1.Read Kate Losse's honest essay carefully. Once you've completed it, respond to the following prompt:
In her essay, "The Male Gazed," Losse writes:
"Technology, after all, is fundamentally about power– it refers in the most elemental sense to the development of tools that extend the power of their owners."
What experiences have you had - either interpersonal (with faculty or other students interested or working in computing, programming, or engineering) or online (with platforms or information systems) - that come to mind when you read this passage? How do you see the power extended by technology companies shaping people's lives in ways that might be problematic or, worse, abusive?
2.Briefly, can you give one example where specific identities (namely: men) were positioned in tech history as the innovators or geniuses while specific others (namely: women) were positioned as mere objects for inspiration or exploitation? (Your example can be from real life or from fiction in film/television.)
3.In his forthcoming book - Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In - professor and writer Dylan Mulvin notes of the Lena image:
"[The] constant enfolding of heterosexual, male engineers' [desires] into the image production system underscores the constant reiteration of women's images as tools of masculine mastery over a knowledge domain?"
Reflect on your answer to the previous question. How does the example you gave illustrate the dynamic identified here by Mulvin?