{"594257":{"#nid":"594257","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Here\u0027s How to Demolish the Controversial Google Diversity Memo With Just 3 Words","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in digital media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Here\u0026#39;s How to Demolish the Controversial Google Diversity Memo with Just 3 Words\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EInc\u003C\/em\u003E.com.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/08\/why-is-tech-so-awful\/536052\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewriting\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanti\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026#39;s website over the weekend, was the first person I\u0026rsquo;ve seen make this point. If women are under-represented in tech, African-Americans and Latinos\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ereally\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;are. According to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/PST045216\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECensus Bureau\u003C\/a\u003E, African-Americans make up more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but according to Google, only 2 percent of its U.S. employees are African-American. Hispanics are more than 16 percent of the U.S. population, but only 4 percent of Google employees.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/controversial-google-memo-on-diversity-can-be-demo.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-08-09 17:43:18","changed_gmt":"2017-08-24 14:53:11","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/controversial-google-memo-on-diversity-can-be-demo.html","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594940":{"id":"594940","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1503584868","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","changed":"1503584868","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226734","name":"Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66318,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg?itok=Ng8OKs2w"}}},"media_ids":["594940"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175136","name":"workplace diversity"}],"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":""}}}