release copy of a faculty member\u0026rsquo;s book. It felt a bit like looking behind the curtain, and when I saw mistakes, and omissions and evidence of copying and pasting I was delighted. It helped to demystify, a little, the process of creating such a large and impressive text.\nretroactive exposure I wrote for two classes last semester, and I made a folder for each of them in a public repository. Where possible, I put in a graded copy of the assignment - the professor\u0026rsquo;s work is part of the process, and showing my work as though it were all well-received would be false, and might contribute to the idea that this experience is not full of shortcomings and attempts that are not quite right, whatever the reason.\nreal-time exposure Putting in work that\u0026rsquo;s already done and graded and which I already feel disconnected from was one thing. It\u0026rsquo;s entirely another to share work that I\u0026rsquo;m about to submit or (even more vulnerably) that I\u0026rsquo;m still figuring out. But that\u0026rsquo;s the point of it all. So in addition to adding a folder for the class I\u0026rsquo;m in this semester (a second seminar about the foundations of STS), I\u0026rsquo;ve also added a section for works in progress and things that will get made this semester. I\u0026rsquo;m committing to publicly share this as I work on it and as I make more commits like wtf why is this so hard.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/writing-in-the-open/","summary":"\u003ch4 id=\"i-write-code-in-public\"\u003ei write code in public\u0026hellip;\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the semester break, I cleaned up my filing system and archived all of the writing that I did last semester - approximately 30,000 words.  As I was putting it away, and sometimes even as I was writing it, I thought - what a shame that I can\u0026rsquo;t do anything else with all of this work\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Writing in the Open"},{"content":"(this was originally posted on the HASTAC website as part of my HASTAC 17-19 Scholars participation.)\nThe bibliography that follows is a first iteration of works that I’m gathering to explore epistemological and structural parallels between distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain) and whisper networks (as defined as “An informal chain of conversations among members of an oppressed or marginalized group about oppressors who need to be watched because of predatory behavior” expanded from definition here). I’m curious about similar protocols for membership, (de)escalation of information, and shared ownership of knowledge.\u0026nbsp; It seems to me that maybe the blockchain could be a first attempt at digitally representing something close to the organic way that secrets are shared among trusted groups.\nIf you're looking at something similar, or have resources you think I should add, let me know!\u0026nbsp;\n\u0026nbsp;\nAdkins, K. (2017). Gossip, Epistemology, and Power: Knowledge Underground. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Ast, A. F., \u0026amp; Sewrjugin, A. (2015). The crowdjury, a crowdsourced justice system for the collaboration era. Barabas, C., \u0026amp; Schmidt, P. (2016). Transforming Chaos into Clarity: The Promises and Challenges of Digital Credentialing. Barlow, J. P. (2016, January 20). A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Retrieved January 8, 2018, from https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence Bartlett, R. D. (2017, September 8). Blockchain Doesnt Decentralise Power. Retrieved January 3, 2018, from https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/blockchain-doesnt-decentralise-power-5918c168e6f6 Bartling, S., \u0026amp; Fecher, B. (2016). Blockchain for science and knowledge creation - A technical fix to the reproducibility crisis ? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.60223 Barton, P. (2015). Bitcoin and the Politics of Distributed Trust. Retrieved from https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/handle/10066/16548 Beller, J. (2016, June 1). Informatic Labor in the Age of Computational Capital. Retrieved January 3, 2018, from http://csalateral.org/issue/5-1/informatic-labor-computational-capital-beller/ Benjamin, G. (2017). PRIVACY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. Journal of Media Critiques [JMC], 3(10). https://doi.org/10.17349/jmc117204 Blankenship, J. R. (2017). Forging Blockchains: Spatial Production and Political Economy of Decentralized Cryptocurrency Code/Spaces (M.A.). University of South Florida, United States -- Florida. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1899198013/abstract/AE399E2E4A6D4CFAPQ/1 Building A Cultural Dialogue Around The Permanent, Blockchain Web. (n.d.). Retrieved January 3, 2018, from https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/building-a-cultural-dialogue-around-the-permanent-blockchain-web Daly, A., Carlson, A., \u0026amp; Van Geelen, T. (2017). Data and Fundamental Rights (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 3072106). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Retrieved from https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3072106 Dan McQuillan. (2016). Algorithmic paranoia and the convivial alternative. Big Data \u0026amp; Society, 3(2), 2053951716671340. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716671340 Dupont, Q. (2017). Blockchain Identities: Notational Technologies for Control and Management of Abstracted Entities. Metaphilosophy, 48(5), 634–653. Findlay, C. (2017). Participatory cultures, trust technologies and decentralisation: innovation opportunities for recordkeeping. Archives and Manuscripts, 45(3), 176–190. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2017.1366864 Fricker, M. (2009). Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (1 edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. George, O. M. (2015). Bridging Bitcoin’s Gender Gap Student Notes. New York University Journal of Law and Business, 12, 423–458. Jackson, G. (2017). Queer Practices, Queer Rhetoric, Queer Technologies: Studies of Digital Performativity in Gendered Network Culture. Jarvie, K., Rolan, G., \u0026amp; Soyka, H. (2017). Why ‘radical recordkeeping’? Archives and Manuscripts, 45(3), 173–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2017.1384299 Kavanagh, D., McGarraghy, S., \u0026amp; Kelly, S. (2015). Ethnography in and around an Algorithm. Presented at the 30th EGOS Colloquium: Sub-theme 15: (SWG) Creativity, Reflexivity and Responsibility in Organizational Ethnography, Athens, Greece, 3 - 5 July 2015. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.ucd.ie/handle/10197/7348 McQuillan, D. (2017). The Anthropocene, resilience and post-colonial computation. Resilience, 5(2), 92–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2016.1240779 Pazaitis, A., De Filippi, P., \u0026amp; Kostakis, V. (2017). Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 125(Supplement C), 105–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.025 Reijers, W., \u0026amp; Coeckelbergh, M. (2016). The Blockchain as a Narrative Technology: Investigating the Social Ontology and Normative Configurations of Cryptocurrencies. Philosophy \u0026amp; Technology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-016-0239-x Stinchcombe, K. (2017, December 22). Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain. Retrieved January 1, 2018, from https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100?mc_cid=0d9d0046f5\u0026amp;mc_eid=330d66693d Swan, M., \u0026amp; de Filippi, P. (2017). Toward a Philosophy of Blockchain: A Symposium: Introduction. Metaphilosophy, 48(5), 603–619. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12270 Tekobbe, C., \u0026amp; McKnight, J. C. (2016). Indigenous cryptocurrency: Affective capitalism and rhetorics of sovereignty. First Monday, 21(10). Retrieved from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6955 Velasco, P. R. (2016). Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical Research of Digital Affordances. In Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (pp. 99–122). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40700-5_6 What would feminist data visualization look like? | MIT Center for Civic Media. (n.d.). Retrieved January 5, 2018, from https://civic.mit.edu/feminist-data-visualization Wolowiec, M. S. (2017). Blockshare – Analyzing the Potential for Building a Direct Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy on Blockchain. Retrieved from https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi:443/handle/123456789/28717 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/block-chain-whisper-network/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(this was \u003ca href=\"https://www.hastac.org/blogs/nikkistevens/2018/01/09/bibliography-blockchain-and-whisper-networks\"\u003eoriginally posted\u003c/a\u003e on the HASTAC website as part of my HASTAC 17-19 Scholars participation.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bibliography that follows is a first iteration of works that I’m gathering to explore epistemological and structural parallels between distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain) and whisper networks (as defined as “An informal chain of conversations among members of an oppressed or marginalized group about oppressors who need to be watched because of predatory behavior” expanded from definition \u003ca href=\"“http://www.newsweek.com/what-whisper-network-sexual-misconduct-allegations-719009”\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e). I’m curious about similar protocols for membership, (de)escalation of information, and shared ownership of knowledge.\u0026nbsp; It seems to me that maybe the blockchain could be a first attempt at digitally representing something close to the organic way that secrets are shared among trusted groups.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Bibliography: Blockchain and whisper networks"},{"content":"(this was originally posted on the HASTAC website as part of my HASTAC 17-19 Scholars participation.)\nI started a PhD program this semester, and I vowed not to repeat some of the mistakes of my master's thesis. I mean, I made many mistakes, but two are relevant here:\nI did not do a good job of tracking what I read. This meant that I when I would try to find Smart Thing\u0026nbsp;so that I could use it, and I couldn't remember where I'd read it. I spent a lot of time retracing my steps from source A to source B to find things. I did not do a good job of taking notes on what I read. This meant that when I finally found that Smart Thing that Scholar had said, I couldn't remember how I wanted to use it or what place I'd found for it in my work.\u0026nbsp; So to avoid mistake #1, I'm using\u0026nbsp;Zotero to store items, generate bibliographies, and to insert citations into documents (all the standard stuff ). I followed fairly closely an updated version of the Zotero + Zotfile + Zotpad workflow described here. I can say that I am doing a good job of keeping track of everything\u0026nbsp;that I've been reading and Zotero makes it simple for me to do a full-text search of my entire library to relocate a specific Smart Thing that I read once.\nWhen I started taking notes on things that I was reading (to avoid mistake #2), I stored those notes along with the item itself in Zotero. Sometimes they were just notes, but most often I would write up a formal, public-facing annotation that I could share with other students or professors. I assumed (incorrectly) that since Zotero is powered by an SQL database, surely there would be an easy way for me to generate an annotated bibliography with my own annotations instead of the items' abstracts.\nI couldn't find an easy way; so, I wrote one. This script\u0026nbsp;will go through your entire Zotero account\u0026nbsp;and search for items\u0026nbsp;that match a certain criteria.\u0026nbsp; It will then go and get any annotations for that item (and it knows how to distinguish a formal \"annotation\" note from just a \"i hope no one sees this private jumbling of thoughts\" note).\u0026nbsp; It will then print out the citation (in whatever format you wish) and then the annotation.\u0026nbsp; And magic!\u0026nbsp; An annotated bibliography\u0026nbsp;that's perfect for comps or for when someone just casually asks you to send them all your notes on a topic.\nWhat's not magic is that in order to use this script, you'll need to be comfortable editing a Python file\u0026nbsp;and running it in your terminal. I wish I had a more universally accessible offering, but I'm hopeful that by sharing this, folks will contribute to it and that over time it will become something that can be used by the majority of people who, let's face it, do not want to run Python just to generate a bibliography.\nTake a look at the script itself and then read these instructions to get started.\u0026nbsp;If you have any suggestions for improvement (there are still a few bugs, too) feel free to comment here or\u0026nbsp;open an issue\u0026nbsp;on\u0026nbsp;GitHub\u0026nbsp;if you feel comfortable doing so.\u0026nbsp;\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/zotero-annotated-bibliography/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(this was \u003ca href=\"https://www.hastac.org/blogs/nikkistevens/2018/01/04/generate-annotated-bibliography-zotero\"\u003eoriginally posted\u003c/a\u003e on the HASTAC website as part of my HASTAC 17-19 Scholars participation.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI started a PhD program this semester, and I vowed not to repeat some of the mistakes of my master's thesis. I mean, I made \u003cem\u003emany\u003c/em\u003e mistakes, but two are relevant here:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Use Zotero to generate an annotated bibliography"},{"content":"The semester is finally over! I made it out without too many tears, and I spent the semester break doing some school reading but mostly I read junk and loved it.\nBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month for school. Fricker, Miranda. Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. 1 edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Langdon, Pat, Daniel Johnson, Felicia Huppert, and P. John Clarkson. “A Framework for Collecting Inclusive Design Data for the UK Population.” Applied Ergonomics, Special Issue: Inclusive Design, 46, no. Part B (January 1, 2015): 318–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2013.03.011. Mezzofiore, Gianluca. “Stephen Hawking Reminds Us Technology Will Kill Us All and It’s All Our Fault.” Mashable, March 7, 2017. http://mashable.com/2017/03/07/stephen-hawking-technology-kill-us-all/. Nelson, Alondra. Social Life of DNA. Beacon Press, n.d. O’Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. First edition.., 2016. Van den Eynden, Veerle, Louise Corti, Matthew Woollard, Libby Bishop, and Laurence Horton. “Managing and Sharing Data: A Best Practice Guide for Researchers.” UK Data ARchive, 2011. http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/media/2894/managingsharing.pdf. Some of the above are pictured below - amongst the fun things I read while on semester break.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-dec-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe semester is finally over! I made it out without too many tears, and I spent the semester break doing some school reading but mostly I read junk and loved it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: December 2017"},{"content":"November was a shorter school month, and was mostly filled with doing everything I could to get things ready for spring and wrapped up for fall. I did a lot of writing for assignments and projects, and made a conscious effort to not read more than I needed to and to instead work to integrate what I\u0026rsquo;d already read.\nBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month. Ackerman, S. (2015, July 13). “A national hero”: psychologist who warned of torture collusion gets her due. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jul/13/psychologist-torture-doctors-collusion-jean-maria-arrigo Arrigo, J. (2004). A utilitarian argument against torture interrogation of terrorists. Science and Engineering Ethics, 10(3), 543–572. Bloche, M. G. (2017, August 12). Opinion | When Torture Becomes Science. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/sunday/when-torture-becomes-science.html Drupal.org. (2014, May 28). Replace “master/slave” terminology with “primary/replica.” Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 Eidelson, R. (2017, October 13). Perspective | Psychologists are facing consequences for helping with torture. It’s not enough. Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/psychologists-are-facing-consequences-for-helping-with-torture-its-not-enough/2017/10/13/2756b734-ad14-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html Fink, S. (2017a, June 21). Psychologists Open a Window on Brutal C.I.A. Interrogations. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/20/us/cia-torture.html Fink, S. (2017b, June 22). Interrogation, Torture and Personal Responsibility. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/insider/interrogation-torture-and-personal-responsibility.html Kertzer, D., \u0026amp; Arel, D. (2002). Census and identity : the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national census. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. Kornblum, J. (2013, September 14). It’s time to eliminate bro-culture from the tech industry. Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.salon.com/2013/09/14/how_bro_culture_has_been_hardwired_to_the_tech_industry_partner/ Lambrinidou, Y., Rhoads, W., Roy, S., Heaney, E., Ratajczak, G., \u0026amp; Ratajczak, J. (2014). Ethnography in Engineering Ethics Education: A Pedagogy for Transforma-tional Listening. In 121st American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference \u0026amp; Exposition,. Retrieved from http://www.asee.org/file_server/papers/attachment/file/0004/4484/ASEE_2014_-_Lambrinidou_et_al.pdf Mian, Z. (2015). Out of the nuclear shadow: Scientists and the struggle against the Bomb. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 71(1), 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096340214563680 Miller, C. C. (2014, April 5). Technology’s Man Problem. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html Nieto-Gomez, R. (2014). Walls, Sensors and Drones: Technology and Surveillance on the US–Mexico Border. In Borders, fences and walls state of insecurity? (pp. 191–211). Phillips, K. W., \u0026amp; Phillips, K. W. (n.d.). How Diversity Makes Us Smarter. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1014-42 Psychologists’ Work in National Security Settings and Reaffirmation of the APA Position Against Torture. (n.d.). Retrieved November 4, 2017, from http://www.apa.org/about/policy/national-security.aspx Rubinson, P. (2011). “Crucified on a Cross of Atoms”: Scientists, Politics, and the Test Ban Treaty. Diplomatic History, 35(2), 283–319. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2010.00950.x The Walls in Our Heads - The New York Times. (n.d.). Retrieved November 21, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/the-walls-in-our-heads.html?mtrref=undefined\u0026amp;assetType=opinion\u0026amp;mtrref=undefined\u0026amp;gwh=E1897B3367BB9A3394D64F828248998E\u0026amp;gwt=pay\u0026amp;assetType=opinion Tong, R. (1993). Feminine and feminist ethics. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Pub. Co. Wajcman, J. (2004). TechnoFeminism (1 edition). Cambridge ; Malden, MA: Polity. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-nov-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNovember was a shorter school month, and was mostly filled with doing everything I could to get things ready for spring and wrapped up for fall. I did a \u003cem\u003elot\u003c/em\u003e of writing for assignments and projects, and made a conscious effort to not read more than I needed to and to instead work to integrate what I\u0026rsquo;d already read.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: November 2017"},{"content":"I spent October juggling projects (many not my own), and found that I was returning to some fundamental questions that I left unanswered (or didn\u0026rsquo;t answer satisfactorily) at the start of the semester:\nwhat difference do professional codes of ethics make if people don\u0026rsquo;t follow them if people wanted to follow their professional codes, would they be free to do so? (and, a classic) is ethical engineering even possible under a corrupt capitalist system? Below is a list of books and articles I read this month. Basart, J., \u0026amp; Serra, M. (2013). Engineering Ethics Beyond Engineers’ Ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics, 19(1), 179–187. Brookfield, S. D. (2014). Foundations of Critical Theory. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 16(4), 417–428. Callon, M. (1984). Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. The Sociological Review, 32(1_suppl), 196–233. Campbell, N. D. (2009). Reconstructing science and technology studies: Views from feminist standpoint theory. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 30(1), 1–29. Campbell, N. D., \u0026amp; Fonow, M. M. (2009). Introduction: Introducing Knowledge That Matters. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 30(1), xi–xix. Cohn, C. (1987). Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals. Signs, 12(4), 687–718. Cowan, R. S. (1976). The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century. Technology and Culture, 17(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.2307/3103251 Cussins, Charis Thompson. (1999). Confessions of a Bioterrorist: Subject Position and Reproductive Technologies. In Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions (p. 30). Rutgers. Jasanoff, S. (1990). American Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgment of Risk. Daedalus, 119(4), 61–81. Jasanoff, S. (1998). The eye of everyman: Witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial. Social Studies of Science, 28(5–6), 713–740. Johnson, D. G. (1989). The social/professional responsibility of engineers. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 577(1), 106–114. Levins, R. (2000). Is Capitalism a Disease? The Crisis in U.S. Public Health. (cover story). Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, 52(4), 8. Levins, R., \u0026amp; Lewonton, R. (1985). The Commoditization of Science. In The dialectical biologist (pp. 100–116). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Mahmod, M., Yusof, S. A. M., \u0026amp; Dahalin, Z. M. (2010). Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective. In 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology (Vol. 3, pp. 1433–1438). https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561496 Martin, M. (2006). Moral creativity in science and engineering. Science and Engineering Ethics, 12(3), 421–433. Ottinger, G. (2013). Refining expertise how responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges. New York: New York University Press. Pecujlija, M., Cosic, I., Nesic-Grubic, L., \u0026amp; Drobnjak, S. (2015). Corruption: Engineers are Victims, Perpetrators or Both? Science and Engineering Ethics, 21(4), 907–923. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9569-1 Pesch, U. (2015). Engineers and Active Responsibility. Science and Engineering Ethics, 21(4), 925–939. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9571-7 Porter, T. (1996). U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis. In Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: Princeton University Press. Software engineering code of ethics and professional practice. (2001). Science and Engineering Ethics, 7(2), 231–238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-001-0044-4 One of the things I love most about working hard is tracking how hard I'm working. Total number of pages (including only the content above that contained page number data) read this month: 210.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-oct-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spent October juggling projects (many not my own), and found that I was returning to some fundamental questions that I left unanswered (or didn\u0026rsquo;t answer satisfactorily) at the start of the semester:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: October 2017"},{"content":"Sharing some thoughts about Robert Pielke\u0026rsquo;s The Honest Broker and whether it\u0026rsquo;s applicable to technology contexts.\nOften, when we talk about science and technology, we talk about them as one field: “science and technology.” We acknowledge the imaginaries of both and then combine them into an even more monolithic imaginary of S\u0026amp;T. However, Pielke only discusses science. What, then, of technology in his framework?\nAmong it’s many uses, science can discover the natural laws/reality of the world we live in. We embed our values into scientific practice and policy and our values certainly become apparent when we choose where to invest money; but sometimes the outcome of scientific research - like the “discovery” of gravity - simply is. Gravity itself is value-neutral.\nI believe that there is no value-neutral technological equivalent. All technology, and indeed everything that we make, is value embedded. Does this inherent difference mean that Pielke’s work is only for science and not “science and technology”?\nLet’s look at his useful thought experiment of Tornado and Abortion politics. In Pielke’s construction, we need Tornado politics as a contrast to Abortion politics. Finding a technology equivalent of Abortion politics is not hard to do. A good candidate is the use of criminal justice algorithms. These algorithms are often used to determine length of sentencing, whether to release an inmate on parole, or bail amounts. There are different types of algorithms, but their function is to estimate the likelihood that an individual will be a repeat offender.\nMapping this to Pielke’s chart, the algorithms are used to rationalize punishment, justify racist/biased decisions, are applied selectively, are part of an emotional narrative and are a means of maintaining power (43). A perfect fit.\nTo what can we contrast that in technology? Tornado politics requires values consensus and low uncertainty. What technology exists that has values consensus? In the case of the tornado, the role of science is to help people determine facts about a scientific phenomenon - in this case, a weather event. There is no contest about the inherent goodness or evil of the tornado itself. As Pielke states, in Tornado Politics “once everyone obtains a shared level of understanding a preferred course of action will become obvious and non-controversial” (42). This is simply not possible when making decisions about/with technology.\nIf the thought experiment does not map, do the corresponding roles? Yes and no.\nThe “Pure Technologist” embodies nearly everything that’s wrong with technology today - focusing only on what technology is capable of and not at all on its uses or impacts.\nThe “Technology Issue Advocate” is certainly evident when you examine debates about AI or surveillance technology. It’s trickier because one cannot be an expert in technology the way that one can be an expert in a discipline of science.\nThe “Technology Arbiter” focuses on issues that can be resolved by technology. This seems straightforward enough, but technologists do a very poor job of anticipating the impacts of their technologies. Thus, problems involving technological solutions don’t meet some of Pielke’s criteria for simple decisions - the problems are not bounded, and there is infinite ambiguity in the number of choices (24).\nI also have my doubts about the “Honest Broker of Technology Policy Alternatives.” Because so much technology is ambiguous and open to interpretation, even the title “Honest Broker” is inappropriate.\nGiven that the roles above don’t map perfectly to the technology imaginary, how can we envision the roles of technologists in making policy decisions?\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/honest-broker/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSharing some thoughts about Robert Pielke\u0026rsquo;s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Honest-Broker-Making-Science-Politics/dp/0521694817\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Honest Broker\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and whether it\u0026rsquo;s applicable to technology contexts.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften, when we talk about science and technology, we talk about them as one field: “science and technology.”  We acknowledge the imaginaries of both and then combine them into an even more monolithic imaginary of S\u0026amp;T.  However, Pielke only discusses science.  What, then, of technology in his framework?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The Honest Broker"},{"content":"I spent September struggling to stay afloat. The way work was structured, I was able to spend time thinking about fewer ideas, but exploring them more fully. This month, those ideas were:\nwhat can one expect to achieve by encouraging engineers to talk about their \u0026ldquo;ethics\u0026rdquo; how can you scale perspective transformation (in anyone, but particularly in engineers in open source communities) would engineering + critical pedagogy = critical engineering? Below is a list of books and articles I read this month. Daniel Sarewitz. (n.d.). Does Science Policy Matter? Issues In Science and Technology, (Summer 2007), 31–38. Dennis, M. A. (1994). “ Our First Line of Defense”: Two University Laboratories in the Postwar American State. Isis, 85(3), 427–455. Edmund P. Russel. (1996). “Speaking of Annihilation”: Mobilizing for War Against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945. The Journal of American History, 82(4), 1505–1529. El-Zein, A. H., \u0026amp; Hedemann, C. (2016). Beyond problem solving: Engineering and the public good in the 21st century. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137, 692–700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.129 Erickson, P. (2010). Mathematical models, rational choice, and the search for Cold War culture. Isis, 101(2), 386–392. Feenberg, A. (1992). Subversive rationalization: Technology, power, and democracy 1. Inquiry, 35(3–4), 301–322. Florman, S. C. (1996). Small Is Dubious. In The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (2nd edition). New York: St. Martin’s Griffin. Gieryn, Thomas F. (1983). Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists. American Sociological Review, 48(6), 781–795. Hackett, E. J. (2005). Essential Tensions: Identity, Control, and Risk in Research. Social Studies of Science, 35(5), 787–826. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312705056045 Harbin, A. (2014). Disorientation and the medicalization of struggle. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 7(1), 99–121. Hart, D. D., Buizer, J. L., Foley, J. A., Gilbert, L. E., Graumlich, L. J., Kapuscinski, A. R., … Silka, L. (2016). Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 4, 0–9. https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000090 Ian Hacking. (2002). Making Up People. In Historical Ontology (pp. 98–114). Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Jasanoff, S. (2003). Technologies of humility: Citizen participation in governing science. In Wozu Experten? (pp. 370–389). Springer. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-80692-5_17 Langdon Winner. (1986). Do Artifacts Have Politics. In The Whale and the Reactor: The Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (pp. 19–39). Chicago University Press. Lewontin, Richard, \u0026amp; Levins, Richard. (n.d.). Let the Numbers Speak + The Politics of Averages. In Biology Under The Influence (pp. 65–74). Maienschein, J. (1991). Epistemic Styles in German and American Embryology. Science in Context, 4(2), 407–427. Mitman, G. (2005). In search of health: Landscape and disease in American environmental history. Environmental History, 10(2), 184–210. Parker, J., \u0026amp; Crona, B. (2012). On being all things to all people: Boundary organizations and the contemporary research university. Social Studies of Science, 42(2), 262–289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312711435833 Pinch, T. J., \u0026amp; Bijker, W. E. (1984). The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of Science, 14(3), 399–441. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631284014003004 Reynolds, T. S. (1992). The Education of Engineers in America before the Morrill Act of 1862. History of Education Quarterly, 32(4), 459–482. https://doi.org/10.2307/368959 Robert K Merton. (n.d.). The Sociology of Science (selections). In The Sociology of Science. Sterner, B., \u0026amp; Franz, N. M. (2017). Taxonomy for Humans or Computers? Cognitive Pragmatics for Big Data. Biological Theory, 12(2), 99–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-017-0259-5 Swierstra, T., \u0026amp; Rip, A. (2007). Nano-ethics as NEST-ethics: Patterns of Moral Argumentation About New and Emerging Science and Technology. NanoEthics, 1(1), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-007-0005-8 Verbeek, P.-P. (2006). Materializing Morality: Design Ethics and Technological Mediation. Science, Technology, \u0026amp; Human Values, 31(3), 361–380. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243905285847 Whitbeck, C. (1996). Ethics as Design: Doing Justice to Moral Problems. The Hastings Center Report, 26(3), 9. https://doi.org/10.2307/3527925 Zimmerman, A. D. (1995). Toward a More Democratic Ethic of Technological Governance. Science, Technology, \u0026amp; Human Values, 20(1), 86–107. One of the things I love most about working hard is tracking how hard I'm working. Total number of pages (including only the content above that contained page number data) read this month: 376 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-sept-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spent September struggling to stay afloat.  The way work was structured, I was able to spend time thinking about fewer ideas, but exploring them more fully.  This month, those ideas were:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: September 2017"},{"content":"Before it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my OSSummit in tweets:\nSay hi if you are also at #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/hpr0xOLYgH\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 11, 2017 .@realdanlyons is 💥💣talking about the toxicity of startups and the gig economy at #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/UGz93CCPEY\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 12, 2017 .@sarahsharp also 💣💥at #OSSummit talking about respect being more valuable than mythological \u0026quot;rock star\u0026quot; developers pic.twitter.com/lBhB5gStSj\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 12, 2017 .@sarahsharp \u0026quot;Where does your Code of Conduct apply?\u0026quot; Asking hard qs about violence/harassment that happen \u0026quot;outside\u0026quot; of community. #OSSummit\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 12, 2017 Disappointed to see we\u0026#39;re still doing sexually suggestive tech swag. #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/172Bqjcd2C\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 13, 2017 Where on this chart does \u0026quot;finding speakers who are not white men\u0026quot; fall? #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/pdH7atz9GS\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 13, 2017 6th.\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 13, 2017 .@BindiBelanger on partnered leadership. \u0026quot;We need to grow the leaders we need\u0026quot; #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/HraY0LMAWl\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 13, 2017 #OSSummit Arpana Durgaprasad: Code for good. Here are 10+ apps you can build right now to change lives. 😍😍😍\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 14, 2017 \u0026quot;Think about the ways that meritocracy is harming your community\u0026quot; @larissashapiro, @sunnydeveloper on Mozilla governance changes #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/A8dLGdkItD\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 14, 2017 #OSSummit dysphoria for non-binary folks is real. Invite nb/gender non-conforming ppl by name. @larissashapiro @sunnydeveloper pic.twitter.com/YiZGL8S1XX\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 14, 2017 \u0026quot;@emmajanehw\u0026#39;s Unicorn Law: As a woman in tech, you will eventually give a talk about being a woman in tech.\u0026quot; @marinaz #OSSummit\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 14, 2017 Python increased female speakers from 1% to 40% in 5 years. \u0026lt;3 \u0026lt;3 \u0026lt;3 \u0026lt;3 @pyladies @djangogirls major change agents in this. #OSSummit\n\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 14, 2017 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/ossummit/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBefore it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my OSSummit in tweets:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSay hi if you are also at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/OSSummit?src=hash\"\u003e#OSSummit\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/hpr0xOLYgH\"\u003epic.twitter.com/hpr0xOLYgH\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; nikki stevens (@drnikki) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/drnikki/status/907383087092215809\"\u003eSeptember 11, 2017\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cscript async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realdanlyons\"\u003e@realdanlyons\u003c/a\u003e is 💥💣talking about the toxicity of startups and the gig economy at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/OSSummit?src=hash\"\u003e#OSSummit\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/UGz93CCPEY\"\u003epic.twitter.com/UGz93CCPEY\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source Summit Recap"},{"content":"I spent August getting used to being back in class, and thinking about:\nhow do engineers think about engineering ethics on a day-to-day basis (if at all)? just because we can build something, does that mean we should? do engineering ethics stop with the technological product (in the case of software) or do they extend to the interactions engineers have with each other? why did the engineering profession develop in the way that it did? and (as always) what role does capitalism play in any of the above? Below is a list of books and articles I read this month. Angwin, J., Savage, C., Larson, J., Moltke, H., Poitras, L., \u0026amp; Risen, J. (2015, August 15). AT\u0026amp;T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html ASCE Code of Ethics. (2006). Barry-Jester, A. M., Casselman, B., \u0026amp; Goldstein, D. (2015, August 4). Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet? Retrieved from https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/prison-reform-risk-assessment/ Beiser, V. (n.d.). The Deadly Global War for Sand. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/ Chełkowski, T., Gloor, P., \u0026amp; Jemielniak, D. (2016). Inequalities in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits in Apache Software Foundation Projects. PLOS ONE, 11(4), e0152976. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152976 Downey, G. L. (2007). Low Cost, Mass Use: American Engineers and the Metrics of Progress. History and Technology, 23(3), 289–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/07341510701300387 Epstein, S. (1996). Drugs Into Bodies. In Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (pp. 208–234). University of California Press. Franklin, S. (2007). Origins. In Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (pp. 1–45). Duke University Press. Gusterson, H. (1999). Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination. Cultural Anthropology, 14(1), 111–143. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1999.14.1.111 Hudson, M. (n.d.). Kosovars Who Rebuilt War-Torn Village Face New Threat As World Bank Considers Coal-Burning Power Plant. Retrieved from http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/worldbank-evicted-abandoned/kosovo-war-torn-village-coal-burning-power-plant Kelty, C. (2005). Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics. Cultural Anthropology, 20(2), 185–214. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.2005.20.2.185 Layton, E. T. (1971). Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession (1st edition, edition). Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press. Mehlman, A. (2015, August). The Genesis Engine. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/2015/07/crispr-dna-editing-2/ Miller, C. (2015). Knowledge and Democracy: The Epistemics of Self-Governance. In Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond. (pp. 198–219). London: Routledge. Naparat, D., Finnegan, P., \u0026amp; Cahalane, M. (2015). Healthy Community and Healthy Commons: ‘Opensourcing’ as a Sustainable Model of Software Production. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 19(0). https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v19i0.1221 Noble, D. F. (1979). America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pollan, M. (2009, July 29). Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html Rajan, K. S. (2003). Genomic Capital: Public Cultures and Market Logics of Corporate Biotechnology. Science as Culture, 12(1), 87–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950543032000062272 Schmalzer, S. (2017). Teaching the History of Radical Science with Materials on Science for the People (1969–1989). Radical History Review, 2017(127), 173–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3690943 Sclove, R. E. (1995). Democracy and Technology (1 edition). New York: The Guilford Press. UCS Founding Document. (n.d.). van de Poel, I., \u0026amp; Verbeek, P.-P. (2006). Editorial: Ethics and Engineering Design. Science, Technology, \u0026amp; Human Values, 31(3), 223–236. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243905285838 Watered-Down Gen Ed for Engineers? (n.d.). Retrieved September 5, 2017, from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/26/faculty-members-criticize-proposed-changes-gen-ed-accreditation-standards-engineers Zou, L., \u0026amp; Cheryan, S. (2015). When Whites’ Attempts to Be Multicultural Backfire in Intergroup Interactions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(11), 581–592. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12203 One of the things I love most about working hard is tracking how hard I'm working. Total number of pages (including only the content above that contained page number data) read this month: 898 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-aug-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spent August getting used to being back in class, and thinking about:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow do engineers think about engineering ethics on a day-to-day basis (if at all)?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ejust because we can build something, does that mean we should?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edo engineering ethics stop with the technological product (in the case of software) or do they extend to the interactions engineers have with each other?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy did the engineering profession develop in the way that it did?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand (as always) what role does capitalism play in any of the above?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\nBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month.\n\u003cdiv class=\"csl-bib-body\" style=\"line-height: 2; margin-left: 2em; text-indent:-2em;\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eAngwin, J., Savage, C., Larson, J., Moltke, H., Poitras, L., \u0026amp; Risen, J. (2015, August 15). AT\u0026amp;T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/i\u003e. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc\u0026amp;rft.type=newspaperArticle\u0026amp;rft.title=AT%26T%20Helped%20U.S.%20Spy%20on%20Internet%20on%20a%20Vast%20Scale\u0026amp;rft.source=The%20New%20York%20Times\u0026amp;rft.description=Newly%20disclosed%20N.S.A.%20documents%20show%20that%20the%20agency%20gained%20access%20to%20billions%20of%20emails%20through%20a%20%E2%80%9Chighly%20collaborative%E2%80%9D%20relationship%20with%20AT%26T.\u0026amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fsummer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F08%2F16%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fatt-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Julia\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Angwin\u0026amp;rft.au=Julia%20Angwin\u0026amp;rft.au=Charlie%20Savage\u0026amp;rft.au=Jeff%20Larson\u0026amp;rft.au=Henrik%20Moltke\u0026amp;rft.au=Laura%20Poitras\u0026amp;rft.au=James%20Risen\u0026amp;rft.date=2015-08-15\u0026amp;rft.issn=0362-4331\u0026amp;rft.language=en-US\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eASCE Code of Ethics. (2006).\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc\u0026amp;rft.type=document\u0026amp;rft.title=ASCE%20Code%20of%20Ethics\u0026amp;rft.date=2006\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eBarry-Jester, A. M., Casselman, B., \u0026amp; Goldstein, D. (2015, August 4). Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet? Retrieved from https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/prison-reform-risk-assessment/\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc\u0026amp;rft.type=blogPost\u0026amp;rft.title=Should%20Prison%20Sentences%20Be%20Based%20On%20Crimes%20That%20Haven%E2%80%99t%20Been%20Committed%20Yet%3F\u0026amp;rft.description=The%20new%20science%20of%20sentencing.\u0026amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fsummer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Ffivethirtyeight.com%2Ffeatures%2Fprison-reform-risk-assessment%2F\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Anna%20Maria\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Barry-Jester\u0026amp;rft.au=Anna%20Maria%20Barry-Jester\u0026amp;rft.au=Ben%20Casselman\u0026amp;rft.au=Dana%20Goldstein\u0026amp;rft.date=2015-08-04\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eBeiser, V. (n.d.). The Deadly Global War for Sand. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc\u0026amp;rft.type=webpage\u0026amp;rft.title=The%20Deadly%20Global%20War%20for%20Sand\u0026amp;rft.description=The%20global%20demand%20for%20plain%20old%20sand%20is%20so%20high%20that%20illegal%20mines%20are%20everywhere%2C%20and%20mafias%20around%20the%20world%20are%20killing%20for%20the%20stuff.\u0026amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fsummer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2015%2F03%2Fillegal-sand-mining%2F\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Vince\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Beiser\u0026amp;rft.au=Vince%20Beiser\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eChełkowski, T., Gloor, P., \u0026amp; Jemielniak, D. (2016). Inequalities in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits in Apache Software Foundation Projects. \u003ci\u003ePLOS ONE\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e11\u003c/i\u003e(4), e0152976. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152976\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0152976\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Inequalities%20in%20Open%20Source%20Software%20Development%3A%20Analysis%20of%20Contributor%E2%80%99s%20Commits%20in%20Apache%20Software%20Foundation%20Projects\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=PLOS%20ONE\u0026amp;rft.volume=11\u0026amp;rft.issue=4\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Tadeusz\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Che%C5%82kowski\u0026amp;rft.au=Tadeusz%20Che%C5%82kowski\u0026amp;rft.au=Peter%20Gloor\u0026amp;rft.au=Dariusz%20Jemielniak\u0026amp;rft.au=Christophe%20Antoniewski\u0026amp;rft.date=2016-04-20\u0026amp;rft.pages=e0152976\u0026amp;rft.issn=1932-6203\u0026amp;rft.language=en\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eDowney, G. L. (2007). Low Cost, Mass Use: American Engineers and the Metrics of Progress. \u003ci\u003eHistory and Technology\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e23\u003c/i\u003e(3), 289–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/07341510701300387\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F07341510701300387\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Low%20Cost%2C%20Mass%20Use%3A%20American%20Engineers%20and%20the%20Metrics%20of%20Progress\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=History%20and%20Technology\u0026amp;rft.volume=23\u0026amp;rft.issue=3\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Gary%20Lee\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Downey\u0026amp;rft.au=Gary%20Lee%20Downey\u0026amp;rft.date=2007-09\u0026amp;rft.pages=289-308\u0026amp;rft.spage=289\u0026amp;rft.epage=308\u0026amp;rft.issn=0734-1512%2C%201477-2620\u0026amp;rft.language=en\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eEpstein, S. (1996). Drugs Into Bodies. In \u003ci\u003eImpure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge\u003c/i\u003e (pp. 208–234). University of California Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-520-92125-2\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=bookitem\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Drugs%20Into%20Bodies\u0026amp;rft.publisher=University%20of%20California%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Steven\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Epstein\u0026amp;rft.au=Steven%20Epstein\u0026amp;rft.date=1996-12-09\u0026amp;rft.pages=208-234\u0026amp;rft.spage=208\u0026amp;rft.epage=234\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-520-92125-2\u0026amp;rft.language=en\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eFranklin, S. (2007). Origins. In \u003ci\u003eDolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy\u003c/i\u003e (pp. 1–45). Duke University Press.\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-0-8223-3920-5\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook\u0026amp;rft.genre=bookitem\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Origins\u0026amp;rft.publisher=Duke%20University%20Press\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Sarah\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Franklin\u0026amp;rft.au=Sarah%20Franklin\u0026amp;rft.date=2007-04-11\u0026amp;rft.pages=1-45\u0026amp;rft.spage=1\u0026amp;rft.epage=45\u0026amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8223-3920-5\u0026amp;rft.language=en\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eGusterson, H. (1999). Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination. \u003ci\u003eCultural Anthropology\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e14\u003c/i\u003e(1), 111–143. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1999.14.1.111\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1525%2Fcan.1999.14.1.111\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=Nuclear%20Weapons%20and%20the%20Other%20in%20the%20Western%20Imagination\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=Cultural%20Anthropology\u0026amp;rft.volume=14\u0026amp;rft.issue=1\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Hugh\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Gusterson\u0026amp;rft.au=Hugh%20Gusterson\u0026amp;rft.date=1999-02-01\u0026amp;rft.pages=111-143\u0026amp;rft.spage=111\u0026amp;rft.epage=143\u0026amp;rft.issn=1548-1360\u0026amp;rft.language=en\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"csl-entry\"\u003eHudson, M. (n.d.). Kosovars Who Rebuilt War-Torn Village Face New Threat As World Bank Considers Coal-Burning Power Plant. 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(2015). When Whites’ Attempts to Be Multicultural Backfire in Intergroup Interactions. \u003ci\u003eSocial and Personality Psychology Compass\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e9\u003c/i\u003e(11), 581–592. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12203\u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"Z3988\" title=\"url_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2\u0026amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fspc3.12203\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.atitle=When%20Whites'%20Attempts%20to%20Be%20Multicultural%20Backfire%20in%20Intergroup%20Interactions\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=Social%20and%20Personality%20Psychology%20Compass\u0026amp;rft.volume=9\u0026amp;rft.issue=11\u0026amp;rft.aufirst=Linda\u0026amp;rft.aulast=Zou\u0026amp;rft.au=Linda%20Zou\u0026amp;rft.au=Sapna%20Cheryan\u0026amp;rft.date=2015\u0026amp;rft.pages=581-592\u0026amp;rft.spage=581\u0026amp;rft.epage=592\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: August 2017"},{"content":"I spent July thinking about open source community health:\nhow do measures of open source project success interact with measures of community health? (they don\u0026rsquo;t, because no measures of community health exist) what would a \u0026ldquo;healthy\u0026rdquo; open source community look like? who has the right to determine what is healthy and for whom? how can we design a study to measure community health in a way that centers voices not typically heard in tech. if we make communities \u0026lsquo;healthy,\u0026rsquo; will they also become safer for marginalized folks? Below is a list of books and articles I read this month.\nBaytiyeh, H., \u0026amp; Pfaffman, J. (2010). Open source software: A community of altruists. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(6), 1345–1354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.008 Bickford, J., \u0026amp; Nisker, J. (2015). Tensions Between Anonymity and Thick Description When “Studying Up” in Genetics Research. Qualitative Health Research, 25(2), 276–282. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314552194 Crowston, K., \u0026amp; Howison, J. (2006). Assessing the Health of Open Source Communities. Computer, 39(5), 89–91. Furey, H. (2017). Aristotle and Autism: Reconsidering a Radical Shift to Virtue Ethics in Engineering. Science and Engineering Ethics, 23(2), 469–488. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9787-9 Hansson, S. O. (2017). The Ethics of Doing Ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics, 23(1), 105–120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9772-3 Harris, C. E. (2008). The good engineer: Giving virtue its due in engineering ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics, 14(2), 153–164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-008-9068-3 Hunting, G. (2014, April). Intersectionality-informed Qualitative Research: A Primer. Retrieved July 23, 2017, from https://www.sfu.ca/iirp/documents/resources/QualPrimer_FINAL_v3.pdf Jewell, T. (n.d.). Community Diversity Without Disunity. Retrieved from http://pl8cg5fc8w.search.serialssolution.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004\u0026amp;ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8\u0026amp;rfr_id=info:sid/ProQ%3Aabiglobal\u0026amp;rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal\u0026amp;rft.genre=article\u0026amp;rft.jtitle=The+Open+Source+Business+Resource\u0026amp;rft.atitle=COMMUNITY+DIVE Lev-On, A., \u0026amp; Lissitsa, S. (2015). Studying the coevolution of social distance, offline- and online contacts. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 448–456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.009 Michelfelder, D., \u0026amp; Jones, S. A. (2013). Sustaining Engineering Codes of Ethics for the Twenty-First Century. Science and Engineering Ethics, 19(1), 237–258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-011-9310-2 Park, E. (2014). Ethical Issues in Cyborg Technology: Diversity and Inclusion. NanoEthics, 8(3), 303–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-014-0206-x Sadowski, B. M., Sadowski-Rasters, G., \u0026amp; Duysters, G. (2008). Transition of governance in a mature open software source community: Evidence from the Debian case. Information Economics and Policy, 20(4), 323–332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2008.05.001 Schwalbe, M. (2009). INEQUALITY AND THE SEDUCTIONS OF FALSE COMMUNITY. Michigan Sociological Review, 23(Fall 2009), 1–30. One of the things I love most about working hard is tracking how hard I\u0026rsquo;m working. Total number of pages (in content listed above) read this month: 132 (Easy month!)\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-july-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spent July thinking about open source community health:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow do measures of open source project success interact with measures of community health? (they don\u0026rsquo;t, because no measures of community health exist)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhat would a \u0026ldquo;healthy\u0026rdquo; open source community look like?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewho has the right to determine what is healthy and for whom?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow can we design a study to measure community health in a way that centers voices not typically heard in tech.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eif we make communities \u0026lsquo;healthy,\u0026rsquo; will they also become safer for marginalized folks?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelow is a list of books and articles I read this month.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: July 2017"},{"content":"I have often thought, \u0026ldquo;I wish I knew what people in [insert name of PhD program] were reading.\u0026rdquo; because I wanted to do that same reading. Some courses had syllabi available, some had notes, but it was hard to get a sense of the themes that were being discussed. I told myself that if I were ever lucky enough to be able enter a PhD program, I\u0026rsquo;d share as much as I could about the material I was reading.\nHere we are.\nI spent June thinking primarily about engineering ethics:\nis software engineering part of engineering proper? (the articles say no) is software engineering a \u0026ldquo;profession\u0026rdquo; like civil engineering? (again, no) what would a code of ethics for software engineers look like (these exist) BUT what would the code look like if it were written with marginalized engineers as the focus? I\u0026rsquo;ve been calling this intersectional engineering ethics and I\u0026rsquo;m still thinking about it. in order to center the experiences and needs of marginalized/underrepresented engineers, do you need to start with different theories and questions? Below is a list of books and articles I read this month.\nColeman, E. G. (2012). Coding freedom : the ethics and aesthetics of hacking (p. 254). Princeton University Press. Davis, M. (1991). Thinking like an engineer: The place of a code of ethics in the practice of a profession. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 20(2), 150–167. https://doi.org/165.91.74.118 Di Tullio, D., \u0026amp; Staples, D. S. (2013). The Governance and Control of Open Source Software Projects.. Journal of Management Information Systems, 30(3), 49–80. https://doi.org/10.2753/MIS0742-1222300303 Ernst, W., \u0026amp; Horwath, I. Gender in science and technology : interdisciplinary approaches (p. 262). Retrieved from http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b6547311 Grewal, R., Lilien, G. L., \u0026amp; Mallapragada, G. (2006). Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems. Management Science, 52(7), 1043–1056. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0550 Hersh, M. (2014). Science, technology and values: Promoting ethics and social responsibility. AI and Society, 29(2), 167–183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0473-z Karwat, D. M. A., Eagle, W. E., Wooldridge, M. S., \u0026amp; Princen, T. E. (2014). Activist Engineering: Changing Engineering Practice By Deploying Praxis. Science and Engineering Ethics, 227–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9525-0 Lurie, Y., \u0026amp; Mark, S. (2015). Professional Ethics of Software Engineers: An Ethical Framework. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(2), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-015-9665-x Mockus, A., Fielding, R. T., \u0026amp; Herbsleb, J. D. (2002). Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 11(3), 309–346. https://doi.org/10.1145/567793.567795 Murillo, L. F. R. (2016). New Expert Eyes Over Fukushima: Open Source Responses to the Nuclear Crisis in Japan. Anthropological Quarterly, 89(2), 399–429. Nafus, D. (2012). 'Patches don't have gender': What is not open in open source software. New Media \\\u0026 Society, 14(4), 669–683. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444811422887 Schmidt, J. A. (2014). Changing the Paradigm for Engineering Ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics, 20(4), 985–1010. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-013-9491-y I also revisited the following classics from the recent #drupaldrama\nDunlap, G. (2014). Stay for the community. Retrieved March 25, 2017, from https://medium.com/@heyrocker/this-article-was-originally-a-keynote-presentation-at-the-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-in-5e7c7f93131b#.my45b0i99 Garfield, L. (2017). TMI About me. Retrieved March 26, 2017, from https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing Evans, J. (2017). Sex and Gor and open source. Retrieved March 26, 2017, from https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/sex-and-gor-and-open-source/ Koehler, C. (2017). Thoughts on recent Drupal governance decisions | Subfictional Studios. Retrieved April 30, 2017, from https://subfictional.com/thoughts-on-recent-drupal-governance-decisions/ Garfield, L. (2017). Response to conversations about me. Retrieved March 27, 2017, from https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2 One of the things I love most about working hard is tracking how hard I\u0026rsquo;m working. Total number of pages (articles and books only) read this month: 728\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/open-source-phd-june-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI have often thought, \u0026ldquo;I wish I knew what people in [insert name of PhD program] were reading.\u0026rdquo; because I wanted to do that same reading. Some courses had syllabi available, some had notes, but it was hard to get a sense of the themes that were being discussed.  I told myself that if I were ever lucky enough to be able enter a PhD program, I\u0026rsquo;d share as much as I could about the material I was reading.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Open Source PhD: June 2017"},{"content":"Nick and I met at Drupalcon New Orleans to discuss doing a survey to get some data about the diversity within the community of people who make the internet. Many such surveys have been done (here two: Slack and New Relic) but we wanted approach everything differently. Both of us have a long history of open source involvement and deeply believe in open-source philosophies. We wanted to do a survey completely in the open, and completely transparently. We have been guided by the philosophy of “Nothing about us, without us.”\nFollowing that logic, we wanted to draft the survey with the community, making all decisions about its structure and content in public, and then open source the data we obtain and any insights we can extract. We started a repo and began work on the project in June.\nThe problem(s) with other diversity surveys It’s frustrating to complete a survey and then wait, and have the numbers crunched by people who I don’t know, delivering results that may or may not be, really, accurate to the data. Their interpretations may or may not be ‘correct’ and may be biased in any number of ways, but there’s no way to confirm that because the raw data was never shared.\nThis project gets around that by saying - everything is public from the start. We’re writing the survey questions in public, we’re going to be making the raw data public, and when conclusions are drawn, those will be done in public as well.\nI jumped in and expected (naively, I realize in retrospect) that everyone I spoke to about this would be just as excited.\nChallenge #1: Involvement I gave a talk at DCNOLA about diversity in Drupal, and followed that up with a well-attended BOF to brainstorm strategies we can implement surrounding diversity in our communities (both the Big Drupal community, and our smaller individual communities). The main take away, the majority of feedback I received was “let’s just please continue the conversation. This is an important conversation”.\nSo, since DCNOLA, I’ve hosted a diversity and inclusion chat in IRC and Slack (meeting notes and schedule). These have been adequately attended, but not to the level of interest that existed at Drupalcon. It’s possible, and likely, that attending these is not a value-add for a lot of people, and it’s difficult to take time away from paying work to have these conversations (part of the problem with recruitment and retention in open source communities to begin with). Getting the voices of a diverse group of people talking about the survey is an additional constraint on the project.\nBut the question remains: If people think this is so important, why are we having such problems getting people involved? How can we make participation meaningful and worth people taking time away from their jobs, children, partners, hobbies, etc.\nPart of the idea of “nothing about us without us” is that if there were a survey addressing dimensions of identity in technology workers, technology workers would be active participants in creating that survey. I want to make sure that people’s voices are heard when the determination about what diversity indicators/measures/metrics are being used. Left to my/our own devices, surely something is going to be overlooked.\nChallenge #2: The MVP of Identity If you asked 100 people what parts of them make them unique, or different from others, you’d certainly get 100 different answers, but there would be overlaps in those sets. The big 8 is an attempt to codify the main categories/buckets of identities that people use to self-identify.\nHowever, they are incomplete. For some people, religion is a huge part of their identity; for others, being nuero a-typical might be very important; for others, it might be their family’s working class socio-economic status.\nSo, we’re using the Big 8 as a starting place, but it’s here again that we need help from a wide variety of voices to make sure that we’re capturing as inclusive as possible a set of characteristics.\nAnother factor to consider is whether or not seeing questions about dimensions of identity with which people do not resonate would be a barrier to completing a quiz. How can we capture the minimum viable identity dimensions (and this would include the smallest data set that would also be useful for data analysis) without excluding people?\nChallenge #3: Measuring for Inclusion However, while we can measure for diversity (perfectly or imperfectly), it’s much more difficult to quantitatively measure for equality and inclusivity. A workplace can be diverse by the numbers, but still feel exclusionary and hostile to those not in the minority.\nHow can we get data about whether or not people outside of the majority identity dimensions feel welcomed in their workplaces? How can we measure whether or not they feel as though they’re being equitably compensated for their work and effort?\nOne could conclude that greater diversity will naturally begin to create a culture of inclusivity and equality, but studies have shown that this is not necessarily the case.\nTakeaways Going through this, we’ve learned (no surprise) that working on diversity and inclusion issues involves working through these and other challenges. We’re not sure what outcomes we’ll drive or change we’ll effect through this survey, but we each believe this topic is important to us, the teams we work on, and the communities we are a part of. Our aim is to increase awareness via both the survey itself, and the open source results. Stay tuned, and keep the discussion going with us at @nstielau and @drnikki.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/2016-08-03-diversity-survey/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNick and I met at \u003ca href=\"https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016\"\u003eDrupalcon New Orleans\u003c/a\u003e to discuss doing a survey to get some data about the diversity within the community of people who make the internet.  Many such surveys have been done (here two: \u003ca href=\"https://slackhq.com/diversity-and-inclusion-an-update-on-our-data-7af803cedae4#.q80y0d2f0\"\u003eSlack\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.newrelic.com/2015/12/18/diversity-inclusion/\"\u003eNew Relic\u003c/a\u003e) but we wanted approach everything differently. Both of us have a long history of open source involvement and deeply believe in open-source philosophies.  We wanted to do a survey completely in the open, and completely transparently.  We have been guided by the philosophy of “Nothing about us, without us.”\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Nothing About Us Without Us"},{"content":"At Drupalcon New Orleans, I held a BOF entitled “Keeping it Exciting After All these Years.” It was a small group - seven people, including myself. We discussed some the ways that we find technology work to have transformed from genuine enthusiasm resembling “I can’t believe people pay me to do this!” to something akin to drudgery or menial tasks.\nI feel like the party line is - of course it feels that way after you’ve been doing something for so many years, but is it necessary? We encounter this mentality with relationships - “keeping the passion alive” after being together with someone after N years - and our relationship with technology work is a relationship just the same. But does it need to be subjected to the same level of low expectations and burnout that some of us burden our romantic relationships with? Perhaps an extended relationship with programming can be cherished and thought of the same way we treat our cherished friends. Or, perhaps, after many years, it is a relationship that should be abandoned in favor of greener pastures.\nMotivation can come from being mindful in the rituals of programming, and in the moments, rather than in the search for meaningful projects or work for ‘meaningful’ clients.\nDoing work on a project that is personally meaningful to you - for a political or environmental cause, for example - is amazing, but access to those opportunities is limited and, even if obtained, may not be financially feasible.\nUpdate from 2022: In retrospect, it is no surprise that after this, I applied to graduate school - a choice that would eventually lead to a PhD and the transformation of my technical career.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/finding-meaning/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAt Drupalcon New Orleans, I held a BOF entitled “Keeping it Exciting After All these Years.”  It was a small group - seven people, including myself. We discussed some the ways that we find technology work to have transformed from genuine enthusiasm resembling “I can’t believe people pay me to do this!” to something akin to drudgery or menial tasks.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Current quest: finding meaning in programming"},{"content":"Making bad hiring choices I\u0026rsquo;ve been actively interviewing and part of the hiring process for engineers, project managers and product owners for the last 8 years. In that time, I\u0026rsquo;ve probably hired about 30 people (fewer if you exclude long-term contractors) to work with me directly, and been a voice at the table for the hiring of about another 20 people. The majority of the people to whom I\u0026rsquo;ve given jobs have worked out wonderfully and I\u0026rsquo;d be happy to work with nearly all of them again.\nThe people who didn\u0026rsquo;t work out all had one thing in common - we hired them even though someone in the room didn\u0026rsquo;t want to hire them.\nWhy are people in the room? I think the first mistake we made was not identifying the roles that people were in the room to play. In a room of engineers interviewing another engineer, of course we\u0026rsquo;re all there to vet the candidate\u0026rsquo;s technical ability. But, we\u0026rsquo;re also all different, with different abilities and different qualities we look for in a candidate. In that sense, we\u0026rsquo;re all also there to decide, individually, \u0026ldquo;Is this person someone I want to work with?\u0026rdquo;\nThe ways that people come to a yes or no answer to that question are varied, and I can only speak for the ways in which I come to that answer. But what I\u0026rsquo;ve learned is that when someone says \u0026ldquo;No, something feels off,\u0026rdquo; we need to listen to that and honor that. If we\u0026rsquo;re going to overrule a person\u0026rsquo;s opinion on a person, they probably shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be in the room to begin with, or their role needs to be more clearly defined.\nWhy did people say no? In nearly every case when things didn\u0026rsquo;t work out (but I was part of the choice to hire them anyway), the person who didn\u0026rsquo;t want them there could only articulate similar to \u0026ldquo;something just feels off.\u0026rdquo;\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a slippery slope when trying to honor people\u0026rsquo;s perceptions and intuitions and also help them see through any unconscious bias they might be having against the interview candidate. This comes back to trusting that the interviewers in the room are the right people and that you as the hiring manager can trust them to give informed and thoughtful opinions. I\u0026rsquo;ve made the mistake of saying \u0026ldquo;Can you give me something more than \u0026lsquo;something feels off\u0026rsquo;?\u0026rdquo;, watched them stumble, and then dismissed their hunch and pulled the hiring trigger. This has never, to date, worked out in my favor.\ntl;dr Trust the people you\u0026rsquo;re interviewing with and then trust the opinions they offer on the candidates.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/trusting-your-hirers/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"making-bad-hiring-choices\"\u003eMaking bad hiring choices\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve been actively interviewing and part of the hiring process for engineers, project managers and product owners for the last 8 years.  In that time, I\u0026rsquo;ve probably hired about 30 people (fewer if you exclude long-term contractors) to work with me directly, and been a voice at the table for the hiring of about another 20 people. The majority of the people to whom I\u0026rsquo;ve given jobs have worked out wonderfully and I\u0026rsquo;d be happy to work with nearly all of them again.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Trusting the people in the interview room"},{"content":"Several times in my career, I\u0026rsquo;ve entered companies with the opportunity to \u0026ldquo;build my own team.\u0026rdquo; For whatever reason (and that reason will become important later), the company had been outsourcing all of their web development to an (often offshore) agency. In retrospect, I know now that we should have\nQ: Are we ready for a short-term decline in productivity?\nQ: Is everyone who interacts with the products/projects open to changing the way they work?\nQ: Are we genuinely interested in developing an engineering culture? (as opposed to being an engineering-first organization, or acquiring engineers in a desire to get acquired)\nQ: Do all of the stakeholders for the product/project want this?\nQ: Do we have a work environment that supports open conversation?\nQ: Have any of the stakeholders worked places with in-house developers before? What were those developers\u0026rsquo; roles in relation to the individuals?\nQ: Do we view engineering as a service profession? In other words, are engineers there just to execute other people\u0026rsquo;s plans?\nAsk yourself (and the people in your company) honestly - what do I expect this \u0026lsquo;in-house development\u0026rsquo; team to do? Check if people have any (mis)conceptions about what is possible and what staff developers want to do.\nI can\u0026rsquo;t speak for all developers, but I think I have a sense of what many of the good ones want, as far as engineering culture:\nA place where they can contribute to processes, workflows and architectures A place where they can work with people they respect and from whom they can learn A place where they feel like their opinions are heard and their experience is valued If there are not clear and nearly unanimous answers to these questions, hold off. It\u0026rsquo;s likely too soon to an in-house development model, and you\u0026rsquo;ll save money in the long run by waiting.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/are-we-ready/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSeveral times in my career, I\u0026rsquo;ve entered companies with the opportunity to \u0026ldquo;build my own team.\u0026rdquo;  For whatever reason (and that reason will become important later), the company had been outsourcing all of their web development to an (often offshore) agency.  In retrospect, I know now that we should have\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Is my company ready for an internal development team?"},{"content":"(Update as of September 2022: Folks it is. I leave these old posts up in the spirit of open source and as an act of transparency \u0026mdash; we are all growing, still, and I can look back at old posts like these and see how my thinking has changed.)\n\u0026ldquo;Thanks, guys.\u0026rdquo; In July, my company\u0026rsquo;s in-house technology department comprised Jason Savino, Mike Klass and me. During morning standups, there would be the three of us and a few male stakeholders - the VP of Product, a project manager, maybe the VP of Growth. But everyone on the call was male.\nAs I was addressing these groups, I heard myself saying \u0026ldquo;guys\u0026rdquo; - \u0026ldquo;Thanks, guys\u0026rdquo;; \u0026ldquo;Good morning, guys\u0026rdquo; - and I gave myself a pass because it was actually a group of guys. I specifically thought to myself \u0026ldquo;This is an appropriate thing to say because they are, in fact, all individuals who describe themlselves as male.\u0026rdquo; In retrospect, the fact that I heard myself say it and then rationalized its use should have been fair warning that it\u0026rsquo;s not behavior I want to model. In retrospect.\nOne day, Savino said to me, \u0026ldquo;Hey, you should stop using \u0026lsquo;guys\u0026rsquo;.\u0026rdquo;\n\"I thought about that,\" I said and immediately thought-but-did-not-say \"See, I'm smart and I'm the boss and I think of everything!\" Defensiveness is another great warning sign, by the way.\n\"Right, but if you can say it, why can't I?\"\nThere are really two lessons here: one, always hire people who will tell you when you\u0026rsquo;re saying something stupid; and two, there\u0026rsquo;s never a good reason to gender a group. Even if it\u0026rsquo;s a group of men. Even if you know for sure that all of those men identify as male and are comfortable being addressed with male pronouns and male collective words.\nThe Guys Jar Because we are a behavior change company that incentivizes change with money, I created the \u0026ldquo;Guys\u0026rdquo; jar.\nInspired by the swear jar (which, if we\u0026rsquo;re being honest, I could also benefit from), I\u0026rsquo;m putting a dollar into the jar for each time I used a gendered collective word. Every time I say \u0026ldquo;guys,\u0026rdquo; $1. \u0026ldquo;Dudes\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;bros?\u0026rdquo; $1. \u0026ldquo;Kind and gentle sirs,\u0026rdquo; $1 and a trip back to the present day.\nThere is a lot of excellent writing about why we should address groups of people without being exclusionary or gendered and I won\u0026rsquo;t repeat it here.\nThe one thing that I\u0026rsquo;m still struggling with is that after I exorcise \u0026lsquo;guys\u0026rsquo; from my vocabulary, something else has to take its place.\nTo my ear, \u0026ldquo;folks\u0026rdquo; feels anachronistic, \u0026ldquo;everyone\u0026rdquo; feels robotic and \u0026ldquo;friends\u0026rdquo; feels false and saccharine.\nWe are, in all seriousness, going back and forth about whether or not \u0026ldquo;homies\u0026rdquo; is gendered or bogged down with other issues. An informal research paper says it\u0026rsquo;s fine, but I\u0026rsquo;m steering clear of it just in case. Though it\u0026rsquo;s my favorite runner up so far.\nChannel to something positive I don\u0026rsquo;t know how many times I\u0026rsquo;m going to slip and say \u0026ldquo;guys\u0026rdquo; or similar. As I was looking at the folded dollar bills in my ever-more-crowded mason jar, I saw this tweet by my friend Furiegh:\nRe-upping my donation to @TransEquality while waiting on hold, navigating more bureaucracy around my gender. Channel to something positive.\n\u0026mdash; fureigh (@fureigh) August 24, 2015 So, when the jar is full I\u0026rsquo;ll be taking whatever is in it, doubling it, and channeling it to something positive. Ashe Dryden does amazing work promoting diversity and inclusivity in technology and I\u0026rsquo;ll be donating everything to her work when the jar fills up.\nThanks for reading, folks.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/words-matter/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Update as of September 2022:  Folks it is.  I leave these old posts up in the spirit of open source and as an act of transparency \u0026mdash; we are all growing, still, and I can look back at old posts like these and see how my thinking has changed.)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"$1 per word"},{"content":"No binders They may not be in Binders, but it's a room full of womentechies. #TechInMotion twitter.com/mmsuperflyjr/s…\n\u0026mdash; Mallory Johns (@mmsuperflyjr) March 21, 2013 Last night at AlleyNYC, I was part of the Women in Tech panel at the Tech in Motion meetup. On the eve of the SendGrid/Adria/PyCon debacle, we met to talk about being women in leadership positions, obstacles we\u0026rsquo;ve overcome, and advice for women who want to be leaders (and the men that are in their lives).\nA quick round up of highlights of the event.\nNot only did Beth Gilfeather sneak me a glass of wine right before the panel started, she gave some really great advice about picking the right partner, staying balanced and rising to the top.\nCEO of Motion Recruitment Partners shares how she ended up in her management seat at #TechInMotion w/ @jobspringnyc twitter.com/E_BAUM/status/…\n\u0026mdash; Emily Baumgartner (@E_BAUM) March 21, 2013 Cailin Nelson gave wonderful perspective about the difficulties of working with men vs her physics PhD. My favorite was her thought that being a woman leading men can be an advantage because she doesn\u0026rsquo;t set off any competitive urges in the men she manages. Definitely a testament to her leadership skills.\nCailin Neldon: Nothing will ever be as terrible as my PhD qualifying exam. Haa I love this panel so much. #fangirling#techinmotion\n\u0026mdash; rachelsklar (@rachelsklar) March 22, 2013 Lindsay Bressler shared some of her great experiences about making sure she always had a seat at the table in meetings. But my favorite was when she encouraged women to trust their intution - if you have a good idea or point to make in your head, don\u0026rsquo;t wait for someone else to say it for you.\nAnna Khan gave some great contrast to how men and women pitch VCs. The moral for women: pitch even if your idea isn\u0026rsquo;t ready.\nAnna Khan of Bessemer highlights the need for more women on the other side of the table. \u0026#10;#vc #techinmotion\n\u0026mdash; Cynthia Schames (@CynthiaSchames) March 21, 2013 Carol Mirakove gave thougthful and nuanced advice about managing inappropriate workplace humor, staying informed and reading as much of everything as you can.\nMerrill Ferguson was a force to be reckoned with. She gave spot-on advice about not caring what anyone thinks of you, not being afraid to say what you see going on around you, and about the importance of mentors.\nMerrill Ferguson wishes she had more female mentors/role models above her. Also no longer really cares what ppl think of her.#techinmotion\n\u0026mdash; rachelsklar (@rachelsklar) March 21, 2013 Even though my parting advice was to be cocky, I was honored and humbled to be on a panel of such smart and accomplished women.\nWomen: \"Talk a HUGE game.\" #techinmotion #leanin\n\u0026mdash; Carlee Jean (@MsCarleeJean) March 22, 2013 Watch your tone Nikki Stevens VP Eng @refinery29 laying it out. Been told \"watch tone; strong personality; step off\" as a woman in tech. #techinmotion\n\u0026mdash; Cynthia Schames (@CynthiaSchames) March 21, 2013 After the panel, a man came up to me and asked what he should do when he has a problem with a woman\u0026rsquo;s tone. I gave him the best advice I could think of, but more than the advice, I loved that he asked.\nIf I missed you or we didn\u0026rsquo;t connect, I\u0026rsquo;d love to hear from you.\nHuge thanks to all of the women on the panel: Anna Khan, Carol Mirakove, Beth Gilfeather, Merrill Ferguson, Cailin Nelson, Lindsay Bressler; moderator Mandy Walker; host Sloane Barbour and of course Rachel Sklar, being all over the internet even when she was with us.\nWhat an amazing turn out for #womenintech hosted by #techinmotion #nyc pic.twitter.com/Jy0lNtH9rr\n\u0026mdash; Workbridge NY (@WorkbridgeNY) March 21, 2013 ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/tech-in-motion-women-in-tech/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"no-binders\"\u003eNo binders\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey may not be in Binders, but it's a room full of womentechies. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23TechInMotion\"\u003e#TechInMotion\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/IoD3gEeZto\" title=\"http://twitter.com/mmsuperflyjr/status/314880189857423360/photo/1\"\u003etwitter.com/mmsuperflyjr/s…\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0026mdash; Mallory Johns (@mmsuperflyjr) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mmsuperflyjr/status/314880189857423360\"\u003eMarch 21, 2013\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cscript async src=\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLast night at AlleyNYC, I was part of the Women in Tech panel at the Tech in Motion meetup. On the eve of the SendGrid/Adria/PyCon debacle, we met to talk about being women in leadership positions, obstacles we\u0026rsquo;ve overcome, and advice for women who want to be leaders (and the  men that are in their lives).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Tech In Motion: Women in Tech"},{"content":"I recently became a Director of Engineering at a startup and one of my first official tasks was to revitalize the company\u0026rsquo;s very stale developer blog. I started thinking about what makes a good dev blog, and began writing up recommendations for what I thought the team should do. I got all the way through these and realized that I could have gone into nearly any startup and given this same advice. So, here is some advice on how to run your startup\u0026rsquo;s developer blog.\nMission Statement Most likely, your startup\u0026rsquo;s dev blog has primarily been used as a tool for recruitment, and while that\u0026rsquo;s certainly still an objective, you\u0026rsquo;ll fare better if it isn\u0026rsquo;t the main focus. At it\u0026rsquo;s core, a developer blog should be written for developers and by developers about everything that goes into making and supporting a your infrastructure. A developer blog should be a blog that\u0026rsquo;s useful to developers. That\u0026rsquo;s it. Pretty simple.\nAs a recruitment platform, you need to demonstrate that you are a team worth joining. In order to demonstrate that you are a team worth joining, you need to look at what your goals are - both as a company and as an engineering department. What kind of people are you trying to attract? What kind of message are you trying to send? The company I\u0026rsquo;m at doesn\u0026rsquo;t seem to have those written up yet, but I honestly don\u0026rsquo;t think it matters. The standard answers to those questions are \u0026ldquo;smart, hardworking people.\u0026rdquo;\nAre you a team worth joining? What kinds of teams to developers want to join? With no scientific evidence and only a brief google search, but with 16 years as a working developer, I\u0026rsquo;m going to guess that most developers will say they want two things: 1) to work on cool shit with 2) people they enjoy being around. Often developers will add that they also want to work at a company that values and supports their development team.\nYou need to demonstrate that you have the company culture that supports developers. That you are a self-reflective team that is able to process your failures and adjust accordingly. That you are willing to work to deliver a quality product without burning out developers in the process.\nAnd while we\u0026rsquo;re talking about culture\u0026hellip; It\u0026rsquo;s tempting to use your developer blog as a way to show people how \u0026ldquo;fun\u0026rdquo; it is to work at your startup. You have beer fridge and happy hours and cases of champagne scattered around the office after a company meeting. You need to separate development from drinking culture. Good developers may not drink, but even if they do, they may not have an interest in drinking with their coworkers. Shanley has an excellent write up of what your culture is really saying. Go read it. (This is also a good write up about drinking and exclusion in tech.)\nThe reality is that while you\u0026rsquo;re struggling to build something cool you spend a lot of time figuring out just how not to drown. Sometimes you survive by drinking beers while you\u0026rsquo;re doing a 3am push. It\u0026rsquo;s fine that it happens, but it shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be a common occurrence and most certainly should not be how you portray your team on your developer blog.\nBut How?! It\u0026rsquo;s actually quite simple.\nFind things you can blog about\nYour team can probably come up with a bunch of things they can blog about. Your company/brand may have some things they don\u0026rsquo;t want discussed. You may have ideas about topics you\u0026rsquo;d like to investigate. Go forth and find ideas. If this is where you\u0026rsquo;re stuck, well, I don\u0026rsquo;t have any other help for you just yet. Put blog stories into your work tracker Pivotal Tracker, JIRA, ScrumSomethingSomething - whatever you use, make writing blog posts a point-worthy task that\u0026rsquo;s accomplished in a sprint just like any other. Publish\nAnd rejoice when you get to share things you\u0026rsquo;re learning and get feedback on things that you\u0026rsquo;re still uncovering. What\u0026rsquo;s in it for me?! You will benefit because doing this you will:\nthink critically about your work raise your public profile increase your open source contributions And the most self-serving reason of all: it will make you a better developer. If you\u0026rsquo;re not a developer and don\u0026rsquo;t care about any of those things, probably stop reading because I can\u0026rsquo;t help you just yet.\nThe reality is that much of the work you do is probably fairly standard development, so focus on the things that do make you unique - the approaches you take to solving problems, the things you do that don\u0026rsquo;t work, and the ways that you interact with your product and your process.\nI believe that sharing your path as a technology team supporting a growing startup will contribute value to the broader \u0026ldquo;development blog\u0026rdquo; landscape and you\u0026rsquo;ll as demonstrate that you are a team that good developers want to join.\nA Sustainable \u0026lsquo;Healthy Blog\u0026rsquo; plan Get each developer to write a blog about something they\u0026rsquo;re working on individually.\nThis can be difficult because not every developer goes home and hacks on things. The assumption that they do can be exclusionary (often people who don\u0026rsquo;t immediately fit into the \u0026ldquo;brogrammer\u0026rdquo; culture are excluded from this - people have family obligations that prevent them from leaving a job coding all day to go home and code all night). If they don\u0026rsquo;t work on side projects, encourage them to blog about something they\u0026rsquo;re learning at work.\nIf they\u0026rsquo;re not learning anything at work, you have bigger problems than stale content on your developer blog.\nEach time there\u0026rsquo;s a sprint retrospective or project post-mortem, ask: \u0026ldquo;can you blog about this?\u0026rdquo;\nIf you\u0026rsquo;re not sure, here are some more questions you can ask:\nDid you try something new that worked? Did you try something new that didn\u0026rsquo;t work? Did you stop doing something good or start doing something bad? Did a team member take an action that impacted the rest of the team? Did a major technology fail us? Why? Did something completely unexpected happen that threw us off course? Did you systematically deny a truth that would have made this project better? Did you under- or over-estimate? If you don\u0026rsquo;t answer yes to at least a few of those questions, you may have a development team full of automatons. Out of retrospectives and post-mortems come valuable insights about breakdown in process, changes that will improve workflow, and problems caused by technical short-sightedness. Give your developers a task to write up an overview or deep-dive of this for the blog. If it ends up filled with too much proprietary or otherwise private information, you\u0026rsquo;ve still won as a team because everyone can read it, and you\u0026rsquo;ve given a developer practice in distilling, organizing and presenting information. At worst, you\u0026rsquo;ve helped your developer grow. At best, you\u0026rsquo;ve done that and benefited your blog.\nKeep a bucket list of possible blog topics.\nNew technology, hackathons, nuanced challenges, that list of steps from above - the more you start thinking \u0026ldquo;Can I write a blog about this?\u0026rdquo; the more you\u0026rsquo;ll find things to blog about, I promise.\nYes, but\u0026hellip; Yes, there is always \u0026ldquo;money\u0026rdquo; work to do. There are always projects that need attention. There is always technical debt that you could be paying off. Is having an active dev blog a worthwhile use of the business\u0026rsquo;s time? It is. Go back and re-read the \u0026ldquo;what\u0026rsquo;s in it for me section.\u0026rdquo; It\u0026rsquo;s going to be nearly impossible for developers not to benefit from involvement in this process. I read somewhere that developers can have three years of experience, or can have the same year three times. This is one way you can guarantee that your developers are growing.\nAnd if you\u0026rsquo;re feeling altruistic, think about how you\u0026rsquo;re joining in a community of practice that\u0026rsquo;s larger than your functional or project team and that is going to enrich everyone\u0026rsquo;s experience.\ntl;dr: If you want to recruit good engineers, don\u0026rsquo;t (just) post pictures of mimosas on your developer blog.\nDid I miss anything? Tell me! @drnikki\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/recruiting-engineers-with-your-developer-blog/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI recently became a Director of Engineering at a startup and one of my first official tasks was to revitalize the company\u0026rsquo;s very stale developer blog.  I started thinking about what makes a good dev blog, and began writing up recommendations for what I thought the team should do.  I got all the way through these and realized that I could have gone into nearly any startup and given this same advice.  So, here is some advice on how to run your startup\u0026rsquo;s developer blog.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Recruiting engineers with your startup's developer blog."},{"content":"Next Friday, I\u0026rsquo;ll be presenting at SandCamp on best practices for teams. Naturally, I’ve been thinking about what makes a good team in general, and a good software development team specifically. For most of my career, I’ve been part of development teams at development shops or technical companies. Those places already had forward-thinking technical people making infrastructure decisions and crafting the technical culture (for better or worse). By the time I came along, most of the kinks had been worked out.\nBut I don\u0026rsquo;t work at a technical company right now - I work at an advertising agency.\nThe more time I spend here, the more I realize: advertising agencies are the exact opposite of technical companies. They’re filled with forward-thinking non-technical people. Most agencies used to be print/media focused. But, times change and agencies change along with them. Now most advertising agencies have in-house development teams. A lot of these agencies brand themselves as bleeding-edge and interactive-focused. But those same people who have brilliant creative visions for agencies are rarely able to nurture a technical department. Developers at ad agencies often become after-thoughts. After the brief is done, a producer will get a developer involved to \u0026ldquo;execute the vision.\u0026rdquo; By that time, it\u0026rsquo;s often too late to correct flaws in the design, or point out potential architectural pitfalls.\nAnd sometimes, developers and designers intuitively know that the way they\u0026rsquo;re working isn\u0026rsquo;t right, but can\u0026rsquo;t identify exactly what the problem is or how to fix it. If you find yourself in a similar situation, take the quiz!\nAnswer True or False to each of the following statements:\nMy entire department uses the same version control system, wiki, and ticketing system. I\u0026rsquo;m a developer starting a new project. I know where to go to create my repository, tickets and anything else I need. I\u0026rsquo;m a developer looking for comps. I know where the design team keeps their comps for my projects. I also know each time a comp is updated or changed without having to go look. Each time a project is scoped, I, or another developer, am consulted to validate the feasibility of the overall plan. I have regular meetings with my larger, non-tech project leads about the status of the project\u0026rsquo;s different parts. I have regular meetings within my technical department to do code reviews / educational seminars / showing off neat stuff. I\u0026rsquo;m excited to learn from other members on my team. I think I work with amazing programmers. I\u0026rsquo;m a developer looking to improve my skills. I know my managers are going to be excited to help me do so. I have a suggestion about a breakdown in our process. I know my managers are going to be receptive to my ideas. I can approach the design team about a problem and be sure we’ll find a solution that meets both of our needs. If you answered true to most of the statements above, congratulations! There is nothing more to do - rejoice in your awesome team and go build cool stuff!\nIf you answered false to most of the statements above, it\u0026rsquo;s time for an intervention. Personally, I\u0026rsquo;m working to create an infrastructure and cultural shift that ensures that everyone on my team will be able to answer true to every statement. I\u0026rsquo;ll be writing more about it, but if you\u0026rsquo;re doing the same, let\u0026rsquo;s talk.\nDid I miss anything? Tell me! @drnikki\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/how-dysfunctional-is-my-development-team/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNext Friday, I\u0026rsquo;ll be presenting at \u003ca href=\"http://sandcamp.org\"\u003eSandCamp\u003c/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"https://sandcamp.org/best-practices-teams\"\u003ebest practices for teams\u003c/a\u003e. Naturally, I’ve been thinking about what makes a good team in general, and a good software development team specifically.  For most of my career, I’ve been part of development teams at development shops or technical companies.  Those places already had forward-thinking technical people making infrastructure decisions and crafting the technical culture (for better or worse).  By the time I came along, most of the kinks had been worked out.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"How dysfunctional is my development team?"},{"content":"Recently, I worked on a project where the client controlled their production environment. They\u0026rsquo;re using EdgeCast and we didn\u0026rsquo;t have access to force a cache clear when deploying new releases to production. So we\u0026rsquo;d push, ask them to clear cache, and wait as many as 8 - 10 hours to make sure everything was working fine. This sucks, but what I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect was that even after they cleared the cache, old files were still being served. So we\u0026rsquo;d ask for another cache clear, and wait. This was as painful as it sounds.\nEventually, they asked us to simply put no-cache headers on all of our files. This kind of defeats the purpose of even having a CDN, but okay. We tried that next. However, even with cache-control headers in place, the CDN would unpredictably serve older versions of .js and .css files. There was a lot of back and forth and finger pointing about who\u0026rsquo;s fault it really was that prior-release .js was still being delivered. They finally suggested that we rename our asset files with each release. This also sucks, but was at least a solution that we could control. With this script as part of our build, we met them halfway and sort of renamed asset files with each release.\nHere\u0026rsquo;s the repo for the super simple script should you ever find yourself in such a position.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/i-hate-you-cache/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eRecently, I worked on a project where the client controlled their production environment.  They\u0026rsquo;re using EdgeCast and we didn\u0026rsquo;t have access to force a cache clear when deploying new releases to production. So we\u0026rsquo;d push, ask them to clear cache, and wait as many as 8 - 10 hours to make sure everything was working fine.  This sucks, but what I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect was that even after they cleared the cache, old files were still being served. So we\u0026rsquo;d ask for another cache clear, and wait. This was as painful as it sounds.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Working with caches you can't control"},{"content":"One of my favorite things about being a programmer is that I can figure out ways to solve little problems. Little non-problems, even. Over the last week, there have been Time Warner internet outages in my neighborhood.\nSo I built a busted little script will send me a TEXT MESSAGE when my internet has come back on (I love you, Twilio). I\u0026rsquo;ve just saved you about 4 minutes writing your own.\nEnjoy\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/is-my-internet-back-yet/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne of my favorite things about being a programmer is that I can figure out ways to solve little problems.  Little non-problems, even.  Over the last week, there have been Time Warner internet outages in my neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Is my internet back yet?"},{"content":"I spent today debugging a multilingual django app that I didn\u0026rsquo;t write. The problem is that the site\u0026rsquo;s language was being changed when you used the language switcher, but not if you typed in the url. So http://example.com/fr would only occasionally land you on the French version of the site. When you\u0026rsquo;re using custom language codes for any reason (in our case, we were matching the client\u0026rsquo;s lang codes) you\u0026rsquo;re going to have to set the app\u0026rsquo;s language.\nThe relevant code:\ndef manual_language_function(request, lang): if hasattr(request, \u0026#39;session\u0026#39;): request.session[\u0026#39;django_language\u0026#39;] = lang else: # do something else Because setting the session isn\u0026rsquo;t enough, you\u0026rsquo;ve got to add:\ntranslation.activate(lang) And the whole thing for completeness\u0026rsquo;s sake\ndef manual_language_function(request, lang): if hasattr(request, \u0026#39;session\u0026#39;): request.session[\u0026#39;django_language\u0026#39;] = lang translation.activate(lang) else: # do something else I lost a few hours figuring this out today, so here you go.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/setting-language-manually-in-django-1-dot-4/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spent today debugging a multilingual django app that I didn\u0026rsquo;t write.  The problem is that the site\u0026rsquo;s language was being changed when you used the language switcher, but not if you typed in the url.  So \u003ca href=\"http://example.com/fr\"\u003ehttp://example.com/fr\u003c/a\u003e would only \u003cem\u003eoccasionally\u003c/em\u003e land you on the French version of the site. When you\u0026rsquo;re using custom language codes for any reason (in our case, we were matching the client\u0026rsquo;s lang codes) you\u0026rsquo;re going to have to set the app\u0026rsquo;s language.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Setting Language manually in Django 1.4"},{"content":"We (LBi US, where I’m a developer) just launched TweetSinger.com, a Sony Mobile campaign site for their new Xperia series phones. This was my first large non-Drupal project in a while and it was fun to get to do something different.\nWhat was initially presented to me as a “quick two-page site” took a month of long hours to finish.\nThe technology:\nIt\u0026rsquo;s built in Symfony, backed by MongoDB, and using HTML5 canvas for visualizations.\nWe’re running a ton of Ubuntu web servers behind a load balancer and one MongoDB server all on Amazon EC2. I got to do all of my own devops on this project and it was nice to have complete control of the stack. We deploy with Capistrano (and its multi-stage extension) and files are stored on S3. Integrating with S3 was totally painless using a pre-existing Symfony library. It was an 11th-hour switch due to storage concerns with EBS and it was absolutely the best choice we could have made.\nI was initially concerned about storing huge json files in the db (each record is about 1MB), but it hasn’t been a problem at all. This is a fairly simple application for a database - there won’t ever be race conditions. The record is written only once upon song creation and will only be read thereafter. (A few edge cases notwithstanding). Getting the mongo server \u0026amp; RAID’ed EBS volumes was a lot easier than I expected.\nThe conversion is being done by a REST server that was written in Java, lives in Tomcat, and is built with ant via the the same Capistrano script I use to deploy the site.\nLessons learned:\nAn Amazon EC2 instance instance has to be off to make an image of it. This is one of those things that sounds so obvious, until you forget to shut an instance down before making an AMI and then can’t figure out why you can’t SSH into it.\nThe site itself is fairly small - only two discrete pages and a minimal admin area. It was initially presented to me as “a quick little build.” It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that perhaps some of the best practices that are part of developing large websites wouldn’t be needed on a smaller project. This, of course, is wrong. Best practices exist usually because they’re “best.” Not best “only if your dev team has 15 people on it.” Or best “just when you’ve got plenty of time.”\nHaving a structured build system, using pull requests to get code into master, documenting everything in a place any team member can access - these practices saved us hours even on this “little” website. I only briefly considered sidestepping some of these, but those practices are there to protect me (and the code) from myself as well.\nThe super-smart Yury Tillis was the front-end engineer on the project and is supposed to do a write-up of some of the magic he worked for the visualization.\nCongratulations to the entire LBi US team who worked so hard to get it launched.\nCheck it out at www.tweetsinger.com\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/tweetsinger-dot-com/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe (LBi US, where I’m a developer) just launched TweetSinger.com, a Sony\nMobile campaign site for their new Xperia series phones. This was my\nfirst large non-Drupal project in a while and it was fun to get to do\nsomething different.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"TweetSinger.com"},{"content":"Update: Just so it doesn\u0026rsquo;t get lost, there is also this post on g.d.o:\nDuring introductions at last night\u0026rsquo;s New York City Drupal User Group (NYCDUG) meetup, each person said a variation of \u0026ldquo;Hi my name is _____. My drupal.org name is ______. I\u0026rsquo;m a __________ at _________.\u0026rdquo; Some included how long they\u0026rsquo;d been working with drupal, usually because it had only been a few months. It\u0026rsquo;s a nice thing to share because it reminds the rest of us to make sure we\u0026rsquo;re not leaving anyone out when we casually mention advanced concepts. I think the community is pretty good at embracing the tentative and uncertain beginners and making them feel included.\nWhen it was my turn, I followed the pattern with one small deviation: \u0026ldquo;Hi, I\u0026rsquo;m Nikki Stevens. My drupal.org name is drnikki. I\u0026rsquo;m a senior developer at LBi, an ad agency in Flatiron. And I\u0026rsquo;m the only girl in the room.\u0026rdquo;\n\"I'm @drnikki, senior developer, and the only girl in the room…\"\n— Sam Kottler (@samkottler) June 6, 2012\n\"I'm @drnikki, senior developer, and the only girl in the room…\" #Drupal #NYC\n— Forest Mars (@forestmars) June 6, 2012\nThere was silence as people scanned the room to see if it was true. Then the men began to clap. My first reaction (because I\u0026rsquo;m me) was that they were applauding as if to say \u0026ldquo;Oh, congratulations! Look who\u0026rsquo;s got a girl!\u0026rdquo; (Note from 2022: Jokes on all of us - I was only pretending to be a woman.) Luckily, that\u0026rsquo;s not the case, though it still makes me laugh to think about it. Just the opposite - a few people came up to me wishing there were more women and asking how they could help.\nI believe most of the men in that room would like to see more women at NYCDUG meetups. If I\u0026rsquo;m wrong about that, please don\u0026rsquo;t correct me.\n@forestmars @drnikkiDrupal NYC is now down to only one woman in the room? Wow, we'd gotten it up to 4 or 5. #stillsofuckedup\n— Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) June 6, 2012\nWhile this is obviously part of larger societal issues regarding the underrepresentation of women in tech, treatment of girls in STEM classes, and the myriad of workplace injustices, I just want to talk about adults in the New York City Drupal User Group.\nWhen there are 2144 members of the New York Drupal community, why was I the only woman in the room?* If we assume that the community mirrors the national average**, 25% of technology jobs are held by women. That would mean that there are 536 women in the group.\nThere were 45 people there last night\n44/1608 or 2.73% of men attended the meetup\n1/536 or 0.18% of women attended the meetup\nNow, this issue isn\u0026rsquo;t just about women*** although that was the catalyst. The issue is about what seems to be a trend of homogeneity at NYCDUG meetings. This is bad. Diversity is good.\nImprove the integrity of source data\nWhile I stand by my fuzzy math above, it\u0026rsquo;s still pretty fuzzy. We need solid data so that we\u0026rsquo;re not just guessing about attendance and membership ratios. This includes:\nGenerating a report of member demographics. Let\u0026rsquo;s start with the demographics available and add if necessary. Developing a method to track who attends vs who signs up. The developer in me would love to over-engineer this with some sort of d.o %2B latitude / Foursquare, but we could just have a Google doc that people add their usernames to as they introduce themselves. This could also help us to target people who repeatedly sign up and don\u0026rsquo;t attend, so we can gain insight as to the reason(s) why. Ask people why they don\u0026rsquo;t come\nExisting members are self-selected, so we know they\u0026rsquo;re already interested in Drupal. How do we get them to participate? Let\u0026rsquo;s ask. Again, we can start by distributing a survey to the community asking them to self-identify and rank their participation. Topics might include:\nWhy aren\u0026rsquo;t they attending? Would a non-male DUG make them feel more included? Do they feel under-represented in DUG leadership? Is it simply a timing issue? (Which I don\u0026rsquo;t buy) Do women just not like meeting and talking about cool stuff? (Not this either) Brainstorm ways to get the under-represented people to attend After the data is collected, we should meet and discuss ways to increase participation. I\u0026rsquo;m happy to pick a time and place to gather and encourage people to come up with actionable ideas to make the group more diverse.\nI fully support all efforts aimed at increasing the NYCDUG membership both in numbers and diversity. But for now, let\u0026rsquo;s focus on cultivating and encouraging the community we already have. As far as I know, this is the only local initiative to promote diverse participation. If you want to get involved, hit me up on twitter (@drnikki), IRC (drnikki) or email me nikki@drnikki.org\n* As of June 7, there are 2074 members of the NYC drupal group. Additionally, there are 263 members on Meetup.com. I\u0026rsquo;d estimate that there is a significant overlap between the two groups, but probably not 100%. Let\u0026rsquo;s be conservative and say that there\u0026rsquo;s a 70% overlap - that\u0026rsquo;s an additional 77 users from Meetup.com. So combining the two groups, there\u0026rsquo;s 2144 people who could potentially attend an event.\n** I use the National Center for Women and Information Technology\u0026rsquo;s numbers. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if they\u0026rsquo;re including project managers, and any number of other titles that would be included in the Drupal ecosphere.\n*** This is absolutely not related to any conversations about gender identity/identification and the way it\u0026rsquo;s represented on drupal.org. Not at all. In. No. Way. I realize that there are more options than just male and female. The ultimate goal is to increase the attendance of everyone who is underrepresented, including all gender variants.\n**** mad credit to jhodgon and ashedryden for brainstorming this with me in the drupalchix IRC room.\nNote - In a previously hosted version of this blog, there were comments. I\u0026rsquo;ve captured them below.\nDRUPALCHIX ROCK decibelplaces replied on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 12:35 PERMALINK\nI was in a focus group once where I was the ONLY Drupaler, and the ONLY FOSS dev; and come to think of it there was ONLY one \"girl\" Anyway, I was surprised at this, I think that the Drupal community is more heterogeneous than most IT groups. I tweeted several drupalchix about this post, and you followed up with http://groups.drupal.org/node/237188 I have also been disappointed that nobody from my \"team\" (male or female) on my last 5 consulting projects over the past year has made it to any of the Drupal meetups (except for Oxygen Marvin who came to a Happy Hour). I have been guilty of not coming myself, often busy with work, or other things, but the Drupal meetups are on my radar. Maybe you can blame my absence for this drop in female attendance :P Or maybe Forrest should let his hair grow longer :D I will make an effort to come again, and bring more people; the more the merrier ‡¡‡ OK, I\u0026rsquo;LL RESPOND roseba replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 17:11 PERMALINK\nThere are two tracks to the NYC Drupal meetup. -I'm absolutely new to Drupal and I want to know more -I'm a rock star Developer and I understand command line, hardware configs, and I'm ready to roll with something new (or share Drupal as I know it) There isn't much going on in between. You are just expected to go from newbie to rock-star in a few months. If you don't... well what's wrong with you? It's fun to hang at the Bof and I've heard some very stimulating scenarios there. Much of what goes on there, I can't take away and directly apply to what I do on a daily basis. That isn't always the best use of limited time. I am not a site builder. I maintain, tweak and enhance an already built site which is large and complex. It's hard to relate to people creating new Drupal sites EVERY DAY. I simply don't get that kind of exposure to it that they do, so the learning curve gets steeper just from lack of time spent doing it. I also don't want to spend every waking hour of my finite personal time doing this on my own. I've done some learning on my own, but getting past some of the road blocks where I have spent hours, even a full day trying to do some simple thing and someone says, \"well look at the documentation\". Or \"google is your friend\". Does one think I haven't done that? And fwiw, when I hear, go to the documentation... and I read the documentation, my first thought is, IS THIS IN ENGLISH? Shouldn't it be understandable to anyone with a minimum amount of tech knowledge? So it comes to time. I work full time. My job is quite demanding. I work in Drupal all day, but it isn't building sites, but maintaining, break fixing and enhancing what we already have. The job is quite complex, and diversified (not just Drupal but other facets of the web too.) In fact, if I had to tell someone what I do all day... I would say, I have no idea. But I'm very busy doing it every day and have very little down town to \"practice\" Drupal. When I get out of work, I'm a single mother with a young kid, a rich personal life. I learned from experience in another field that all work and no play makes Jill a dull and unhappy girl. So with only one night free a week, going to a Drupal meetup, given what the other women have described (all true) is not always the top of my list. I won't say never. I do enjoy the meetups. But there are a lot of other things pulling on my limited free time. My first few Drupal meetups that I attended were very difficult. I felt intimidated. I feel that way every time I go into one, not just because of gender, but because of skill set. Every single female that has contributed to this thread thus far had said something that I would agree with. WANTED TO ADD SOMETHING roseba replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 19:20\nI know that there is some fighting about the two conferences happening this summer. That is a fight that I don't wish to involve myself in. However, I would like to voice something about the whole zest for Unconferences. I attended my first unconference at Poly just a little a year ago. I was very new to the community and extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend. I don't think I had attended any of the meetups yet. Of course there were many proposals of what subjects could present themselves at the Unconference. Many of what I thought could be there, didn't actually come to fruition because the plan was to decide based on those people actually in attendance. As a newbie, I wasn't even sure WHAT to ask for in terms of what I needed, and of course there needed to be someone in the community in attendance available to do it as well. (Just how does someone prepare for something if they don't know they are going to be a presenter, and as a presenter I certainly wouldn't want to waste my time preparing something \"just in case\" either. I don't think this is a formula for a good presentation and it robs the audience in attendance of an opportunity to learn something that they could have learned had the presenter had some time to pull something concrete together.) Anyway, the agenda was chosen for the day and from my point of view, there were some time slots where there really was NOTHING of applicable value for me. Interesting to some degree. Over my head in many cases. There were only a few presentations that I could readily relate to through the entire day, and two of them were during the same time slot which means I could only attend one. Some of the other time slots I was tossing a coin in my head as to which would be the least technical so I could get some value from it. So after allocating 6-7 hours away from my family time to do this (and missing my daughter's ballet recital), I stuck it out with a good faith effort to learn whatever I can in spite of the impossible situation. In the future, I don't want to ever attend another UnConference. My free time on weekends in particular is far to valuable to me to attend something that free wheeling, and if it is, it's for personal fulfillment or simply fun. WE DO SHOW UP! lisa rex replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:18\nWhile I'm not a 'regular' at any of the NYC events, I've attended the meetup often enough and have done lightning talks at many of them. I prefer the Drupal happy hour event even more. Sometimes there's very few women, sometimes there a bunch (maybe 10%!). The reason I wasn't there at the last meetup is I was out of town. I have proof we show up. :) This was taken on May 3rd. It wasn't even every woman at the meetup either: http://instagr.am/p/KJQSOKnVEE/ For me personally, most of the talks at the meetup are very dev-centric and I'm not a dev, so I do what I would do at any event: I go hang with RobbietheGeek and the newbies. I take the time to ask them about their Drupal experience so far, sometimes I do usability studies, etc. Is it good use of my time? Sometimes. I am curious why there aren't more women there too. Truthfully, I'm guessing a lot of just a lot going on in our lives and the Drupal meetup isn't high priority. WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO NYC, I nikkiana replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 13:15\nWhen I first moved to NYC, I was a lot more regular about attending both the regular meetup and the happy hour. My main motivation was for social reasons. When I first moved here, everyone I knew in the city was somehow involved with Drupal. It was a good space for me to make friends, plus it was easy to be motivated to go when I was surrounded by coworkers who were also going. I never much cared for the regular meetup, to be honest. I have the attention span of a gnat on crack, so sitting and listening to a lecture irregardless of whether or not the talk was going to be of interest to me (and generally the answer to that was no) is not my idea of a fun and relaxing evening. I'm also not a very patient teacher so sitting and helping the newbies isn't exactly my cup of tea either. I was pretty much going because I felt some sense of community obligation to be there... in part driven by the fact that I'm female and the ladies ought to represent... and the fact that there was the opportunity to go out for beers with friends afterwards. I stopped going when I started re-evaluating how I spent my time and cut out things that I didn't enjoy doing. Pretty much the only thing that can lure me out to a regular meetup is someone from out of town messaging me and asking me to come with them, and even then I'm probably going to tell them that I'll meet up for beers afterwards. Life's too short to be bored. I've always enjoyed the Happy Hour meetups more because I'm a social person. I attend it far less than I used to, though. I only come every couple of months. There are a couple reasons for this... One, financial. I made some choices to pursue artistic endeavors over the past year which has meant working less and money has been much tighter. I've largely stopped going out to eat and drinking at bars. Two, I'm making an effort not to drink to excess and Happy Hour was one of the events in my life where I was more likely to backslide into doing that. If I were to sum all of it up... I'd say this... I don't go out to the Drupal events much anymore because Drupal is less of a priority in my life than it once was. HEY THERE! Sean Robertson replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 13:55\nLong time no see, stranger. ;-) I haven't been to the meetups yet myself because I've generally been busy with other stuff, but I am planning to attend the happy hour on the 27th. MY NAME IS LIZA LizaK replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 15:06 PERMALINK\nMy name is Liza, I've been a member of the Drupal community for more than six years, I've done a lot of work on growing the business of Drupal, spoken at many DrupalCons, and for many years, I used to run Lullabot. (http://drupal.org/user/59115) I do not attend the NYC Drupal events. The first one I went to, with Webchick, we took the train up from Providence where we were giving a workshop, walked into the event, and the guy presenting was talking about porn. We walked out. Trip wasted. Years later, once I moved here to NYC, I went to a Drupal happy hour with some guys who worked for me and were regulars. I was making idle chit chat, and I asked the guy next to me what he did. He literally looked me up and down, said, \"Drupal, honey.\" and turned away. A few minutes later, when he realized who I was, he came running back over and wanted to tell me about his ideas \"so I could take them back to someone at Lullabot\". (I was managing partner at the time.) And then a few years ago, Jen Simmons and I tried to organize a DrupalChix NYC event and we had to get the intervention of the DA to get the event posted on the NYC Drupal group page. (The guys running it didn't want to be \"divisive.\") There were threats involved, and we kept the location of the event secret because we were genuinely scared of them interrupting it. Friends - this is ridiculous. And the sexism that *I* have felt in Drupal - specifically here in NYC - is part of the reason that I decided to go follow my happy trails somewhere else. I have no interest in being a trailblazer... in 2012. I would NOT encourage my daughter to go into Open Source (and she grew up going to DrupalCons). I am a working, single mother; an entrepreneur with a rich personal life and people that I mentor - my time and contributions are valued by people. That time, I decided, was best spent outside of Drupal. (Plus, I wanted to go back to working in fashion... not a lot of room for that there. ;-) I love a lot of the people in Drupal, I miss my friends, and I think that the community is mostly good. But for whatever reason, the Drupal community here in NYC does not seem to be able to shake this shit. I was having dinner last night with a close friend who is very successful in technology and has done work in Drupal. She said that she feels like this problem is getting worse in tech in general - that it is palpably worse than it was 20 years ago. And she has never seen it worse than in Drupal. This makes my heart ache. These were my experiences. These were my choices. No one else will have the same experiences, and I am not recommending that anyone else make the same choices. But, maybe it will help the dialogue. More power to anyone that has the energy to try to tackle this endemic problem. Anyone that wants to reach me can find me at lizakindred (at) gmail (dot) com. Cross posting to http://groups.drupal.org/node/237188. MY TWO CENTS amycham replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 16:04\nI go to events when I can. However, I haven't actually built a Drupal site in about a year and a half--I've been in marketing--so I'm never quite sure what to do with myself at meetups. (You think it's lonely being a woman at our meetups, try being in marketing. :D ) Unlike LizaK, though, I've never felt uncomfortable there, aside from awkwardness from not being up on my Drupal geekery. In fact, I've personally had more problems with unwanted/inappropriate attention and attitudes at social media and general business events than I have in Drupal. As with Lisa Rex, happy hours are way easier for me to go to, since the conversation is more casual and it's easier to participate even if you aren't heavy into the tech. However, I've been hanging around the NYC community to some degree for almost five years...I've slowly made friends and now have people I can chit chat with and feel comfortable asking \"dumb\" questions when needed. To walk into this community by yourself, particularly as a female and/or less-technical professional would, I think, be intimidating. Let's face it, the NYC community has a reputation; there are a lot of good, welcoming people, but we have our issues, too. I would also note that there are a lot of groups targeted specifically toward women in tech, and many of us feel compelled to be there--whether because we want to not feel like a small minority, or we are actively working to support and attract other women to the field, or we just know other people at the events. There are only so many events we can fit into our schedules, which means going to one event may mean skipping another. If I have one night a week I can go to something, do I go to DUG, Webgrrls, Girls in Tech, Women in Communications,a photo meetup, a social media meetup, or...? I don't know what the solution is, though there are pieces we can work with. Data integrity is fairly easy...if each meetup has someone committed to noting who attends, that can readily be compared to signups on GDO. Also, I'll be contacting organizers of other meetups/groups in my camp promotions, in hopes of drawing some registrations from other related tech groups and, yes, a couple female-oriented tech groups. A similar tactic could be used in collecting survey data. A couple press releases, a bribe (eg, enter drawing for a gift card), some direct marketing and a little patience should be able to generate a useful data pool. (I did a bunch of this in b-school and would be happy to help.) It's a sticky problem a lot of people are trying to figure out. As someone who was at one time the only girl in certain Java and game development classes, the only female developer in a company, and more recently the only marketing person in the room, I can attest that getting past the \"only-ness\" requires having a clear, compelling reason for being there. It's way easier to go someplace where you blend in. (I think that got kind of ramble-y, but hopefully it makes sense.) I\u0026rsquo;m amycham everywhere, including D.O., Gmail and Twitter.\nTHANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, PLEASE KEEP \u0026lsquo;EM COMING! nikki replied on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 18:10\nAlso, If you're concerned about posting publicly or backlash from responding, you can email them to nycdiversity@drnikki.org. I'm working on taking next steps with the survey, but I think this is such a GREAT start. Thank you thank you thank you! DRUPALCHIX AND MEETUPS techgirlgeek replied on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 15:53\nHi - My name is Karyn or, as I'm known in the Drupal Community, techgirlgeek. I feel very lucky that I live in the Denver/Boulder area, and feel very welcome, and accepted in the Drupal Community, especially in our local community. Since last summer I've been trying to get a DrupalChix centered meetup going in our community, alternating between Boulder and Denver each month. I've also, TG, never been the subject of such nastiness as LizaK had to endure. People never cease to amaze me. I have to say I have received a ton of encouragement from our local community, both men and women alike, to do these meetups. I have even had some prominent members respond in defense of the DrupalChix meetups to some not-so-kind posts against them continuing. I'm working hard to continue and grow these meetups, however, the attendance numbers are not increasing, quite the contrary. I have some regular attendees, and we've even switched the focus from presentations (since I was running out of steam presenting every month) to adopting the Drupal Ladder, but overall they are not growing in attendance. One thing that I did find was that even the perception of some of the women attending the meetups was that it was a beginners meetup and that \"very technical\" discussions wouldn't/couldn't happen there. I gave at least one drush talk, and not just how to download new modules. These statements were from other women, and not necessarily high level devs either. One gal is very new to drupal, and admits that she \"can't theme, and can't write code\". So, if women themselves refuse to see women as being technical, I'm not sure how we are supposed to convince the rest of the community. So, as Lisa Rex said, I think the women in our community are just so busy, meetups are not the priority. I will say that at some of our \"general meetups\" I have seen and heard that we are starting to see more women in attendance, going from about 3% to 10% of the attendance totals. Oh, Liza Emma replied on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 16:20\nOh Liza - your post broke my heart. I found the hack jam at DrupalCON Denver was a humiliating experience (trying to participate in groups of men who would not be engaged to include myself or another woman in the coding portion . We were assigned theme work ( I am a senior developer and suck at design , but that's all I was offered) . We both ended up leaving early to attend the sponsor fair). I would love to go to meetups, but I have a family and I just can't make it downtown (meetups in our town tend to be in pubs in the evening). I wonder how many women can be isolated in this way? I would love to do a Google hangout with drupalchix or something online that really connects us all without needing to physically be somewhere. I know in-person is ideal, but just my two cents. I think sometimes the moms go missing :) I tried to write about it here: http://tiptoes.ca/?p=231 REMOTE MEETUPS strangers replied on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 18:01\nI do try and have remote opportunities for my meetups, and Google Hangout is fun, but maxes out at 10 people. ","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/the-only-one/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUpdate:\u003c/strong\u003e Just so it doesn\u0026rsquo;t get lost, there is also \u003ca href=\"http://groups.drupal.org/node/237188\"\u003ethis post\u003c/a\u003e on g.d.o:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring introductions at last night\u0026rsquo;s New York City Drupal User Group (NYCDUG) meetup, each person said a variation of \u0026ldquo;Hi my name is _____. My drupal.org name is ______. I\u0026rsquo;m a __________ at _________.\u0026rdquo; Some included how long they\u0026rsquo;d been working with drupal, usually because it had only been a few months. It\u0026rsquo;s a nice thing to share because it reminds the rest of us to make sure we\u0026rsquo;re not leaving anyone out when we casually mention advanced concepts. I think the community is pretty good at embracing the tentative and uncertain beginners and making them feel included.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The only ____ in the room"},{"content":"In case you missed my presentation this afternoon, you can get slides, see tests, read notes and etc. etc at https://github.com/drnikki/Drupal-Camp-NYC-10\nIf you were in my presentation and had a question we didn’t cover, check out the README.txt.\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/testing-with-selenium/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn case you missed my presentation this afternoon, you can get slides,\nsee tests, read notes and etc. etc at\n\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/drnikki/Drupal-Camp-NYC-10\"\u003ehttps://github.com/drnikki/Drupal-Camp-NYC-10\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you were in my presentation and had a question we didn’t cover, check\nout the README.txt.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Testing with Selenium"},{"content":"(October 12, 2017) What follows is my thesis from the University of Hawai`i. It\u0026rsquo;s included here for anyone interested in grassroots activist organizing and its impact on the participants.\nReading this over, it feels like I wrote it 20 years and 100 books ago, and I\u0026rsquo;m thankful that my opinions and insight have evolved (for better or worse) since I wrote this. I believe that it\u0026rsquo;s important to practice openness wherever possible, and am publishing this in that spirit.\nGrassroots Feminist Organizing: A Model for Informal Education\n","permalink":"https://nikkostevens.com/posts/grassroots-organizing/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e(October 12, 2017)\nWhat follows is my thesis from the University of Hawai`i.  It\u0026rsquo;s included here for anyone interested in grassroots activist organizing and its impact on the participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading this over, it feels like I wrote it 20 years and 100 books ago, and I\u0026rsquo;m thankful that my opinions and insight have evolved (for better or worse) since I wrote this.  I believe that it\u0026rsquo;s important to practice openness wherever possible, and am publishing this in that spirit.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Grassroots Feminist Organizing"}]