Join us for an insightful talk by Dr. Siân Brooke from LSE on the study of sexism and gender issues in programming and coding cultures
Focusing on gender equity, Dr. Siân Brooke (she/her) will demonstrate how computational methods can be rehabilitated into critical social science. Building on her recent study on the popular programming forum Stack Overflow, Dr Brooke will show how she incorporated anonymity and non-binary gender into her large-scale study of sexism. Complimenting such computational work, Dr Brooke will also discuss her recent work on humour and sharing memes at hackathons, which examines the masculine characters of Incels, Virgins, and Nice Guys. She will also discuss her current project on GitHub collaborations with the Leverhulme Trust, which she is working on during her visit to the Hertie School Data Science Lab.
Speakers
Dr. Siân Brooke
Dr. Brooke is a Fellow in Computational Social Science and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) Department of Methodology. She is a Research Associate at the OII and affiliated with the Data Science Institute at LSE. She also holds awards from the British Academy, CIVICA, and Alan Turing Institute. Her research focuses on gender and equity, focusing on socialising in programming and the role of humour in Internet communities.
