DJ’s choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to genderit at apcwomen.org or tweet us your links using #genderit.
Toys that code have parental appeal
“Only 10% of US schools offer computer programming classes. There are currently more than 600,000 open job positions requiring computing skills, but our schools graduated only 42,000 computer science majors last year.” More >
Source: The Huffington Post, Robin Raskin
Virtual reality app lets you meet others in imaginary places
“A new app called vTime hopes to bridge that gap by giving users full VR character avatars that can interact with each other in virtual environments in real-time.” More >
Source: Mashable, Adario Strange
Facebook bought a face swapping app & Twitter is bribing employees not to quit
“Facebook continued to open up its messaging platform to third-party services and apps by adding a new Spotify integration to Facebook Messaging.” More >
Source: Latin Post, Robert Schoon
SXSW addresses online harassment of women in gaming
Online harassment goes far beyond name calling and has moved into the realm of violent threats and rampant misogyny. More >
Source: NY Times, Conor Dougherty and Mike Isaac
Animals are taking selfies at the L.A. zoo
Google Photos is putting cameras with motion sensors in animal pens. More >
Source: BuzzFeed, Brendan Klinkenberg
This is it from GenderIT.org DJ for this week! Enjoy it, share it, dig into it. Feedback is always welcome. Send us interesting material to genderit at apcwomen.org or tweet us your links using #genderit
GenderIT.org, Women’s Rights Programme, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), March 15th 2016
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