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Soy Cámara: Gender and Technology (2016)
Video | 11 min | Short

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Soy Cámara: Gender and Technology (2016)

Video | 11 min | Short

Neither history nor technology are innocuous tools. As the sociologist Judy Wajcman indicates, technologies reflect the values and experiences of the people who design them. The same could be said of history to understand the lack of ...See moreNeither history nor technology are innocuous tools. As the sociologist Judy Wajcman indicates, technologies reflect the values and experiences of the people who design them. The same could be said of history to understand the lack of presence of women and people from developing countries, both in the field of science and technology and in new spaces of communication such as Wikipedia or even Google. The new technologies are designed by young and white men, and Silicon Valley is a quarry of these programmers and technological designers, many of whom consider themselves "Randian heroes" in honor of the liberal and individualistic theories of Ayn Rand. What consequences stem from this techno-sociological dilemma? See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Self Self See fewer	Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Kimberly Bryant Self Self See fewer	That Moment When (2018)
John McCaskey Self Self See fewer	Left 4 Dead (2008)
Ayn Rand Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Night of January 16th (1941)
Leila Takayama Self Self See fewer	The 26%: Women Speak Out on Tech's Diversity Crisis (2015)
Judy Wajcman Self Self See fewer	Soy Cámara: Why do we work? (2016)