Sharing from our wall. Interesting article given GSUSAs focus on STEM and their partnership with Mattel. The book is bafflingly called Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer. It was written by Susan Marenco and published by Random House. Despite its encouraging title, Marencos book actually tells pre-teen girls that Barbie can only contribute to the design of the game shes building... As Ribon describes in an increasingly cringe-inducing writeup about the book, Barbie is introduced as the designer of stereotypically girly games featuring cute little animals. Barbies work resembles Pet Rescue or similar mobile games—you know, not the ones real gamers make. Thats okay, though, because Barbie is apparently perfectly happy with her second-class status. “I’m only creating the design ideas,” Barbie tells Skipper. “I’ll need Steven and Brian’s help to turn it into a real game!” Shes laughing when she says it, though, so were assured that shes totally okay with her fate. Barbie appears to embrace her life as a pink-clad artist who gets waylaid by cute robot puppies and never makes a dent in the tech culture gender gap. dailydot/geek/barbie-engineer-book-girls-game-developers/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:16:01 +0000
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