{"348641":{"#nid":"348641","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Geek girls reject sexist Barbie book\u0027s message by remixing it","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen \u003Cstrong\u003ECasey Fiesler and Miranda Parker\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Program) heard about the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/barbie-engineer-book-girls-game-developers\/\u0022\u003Eshockingly sexist Barbie book\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBarbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer\u003C\/em\u003E, which actually teaches girls that they\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ecan\u0027t\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;be real engineers, the two roommates took matters into their own hands. Both had particular reasons to despise the book\u0027s message: Parker is a computer education student specializing in broadening participation in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dailydot.com\/tags\/stem\u0022\u003ESTEM\u003C\/a\u003E-related academic programs and careers, while Fiesler is a doctoral student in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-11-24 14:28:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:23","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Regents\u2019 Entrepreneurx","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/sexist-barbie-book-stem-remix-engineer-gaming\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}