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 My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.
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swapping gender on websites (a cognitive game)Ping created a little hack that allows you to read websites with the gendered pronoun information swapped. It’s a fascinating cognitive game because your brain is really used to certain assumptions about people based on gender. Spend a day surfing the web with the genders swapped and see when your brain starts itching. 4 comments to swapping gender on websites (a cognitive game)Leave a Reply |
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My Brain is Itching, Scratch It There Please
Most of what I know about gender swapping I learned from my friend Eve Summers. But Zephoria at apophenia suggests another way to generate a little cognitive gender identify confusion. She points us to a little hack that allows you…
Thanks for the mention. Your link points to an older version that isn’t running any more; the gender-swapper has moved to regender.com.
Sorry, my error. Fixed it.
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