{"id":509,"date":"2021-07-08T18:41:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/?p=509"},"modified":"2021-07-08T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:41:17","slug":"discussion-questions-week-of-7-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/2021\/07\/08\/discussion-questions-week-of-7-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions Week of 7\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Response to #1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very impressed by everyone\u2019s article choices and discussions for the Expanding the Canon assignment. As a group, we explored so many issues from sexual orientation to gender to race to disability and so on. I especially enjoyed Ed\u2019s post on how CEO behavior affects diversity and organizational culture. This topic was similar to the one I selected (Strategic Diversity Leadership) but Ed took it further and highlighted the practical steps that CEOs can take by linking to a Forbes<\/em> article. The comics Ed used were funny and helped illuminate the issues in a different way. Sherri\u2019s post on the dark side of personality tests hit home for me. I have taken several online personality tests over the past month as I applied for various jobs, and now I am a little scared about how this information will be used. I think Sherri\u2019s use of bold statistics strengthened her post, and I really liked the movie trailer too. Kathleen\u2019s post on the assumptions that healthcare workers make about disabled people was eye-opening because it showed that bias can exist in the most unlikely places. This post featured my favorite media element, the video of Melissa Crisp-Cooper. Watching her daily activities and her interactions with the doctors created empathy and made the issue come to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I think of these thoughtful blog posts and all of the other articles that we\u2019ve read (and that came up in my searches), I got this overwhelming feeling, as if the problems were getting larger the more people studied them and tried to solve them. A big complex question started to form in my mind. Something like, are we expecting too much from our workplaces? Or, maybe another way to put it is, are we offloading our personal responsibility to treat each other fairly and with respect to this thing called a \u201cworkplace.\u201d Anyway, that is how I am seeing this topic differently at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response to #2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading Ian Bogost\u2019s article, \u201cThe Problem With Diversity in Computing,\u201d was sort of like following a person carrying a flashlight in the daytime pointing out fairly obvious things. \u201cThat there is a picnic table, and oh, we also have a diversity problem in the computer industry.\u201d Yawn. \u201cHey look, over there. STEM pipeline programs aren\u2019t working.\u201d Double yawn. Diversity problems and inclusion are everywhere, and Bogost does a solid job describing the ones in the tech industry. However, after getting the opinions of various academic types, he doesn\u2019t do much more than throw up his hands, concluding his article with a statement that would keep a philosopher up all night: \u201cthe problem with computing is computing.\u201d But along the way, Bogost\u2019s flashlight shines briefly on an issue that I believe lies at the heart of the diversity problem in the tech industry, and that\u2019s the wealth and power that have been created and concentrated in Silicon Valley. In my experience, people with power don\u2019t like to give it up or even share it. Bogost calls computing professionals \u201ca tribe separated from the general public,\u201d but he misses a chance to explore this idea further. We need to shine the flashlight into the faces of the leaders of the tribe, the CEOs who are shaping every aspect of society, and put them on the spot. Ask them: \u201cWhat did you do this week to give up some of your personal wealth or power to make your company or the tech industry more diverse and inclusive?\u201d In my view, these leaders have a professional and personal responsibility to work on the problem, and until we hold them accountable, the problem will remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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