Women, Work and Computerization: Breaking Old Boundaries - Building New Forms
Published on 8. November 1994
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Paperback/Softback
462 pages
978-0-444-81927-7 (ISBN)
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An international acknowledgement of the problems existing in the area of gender and computing in the 1990s is provided by this publication. The need to produce strategies and policies to rectify the situation is highlighted. Papers, both reporting original empirical research and postulating interesting theoretical perspectives are structured around five parallel themes: Community, Communications and Information Networks; Information Technology (IT), Flexibility and Restructuring; Information Systems Design and User-Centred Perspectives; Education, Training and Learning; and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Knowledge and Technology.
An international acknowledgement of the problems existing in the area of gender and computing in the 1990s is provided by this publication. The need to produce strategies and policies to rectify the situation is highlighted. Papers, both reporting original empirical research and postulating interesting theoretical perspectives are structured around five parallel themes: Community, Communications and Information Networks; Information Technology (IT), Flexibility and Restructuring; Information Systems Design and User-Centred Perspectives; Education, Training and Learning; and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Knowledge and Technology.
An international acknowledgement of the problems existing in the area of gender and computing in the 1990s is provided by this publication. The need to produce strategies and policies to rectify the situation is highlighted. Papers, both reporting original empirical research and postulating interesting theoretical perspectives are structured around five parallel themes: Community, Communications and Information Networks; Information Technology (IT), Flexibility and Restructuring; Information Systems Design and User-Centred Perspectives; Education, Training and Learning; and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Knowledge and Technology.
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English
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United States
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
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978-0-444-81927-7 (9780444819277)
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Introduction. Philosophy and Information Systems. Supporting articulation work: aspects of a feminist practice of technology production (L. Suchman). Hard times: the politics of women's work in computerised environments (I. Wagner). Dichotomous thinking, women, and technology (S. Katsikides, M. Pohl). What's different in gender oriented ISD? Identifying gender oriented information systems development approach (H. Karasti). The influence of feminist theory on informatics course design (C.K.M. Crutzen). A feminist approach to the design of computer systems supporting co-operative work: the troublesome issue of co-operation seen from a women's perspective (T. Birkenes, A. Fjuk). Gender issues in computer networking (L.R. Shade). Living through the boundaries of information systems expertise - a work history of a Finnish woman systems developer (M. Vehvilaeinen). Everday experts? Professionals' women assistants and information technology (U. Holtgrewe). Two versions of the same: the text editor and the automatic letter writer as contrasting conceptions of digital writing (J. Hofmann). Who knows how? Who knows that? Feminist epistemology and artificial intelligence (A. Adam). To be (certain) or not to be (certain): a feminist perspective on artificial intelligence (C. Cooper, K. van Dam). Women and men in computer cartoons from Punch: 1946 to 1982 (G. Michaelson). Education and Training. Creative telematics (C. Preston). Computer games: a positive introduction to IT or a terminal turn-off? (W. Milne, J. Saini, B. Segal). A survey of attitudes to computing at the University of the Witwatersrand (I. Sanders, V. Galpin). By George, she's got IT! (M. Bell). Women defining technology for the 21st century: a report from America (A. Borg). Attitudes to computers and information technology: a case study of speech and language therapy students at Sheffield University (S.P. Whiteside). Languages and the computer: opportunities to develop IT skills (P. Ely, P. Simons). I dreamed I had a computer just like the kids: access to computing for the older woman (S. Lehman). Women-only computing in higher education (L. Stepulevage, F. Henwood, S. Plumeridge). Work, Flexibility and Restructuring. Windows on the workplace: the temporization of work (J. Greenbaum). Gender and technology at work: 15 years on (J. Webster). Developing our own mentoring skills (J. Emms). Telework: women's experiences and utilization of information technology in the home (A. Fothergill). Women in the computing workplace: some impressions (F. Grundy). Gender perspectives, office systems and organizational change (E. Green). Team leading in software development: a comparison between women and men (S. Sonnentag). Librarians and networks: breaking the boundaries that bind us (S. Fisher). CAD systems and the division of labour in knitwear design (C. Eckert, M. Stacey). Informal processes and women's careers in information technology management (G. Shapiro). Women and the information revolution: washed ashore by the third wave (K. Gunter).