Women, Work and Computerization

Charting a Course to the Future

AvEllen Balka,Richard Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Beskrivning

In addition, as the first Women, Work and Computerization conference of the new millennium, we hoped to encourage the broad community of scholars that has made past Women, Work and Computerization conferences a success to actively engage in imagining--and working towards-- a better future for women in relation to computers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-02-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:487 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Antal sidor:308
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781475769777

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Ellen Balka is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.Richard Smith is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Innehållsförteckning

Making the Computer Masculine.- Do Computers Transform People Into Women and Men?.- Net Gains.- Women And Computing.- The Globalization Of Gender in IT.- Women in Computer Science.- Gender Differences in Vancouver Secondary Students.- Why I.T. Doesn’t Appeal to Young Women.- Computer Self Efficacy and Gender.- Where Are They At With IT?.- ARC.- Information Systems.- Constructing Common Sense.- Masculine World Disguised as Gender Neutral.- Doubting the OBJECT World.- Gendered User-Representations.- Information System Development Methodologies.- Will ETs Understand Us If They Make Contact?.- Considering the Gender of Your Web Audience.- Gender Differences in Web Navigation.- Women in Computer-Mediated Discussions.- Electronic Democracy.- Discourses and Cracks.- Local Interpretations of Information Technology.- Courting Women @ E-Com.- Negotiating Time and Space for Every-Day Pleasure.- Young Girls On the Internet.- New Technology Increasing Old Inequality?.- Squeezing Librarians Out Of The Middle.- Sleep in a Sleepless Age.- “My Home Workplace is My Castle”.- The Cottage or the Sweatshop?.- Small Business Use of Electronic Networks.- Feminist Pedagogy and the Lap Top Computer.- Education On-Line: What’s In It For Women?.