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- Björkman, Christina, et al.
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Gender and IT Goes Second Millennium
- 2006
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Ingår i: E-CAP 2006 European Computing and Philosophy Conference. - Trondheim.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Where does feminist research on gender and IT stand today? What are the possibilities now and for the future? How does today’s research both build on and break with earlier approaches? In this article, we make a journey, where the starting point is taken in re-visiting two positions, liberal feminism and radical feminism, in the history of gender and (information) technology. We make a historical exposé to highlight some of the questions feminist technology research has been engaged in, in order to relate, inspire, challenge and partly also provoke future research. We then link these approaches to our own position in feminist technoscience research. This perspective opens up the world of information technology as a world of networks, relations, and negotiations going on within localised and situated practices, where IT and gender are continuously co-constructing each other. Feminist technoscience research challenges much of the present understandings, interpretations and even experiences of information technology and it demands re-thinking the foundations of computing. We discuss concepts and figurations developed within feminist technoscience research, that encourage us to imagine, think and do things differently, and we ask: “How do we make a difference?”
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- Mörtberg, Christina, 1950-, et al.
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Agential realism – something for gender and IT research?
- 2008
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Ingår i: The 4th European Gender & ICT Symposium, The 3rd Christina Conference on Women´s Studies.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- People´s everyday lives have changed and are continuously changing depending on thetechnologically mediated world we live in. Feminist researchers have explored the relationshipsbetween gender and information technology (IT), the gendering of IT and the co-construction ofgender and IT. This research has contributed to and created critical approaches towards pluralisticunderstandings of the relationships between gender and (information) technology. There exists abody of knowledge concerning not only gender, but also epistemological and ontological issues.However, explorations are ongoing processes in order to “encourage us to do this differently.”(Schneider 2005:21)In this exploratory paper we will use Karen Barad’s agential realism together with Haraway’sdiffraction to discuss systems development, the importance of materiality and its role in thedevelopment of IT-systems. While diffraction maps “where the effects of differences appear”(Haraway 1992:300), agential realism invites us to discuss systems development as materialdiscursivepractices. The focus is moved from interactions between humans/non-humans to intraactions(togetherness) in practices/doings/actions.We address the following questions: Does the approach of agential realism with intra-actions,apparatuses, and cuts help to find new fruitful understandings of gender and IT? Does theapproach help feminist researchers in developing future directions of gender and IT, creatingalternatives and acting accountably in the world of becoming, where agency remains at the heartof feminist practices?We are here in particular concerned with the design and construction of IT-systems and artefacts.In building these, different actors and practices can be involved, such as for example systemsdevelopers, programmers, specifications, design models, operating systems, programminglanguages, computers, protocols, managers, time, money, workplace culture, division of labour,gender and so on. In specific performances of material-discursive practices these are included orexcluded. Those included constitute the specific apparatus involved in boundary-making inmaterial-discursive practices. With a diffracted reading of various development practices we willmap the chosen apparatus and how it comes to participate in and enact a particular world ofbecoming. Due to the particular apparatus, categories and classifications, such as subjects andobjects, experts and non-experts, gender, information technology etc. are constituted.Consequently, what is included or excluded in the enactment orders the world differently sincedifferent realities (worlds) are sedimented out of particular practices/doings/actions. Beingaccountable means to ask if we need other kinds of practices and enactments, with newconfigurations of agency that work for change?
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- Mörtberg, Christina, 1950-, et al.
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Agential Realism – Something for Gender and IT Research?
- 2007
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Ingår i: The 3rd Christina Conference on Women´s Studies/The 4th European. - Helsinki.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- People´s everyday lives have changed and are continuously changing depending on the technologically mediated world we live in. Feminist researchers have explored the relationships between gender and information technology (IT), the gendering of IT and the co-construction of gender and IT. This research has contributed to and created critical approaches towards pluralistic understandings of the relationships between gender and (information) technology. There exists a body of knowledge concerning not only gender, but also epistemological and ontological issues. However, explorations are ongoing processes in order to “encourage us to do this differently.” (Schneider 2005:21) In this exploratory paper we will use Karen Barad’s agential realism together with Haraway’s diffraction to discuss systems development, the importance of materiality and its role in the development of IT-systems. While diffraction maps “where the effects of differences appear” (Haraway 1992:300), agential realism invites us to discuss systems development as material-discursive practices. The focus is moved from interactions between humans/non-humans to intra-actions (togetherness) in practices/doings/actions. We address the following questions: Does the approach of agential realism with intra-actions, apparatuses, and cuts help to find new fruitful understandings of gender and IT? Does the approach help feminist researchers in developing future directions of gender and IT, creating alternatives and acting accountably in the world of becoming, where agency remains at the heart of feminist practices? We are here in particular concerned with the design and construction of IT-systems and artefacts. In building these, different actors and practices can be involved, such as for example systems developers, programmers, specifications, design models, operating systems, programming languages, computers, protocols, managers, time, money, workplace culture, division of labour, gender and so on. In specific performances of material-discursive practices these are included or excluded. Those included constitute the specific apparatus involved in boundary-making in material-discursive practices. With a diffracted reading of various development practices we will map the chosen apparatus and how it comes to participate in and enact a particular world of becoming. Due to the particular apparatus, categories and classifications, such as subjects and objects, experts and non-experts, gender, information technology etc. are constituted. Consequently, what is included or excluded in the enactment orders the world differently since different realities (worlds) are sedimented out of particular practices/doings/actions. Being accountable means to ask if we need other kinds of practices and enactments, with new configurations of agency that work for change?
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- Alander, Sara, et al.
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Situated knovledge in the creation of sustainable technologies
- 2003
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In today's Sweden, sustainable development is seen as both an approach and a goal with selfevident value, and participation by members of society is a necessary resource in this process. Food and meal production are as vital as sustainable development and therefore the combination of the two forms a challenging field of research
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- Berg, Elisabeth, et al.
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Emphasizing technology: socio-technical implications
- 2005
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Ingår i: Information Technology and People. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0959-3845 .- 1758-5813. ; 18:4, s. 343-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – This article aims to focus attention on users of information technology (IT), especially mobile telephony. It focuses on what people actually say about mobile technology but also aims to pay attention to what they do not talk about, what is found in the silence, especially with new technology when much can be taken for granted. This latter is, according to Foucault, even more important to understand.Design/methodology/approach – The research draws on empirical research through 11 semi-structured interviews and interviews with five focus groups, comprising between four and eight care assistants in each group. The interviews were with three women and three men between 25-70 years old, five female public sector middle managers and care assistants from five focus groups at social services departments in the north of Sweden. A Foucauldian approach is adopted to interpret the findings and explore how their locations within the circuits of socio-technical networks engender uncertainty with mobile technology. The present spread of IT reinforces a belief that people are integrated into the circuits of socio-technical networks.Findings – The findings suggest, on the one hand, that new technologies like mobile communication can be used to organise our everyday lives, whilst, on the other, there are risks with the new technologies, which can discipline discourses.Originality/value – These issues are discussed from a sociological and informatics perspective.
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- Bratteteig, Tone, et al.
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Research practices in digital design
- 2010
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Ingår i: Exploring digital design. - London : Springer London. - 9781849962223 - 9781849962230 ; , s. 17-54
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the twenty-first century, we are literally surrounded by digital things and things that turn out to be digital – or have some digital parts or are parts of a larger system in which there are digital elements. We carry around mobile phones and watches; many also have additional music players, PDAs or PCs. We live in houses filled with digital networks and artefacts; we depend on infrastructures that are partly digital and have digital systems attached to them; we use public and private services that are digital, are based on digital infrastructures and have other digital systems attached to them; and we experience embedded, ubiquitous computing as we live in digitally enhanced environments that support our activities with or without our conscious control. The digital layer(s) in the world constitute a real world.
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