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		<title>HCI, Or Look At My New Toy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is very US-centric. I get the impression that a lot of HCI professionals never matured past the &#8220;picture on the fridge&#8221; stage. If you read enough SIGCHI papers, it becomes that the &#8220;human&#8221; part is for NSF-funding rather than actually caring about people. And its understandable: we are very self rather than communally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dabbling with Video Game Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 03:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am on this little tangent after watching Danial Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Video Games and the Female Audience,&#8221; which I followed from &#8220;Considerations on Females as Game Consumers&#8221; at Border House (a feminist video gaming blog). One of the sticking ideas was that the marketing and design of female video game characters are exclusive towards women. Why are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminist Computing?</title>
		<link>http://refract.me/2010/04/10/feminist-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[So, I guess I'm too pissed off to mope this weekend. Ah well.] Computing is gendered. And I don&#8217;t mean ratio of men to non-men. I mean this shit uses pronouns. For a second-year computing course, we needed to choose partners for the assignments. To make this easier and not an exercise in &#8220;pick your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labels and Acts of Geekry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t call myself a geek, programmer, hobbyist, maker, gamer, or nerd.1 It isn&#8217;t that the definition doesn&#8217;t fit me; I just do not like the connotations of the terms. And I really don&#8217;t feel inclined to redefine the terms to remove the connotations. What&#8217;s wrong with being a…? Nothing. I am simply uncomfortable using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prove you&#8217;re a programmer</title>
		<link>http://refract.me/2010/04/08/prove-youre-a-programmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the major question for an interview I had yesterday. An interview where the only clear direction I had was that I would be doing a 15 minute presentation for. So, I, was expecting an interview focused on my communication skills. And a lot of it was. And then there was the &#8220;prove you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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