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Gender Designs IT


Gender Designs IT

Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology
Studien Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung

von: Isabel Zorn, Susanne Maass, Els Rommes, Carola Schirmer, Heidi Schelhowe

53,49 €

Verlag: VS Verlag
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 09.11.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9783531902951
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 195

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I Introduction Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership 9 Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership Susanne Maass, Els Rommes, Carola Schirmer, Isabel Zorn “We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, […] declare our common - sire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share infor- tion and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ” This Declaration of Principles for Information Society was made during the UN 1 World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva 2003 . Current transformations towards the Information Society are affecting p- fessional and private lives, individual and societal interactions, economic and educational directions and technological developments. Or, to put it the other way around: New technologies and in particular information and communication technologies offer a multitude of opportunities for transformations in the m- tioned (and many more) fields. To emphasize this close connection the EU used th the term ‘Information Society Technology’ (IST) in their 6 Framework and put 2 forth the "IST Vision: anywhere anytime natural access to IST services for all" .
Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership.- The United Nations World Summit on the Information Society: Empowering Women as Shapers of the Information Society?.- Analysis and Deconstruction.- ’social’ Robots & ‘Emotional’ Software Agents: Gendering Processes and De-Gendering Strategies for ‘Technologies in the Making’.- Ambient Intelligence, between Heaven and Hell. A Transformative Critical Room?.- Feminist Technoscience Rearranging in the Black Box of Information Technology.- Construction of Information Society Technology.- Uncovering the Invisible: Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Call Center Work and Software.- E-Empowerment of Heterogeneous Feminist Networks.- Implicit/Explicit Alliances between Gender and Technology in the Construction of Virtual Networks.- Education and Empowerment for the Information Society.- Bridging Disciplines: Gender Studies and Computer Science in an E-Learning Course.- Computer Games: Playing Gender, Reflecting on Gender.- LogoGo — An Approach to the Design of Girl-Specific Educational Software.- Robotics and Gender: The Use of Robotics for the Empowerment of Girls in the Classroom.
Isabel Zorn, Prof. Dr. Susanne Maass, Carola Schirmer, and Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe work in computing science, digital media design, and gender studies at Bremen University, Germany. Dr. Els Rommes works at the Institute for Gender Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.<br>
How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be.<br>
A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied.<br>
The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.<br>
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Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology
How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be.<br>
A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied.<br>
The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.<br>

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