Blog for Ada Lovelace!

Today is International Blogging Day for Ada Lovelace. Ada Lovelace was one of the first computer programmers in the world and she was female! Go Ada! So the purpose of International Blogging Day is to blog about a woman in technology to draw attention to their contributions in a male-dominated field. Here is the link to submit your pledge. http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay

The article I read for my class today titled 'The Absence of Hackerettes in the Culture of Programming" by Fatima Jonsson (part of the book Cyberfeminism in northern lights: Digital media and gender in a Nordic context) mentions the famous hackers Susan Thunder and Rosie X. "Susan Thunder, known for phone hacking, and Rosie X for hacking into Bulletin Board systems, shatter the myth of the male hacker" (p. 250). I recognized the name Susan Thunder but not Rosie X so I did some searching and I found that she is the editor of the first cyberfeminist zine titled Geek Girl. Here is the link for the blog. http://www.geekgirl.com.au/blog/. The blog contains a gallery of illustrations from the original Geek Girl magazine. Rosie X is from Melbourne, Australia and is also on Twitter http://twitter.com/rosiex.

Her painted portrait was also taken from the geek girl blog. I thought it was very creative.

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Jonsson, F. (2007). The absence of hackerettes in the culture of programming. In M.S. Elm & J Sunden (Eds.), Cyberfeminism in northern lights: Digital media and gender in Nordic context (pp. 243-264). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.