TY - GEN
T1 - More than an engineer
T2 - 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2018
AU - Johri, Aditya
AU - Heyman-Schrum, Cassie
AU - Ruiz, Daniel
AU - Malik, Aqdas
AU - Karbasian, Habib
AU - Handa, Rajat
AU - Purohit, Hemant
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/6/20
Y1 - 2018/6/20
N2 - The feminist theory of intersectionality asserts that experiences of social categories, such as gender, vary based on context and demographic factors and can be best understood by capturing and analyzing participants’ self-expressions. Social media provide a novel setting to study this phenomenon. We examined participants’ self-expressions on a campaign for increasing engineering diversity (#ILookLikeanEngineer) and found that, consistent with an intersectionality perspective, in addition to their identity as an engineer, participants opted to: a) expand upon and provide specifics about their engineering identity; b) expressed their affiliation with an institution or company; c) expressed personal aspects of their identity such as family or hobbies; d) expressed support for someone they knew who was an engineer; e) expressed solidarity with other social causes related to diversity; and f) expressed enthusiasm for or mentioned the campaign humorously. This study highlights the inherent complexity of identify that arises when people self-express themselves.
AB - The feminist theory of intersectionality asserts that experiences of social categories, such as gender, vary based on context and demographic factors and can be best understood by capturing and analyzing participants’ self-expressions. Social media provide a novel setting to study this phenomenon. We examined participants’ self-expressions on a campaign for increasing engineering diversity (#ILookLikeanEngineer) and found that, consistent with an intersectionality perspective, in addition to their identity as an engineer, participants opted to: a) expand upon and provide specifics about their engineering identity; b) expressed their affiliation with an institution or company; c) expressed personal aspects of their identity such as family or hobbies; d) expressed support for someone they knew who was an engineer; e) expressed solidarity with other social causes related to diversity; and f) expressed enthusiasm for or mentioned the campaign humorously. This study highlights the inherent complexity of identify that arises when people self-express themselves.
KW - Engineering identity
KW - Intersectionality
KW - Social media
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U2 - 10.1145/3209811.3212700
DO - 10.1145/3209811.3212700
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050454241
T3 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2018
BT - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 20 June 2018 through 22 June 2018
ER -