Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Universities responded to computer-science capacity shortages by limiting enrollment and restricting access to majors."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science

Source authors Eric Roberts

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Industry recruitment contributed to the early-1980s shortage of computer-science faculty."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science

Source authors Eric Roberts

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"In 1979 fewer than 100 of 248 new U.S. and Canadian computer-science PhDs chose academic careers while more than 650 academic positions were available."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science

Source authors Eric Roberts

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Academic computer science experienced a severe capacity crisis around 1984 because student demand outgrew universities’ ability to recruit enough faculty."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science

Source authors Eric Roberts

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"The North American home-video-game market contracted by roughly 97% during the 1983 crash, falling from about $3.2 billion to about $100 million by 1985."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title From the Atari Shock to a Modern Crisis: Analyzing Mass Layoffs in the Post-Pandemic U.S. Video Game Industry

Source authors Jiesi Ma

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Nintendo conducted U.S. market research and subsequently positioned the NES primarily as a toy for young boys."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s

Source authors Megan Condis; Jess Morrissette

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Early Atari advertising deliberately reached across gender and age and presented the home console as entertainment for the whole family."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title “Have You Played Atari Today?”: Music and Audience in an Early Video Game Advertising Campaign

Source authors William Gibbons

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Contemporary research in 1985 described computing culture as more consistent with male adolescent culture and found that arcade and educational software was designed disproportionately with boys in mind."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Pool Halls, Chips, and War Games: Women in the Culture of Computing

Source authors Sara Kiesler; Lee Sproull; Jacquelynne S. Eccles

Source year 1985

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Among the Carnegie Mellon students studied, 44% of women versus 9% of men connected their interest in computer science to another arena or broader purpose."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Computing for a Purpose: Gender and Attachment to Computer Science

Source authors Jane Margolis; Allan Fisher; Faye Miller

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Margolis and Fisher identified the male adolescent hacker as a dominant cultural image of what a successful computer scientist should look like."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title GEEK MYTHOLOGY AND ATTRACTING UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN TO COMPUTER SCIENCE

Source authors Jane Margolis; Allan Fisher

Source year 1997

Confidence high

Importance high