Chelsey Hauge
My research is focused on equality and technology education, especially as related to gender and digital literacy. I am invested in knowing more about digital literacies and gender literacies, and to that end investigate how youth access, integrate, and produce knowledge about gender and STEM. A central area of investigation is how young people communicate about gender in the videos, tweets, blogs, and other digital stories they produce and circulate in digital networks. Another very important area is how we educate about gender and STEM, and the kinds of stories told about girlhood, STEM education, and media in educational spaces. I have worked with international development agencies, schools, and other educational institutions on digital literacy initiatives, girls media programming, and other literacy, social justice and media education and research efforts.
Currently, I am working on three projects.
I’m the lead Researcher on Seeds of Change, as part of the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership and Clayman Institute for Gender Studies at Stanford University. Despite ongoing efforts to equip girls with technology skills and an even broader focus to bolster girls’ STEM experiences, gender inequality in technology worlds stubbornly persists. We have identified transitions like starting college or grad school or a new job as being particularly challenging times when girls and women leave STEM careers. In response, we are creating a leadership curriculum to give girls and young women the frameworks, skills, and tools they require in order to persist as leaders in STEM.
My second project is about the recent rise in the number of high-profile adolescent girl activists working on gender issues by leveraging social media. I’m currently writing on Bana Alabed, the tween from Aleppo who has tweeted about the Syrian war and who is often referred to as a contemporary Anne Frank. I’m really interested in how Westerners learn about difference, violence, gender, and childhood by interacting with the content Bana produces.
Finally, my book project is about a youth media program in Nicaragua, that addresses the underlying tensions and beliefs that shape media literacy programs, with an eye to how young people deal with difference including race, gender, citizenship, and socio-economic diversities.
Currently, I am working on three projects.
I’m the lead Researcher on Seeds of Change, as part of the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership and Clayman Institute for Gender Studies at Stanford University. Despite ongoing efforts to equip girls with technology skills and an even broader focus to bolster girls’ STEM experiences, gender inequality in technology worlds stubbornly persists. We have identified transitions like starting college or grad school or a new job as being particularly challenging times when girls and women leave STEM careers. In response, we are creating a leadership curriculum to give girls and young women the frameworks, skills, and tools they require in order to persist as leaders in STEM.
My second project is about the recent rise in the number of high-profile adolescent girl activists working on gender issues by leveraging social media. I’m currently writing on Bana Alabed, the tween from Aleppo who has tweeted about the Syrian war and who is often referred to as a contemporary Anne Frank. I’m really interested in how Westerners learn about difference, violence, gender, and childhood by interacting with the content Bana produces.
Finally, my book project is about a youth media program in Nicaragua, that addresses the underlying tensions and beliefs that shape media literacy programs, with an eye to how young people deal with difference including race, gender, citizenship, and socio-economic diversities.
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