I wrote my second draft this week. The research I did was somewhat lacking because I just decided on a concrete topic and the resources are scarce, or more generic. The resources usually have to do with stereotypes in the computer science industry. Concepts like technical privilege, same idea as any other types of privileges but for computer science, or technology in general. The idea of technical privilege might sound pretty self explanatory, according to this paper, is being assumed to be knowledgable about technology. In programming, problem solving, just technology in general. The author tells a few stories from his perspective of some people who didn’t have this technical privilege. Examples of this could be people being put in positions they’re maybe not completely qualified for, being able to learn what they need on the job, fake it until they make it, because of the way they look, because they’re part of the major demographic for computer science. On the tail end of this, people not being put in positions that they ARE qualified for because they’re not part of this major demographic.
I plan on finding many more papers, and even saw some NPR talks about the topic which should be interesting. The most challenging part for me is tying this to home, this really
doesn’t hit any notes on home. I have some very rough ideas, but I’m not sure how well it will work.