by Shanley Kane on November 6th, 2014

Today, Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) announced an “unprecedented collaboration” with Twitter to address online harassment. WAM!’s pilot program asks Twitter users experiencing gendered harassment to submit their experiences to the organization through a web form: “WAM! will escalate validated reports to Twitter and track Twitter’s responses to different kinds of gendered harassment.” WAM! will Read More

by The Editor on November 6th, 2014

Blameful Post Mortem Amazon released its diversity data following disclosures by other major tech companies… but unlike them, neglected to break out the makeup of its tech workforce. The diversity data it has released tells an all-too familiar story of white male dominance, particularly and disproportionately in management roles. Ultimately, Amazon’s decision not to break out Read More

by The Editor on November 5th, 2014

One thing is clear about social media: Mainstream social networks have consistently failed to support diverse and marginalized users. Online harassment and abuse is rampant while platforms flatly refuse to implement effective reporting or filtering systems. Oppressive “real name” requirements, whorephobic policies, and “features” that compromise user consent, privacy and security are just a few Read More

by Shanley Kane on October 30th, 2014

A few years ago, I wrote about some of my experiences at tech events in an essay called “Seethe and Grin.” In it, I catalogued just a small fraction of the issues that I have experienced while attending tech events, ultimately leading me to stop attending them at all: I know deeply, and by now Read More

by The Editor on October 30th, 2014

Have tips on news we should include in this section? Tweet us @ModelViewMedia. Sign up to get this newsletter in your inbox each week.  A Rainbow PUSH Coalition survey of the boards of 20 top tech companies finds that only four of their combined 189 directors are black or Hispanic, and that “Eleven of the 20 Read More

by The Editor on October 23rd, 2014

Welcome to our weekly round-up of the good, bad and ugly in tech culture. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox each week. Blameful Post Mortem As Gamer Gate rages on, driving women from their homes, gaming and the Internet, Twitter, Reddit and other platforms still staunchly refuse to address terrorism and Read More

by Shanley Kane on October 21st, 2014

Fast-following news of Snapchat hacks: revelations that social networking app “Whisper” has deliberately lied about anonymity, privacy, tracking and data storage on its platform while explicitly monitoring users, retaining “deleted” data indefinitely, sharing user information with the government and specifically tracking high profile and potentially “newsworthy” users. Whisper is an “anonymous social network” that has billed itself as “untraceable, Read More

by The Editor on October 16th, 2014

Welcome to our weekly round-up of the good, bad and ugly in tech culture. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox each week. Blameful Post Mortem Our blameful post mortem this week goes to male “allies.” As women in tech and gaming withstand weeks of coordinated attacks by hate groups, male allies Read More