Kimberly A. Scott
COMPUGIRLS: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age
COMPUGIRLS: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age
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COMPUGIRLS is a National Science Foundation-funded enrichment project that teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color, emphasizing empowerment, community advancement, and self-discovery. Kimberly A. Scott's experience as an architect of the program details the difficulties of translating participants' lives into a digital context and how the program evolved. The participants' stories show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills to spark effective action and bring about important change.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 12 October 2021
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Kimberly A. Scott delves into the significance of girls of color becoming techno-social change agents, combining technological expertise with a profound understanding of society to analyze and challenge inequality. Through the National Science Foundation-funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS, Scott offers a transformative program that teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color while fostering empowerment, community development, and self-discovery. Drawing on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS, Scott highlights the challenges of translating participants' lives into a digital context and traces the program's evolution. The compelling narratives of the participants showcase their innovative use of newly acquired technical and communication skills to drive meaningful action and bring about significant change. COMPUGIRLS serves as a valuable guide for understanding how girls of color can navigate and define their identities in the digital age, offering a powerful blend of theory and storytelling.
Weight: 342g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252086137
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