Code for What?: Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice

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Synopsis
Coding for a purpose: helping young people combine journalism, data, design, and code to make media that makes a difference.Educators are urged to teach &“code for all&”—to make a specialized field accessible for students usually excluded from it. In Code for What? Clifford Lee and Elisabeth Soep instead ask the question, &“code for what?&” What if coding were a justice-driven medium for storytelling rather than a narrow technical skill? What if &“democratizing&” computer science went beyond the usual one-off workshop and empowered youth to create digital products for social impact? Lee and Soep answer these questions with stories of a diverse group of young people in Oakland, California, who combine journalism, data, design, and code to create media that make a difference. These teenage and young adult producers created interactive projects that explored gendered and racialized dress code policies in schools; designed tools for LBGTQ+ youth experiencing discrimination; investigated facial recognition software and what can be done about it; and developed a mobile app to promote mental health through self-awareness and outreach for support, and more, for distribution to audiences that could reach into the millions. Working with educators and media professionals at YR Media, an award-winning organization that helps young people from underserved communities build skills in media, journalism, and the arts, these teens found their own vibrant answers to &“why code?&” They code for insight, connection and community, accountability, creative expression, joy, and hope.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780262371834
Related ISBNs:
9780262047456
Publisher:
MIT Press
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Copyrighted By:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Education, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Epilogue by:
Kyra Kyles
Foreword by:
Christopher Emdin

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