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- Elovaara, Pirjo, et al.
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Gender Budgeting, Human Resources, Organisational Culture -Development of Methods
- 2015
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- GENISLAB, is a four year project (2011 - 2014) within the 7th Framework Programme for research and technology. The aim of the project is to promote organizational change in six European scientific organizations. Each partner develops its own Tailored Action Plan based on three dimensions, Gender Budgeting, Human Resources (HR) Management and Gender and Organisational Culture and Stereotypes. This report presents results of quantitative and qualitative data on Gender Budgeting and HR management as well as comments on organizational culture.
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- Fuenfschilling, Lea, et al.
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Norm-critical innovation as a way forward for responsible innovation? Evidence from a Swedish innovation policy program
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Responsible Innovation. - Philadelphia : Routledge. - 2329-9460 .- 2329-9037. ; 9:3, s. 371-397
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2014, the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova set up the program ‘Gender and Diversity for Innovation’, which has its roots in norm-critical innovation. In line with rationales for responsible innovation, a central aim of the program is to identify and challenge discriminatory norms to develop more inclusive and equal innovation processes. This article presents the findings of an in-depth analysis of 34 projects funded under the program. It explores how norm-critical innovation has been practiced and performed in various empirical settings and whether norm-critical innovation practices could be a way forward for the implementation of responsible innovation. Using a qualitative research design, we identify the most common activities and outputs in the projects and carve out the core characteristics of norm-critical innovation practice. Furthermore, the paper explores the value and limitation of norm-critical approaches for fostering responsible innovation and addressing societal challenges more broadly. © 2022 The Author(s).
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- Paxling, Linda
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Design Fiction as Norm-Critical Practice
- 2018
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Ingår i: INTERACTIVITY, GAME CREATION, DESIGN, LEARNING, AND INNOVATION. - Cham : SPRINGER. - 9783319769080 ; , s. 490-499
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transdisciplinary fields of design and feminist technoscience share a common interest in focusing on the world in a state of always becoming, always changing. Within feminist technoscience, norm-critical perspectives are implemented to shed light on unequal sociotechnical infrastructures. Within design research, generative methods of critical design and design fiction encourage processes of fictional prototyping and storytelling that infuse discussions on what kind of world we want to live in. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how design fiction can be used as a method to address norm-criticality in media technology education. Based on a week-long design fiction workshop with undergraduate students, three student projects are analyzed in detail. The analysis suggests design fiction can be used as a norm-critical practice to invoke discussions on values and beliefs within media design processes as well as established narratives of futuring.
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- Paxling, Linda
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Design-games and future-making : A technoscientific exploration among Ugandan technology hubs
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The argument for this presentation is that a feminist technoscientific approach is vital when exploring critical, multilayered issues of postcolonial ICT, gender and user design in a sociotechnical environment of mobile development, in this case entrepreneurs located at technology hubs in Kampala. Using diffraction as a method for exploring user design, gender, and future-making among the entrepreneurs, the empirical material consists of a variety of perspectives and stories that not only tells of what is missing in terms of ICT infrastructure, smartphone technologies or national policies but also what is actually there and happening right now with hackathons, start-up companies and more women visible in the ICT sector. The presentation will also provide examples of different design processes between the actors in the environment of mobile application development, to distinguish between different design approaches, entangle design-games and figure out how and if user-centered design comes into focus.
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- Paxling, Linda
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Exploring technology design among mobile entrepreneurs in Kampala : An open space workshop
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. - : WILEY. - 1681-4835. ; 86:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are located at the center of international development and considered vital for the progress of the current sustainable development goals. ICTs are embedded in cultural structures and social norms, which provide both possibilities and challenges to the people working with technologies such as mobile phones. Drawing upon theories and methodologies of feminist and postcolonial technosciences, my research objective is an exploration of how young entrepreneurs in Uganda affect and are affected by technology design. This article is based on conversations from an Open space workshop that took place at a tech hub in Kampala in 2012. The theme of the workshop was "The mobile futures of Uganda: sharing visions and challenges for today and tomorrow." The workshop discussions showcase how norms and values are embedded in technology design and how colonial relationships still linger and affect contemporary design and technology practices. Together with my empirical material, I perform technoscientific stories that discuss challenges in entrepreneurship, working in software development and user design practices. I argue that studying the social and political dimensions of technology design is crucial for forming more inclusive and heterogeneous ICT practices.
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- Paxling, Linda
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The reality-producing dynamics of the mobile phone in Uganda
- 2015
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The expectations and visions of the mobile phone in a development context is vast. International development institutions such as the World Bank, World Summit of the Information Society and International Telecommunication Union together with business conglomerates Google and Facebook have all invested their perspectives and visions of how the information and technology community should unfold in Uganda. How do their perspectives merge, interfere and contrast with the perspectives and visions of actors in Uganda? The research objective is to explore the feminist and postcolonial technoscientific practices of the mobile phone in a Ugandan context. In my exploration I use ethnographic, participatory and narrative methods to study the imaginations and real-time uses of the mobile phone among actors in the ICT community. I ask how actors in technology hubs in a low-income country relate to local innovations and design processes. Using a diffractive method for analysis I discuss how stories of corruption and responsibility are entangled with the development of mobile applications for the local context and the relation of designers and users. I ask how the mobile phone is changing the socio-technical relations of gender, technology and development. Using diffraction, intersectionality and figuration as cartographic nodes for discussion I examine how the initiatives Girl Geek Kampala and Women in Technology Uganda renegotiate and reconstitute the understandings of gender and technology. I ask how the mobile phone is creating and changing the infrastructuring in Uganda. I address the situatedness of the mobile infrastructuring by departing in the generic properties of an infrastructure by Star and Ruhleder (1996). The mobile phone is being used for entertainment purposes, developmental goals and marketing strategies and cannot be singled out as a device that represents a uniform vision of the information society. The examination of situatedness suggests that the strength of understanding the mobile infrastructure lies in the ambiguity of sustaining and transforming relations simultaneously, or better yet, a posthumanist performativity where human and non-human forms of agency are taken into account. The entanglements of postcolonial information and communication technologies, feminist technoscience and design form the basis for a discussion on how we invite collaborations between policy makers, business entrepreneurs and civil society organizations that engage and shape the futures we are responsible for. My ambition is to develop ways of re-thinking social innovation and technology development, which interfere with linear economic development and raises the participatory paradigm in science and technology policy.
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- Paxling, Linda
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The visionary narrative of a feminist and postcolonial technoscientific researcher
- 2012
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An essay submitted and approved for the PhD Course Writing Imaginaries, Making Futures, Intergender Research School. http://www.intergender.net/?q=node/132 A text about my role as a technoscientific practitioner and it's relation to the interdisciplinary fields of ethnography, mobile technologies for development, design and postcolonial practices.
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- Paxling, Linda, 1982-
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Transforming technocultures : Feminist Technoscience, Critical Design Practices and Caring Imaginaries
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The digital era has brought forward many innovative technologies but their contribution to resilient, inclusive and sustainable societies remain ambiguous. Innovation has often been considered a key component for production and economic growth, but this notion is gradually changing. Innovation is turning into a practice for societal responsibility and sustainable development, transforming the directionality of the grand challenges of our time. I address this transformation of directionality by focusing on the norms and values which are embedded in technology design. The main objective of this thesis is to develop knowledge on how norms of innovation, technology and development are embedded in technoscientific storytelling and how these narratives affect and are affected by technocultural practices. I have approached this objective by engaging with technocultures in Uganda and Sweden where I have explored how assemblages of people, technologies and infrastructures merge, overlap and contrast with each other in technological development. The empirical work has been quite different in scope and context and have tackled norms and values differently. In Uganda I met with representatives from the urban ICT community to discuss the challenges and possibilities with the mobile phone infrastructure. I held an Open Space Workshop on mobile development, and met with the co-founders of two women’s tech initiatives. In Sweden I did a pilot study on a norm-critical game culture and worked with critical design practices in a higher learning context.The different projects present a complex scenario of how technoscientific stories are power-laden, contradictory and messy. I have located several dominant narratives that affect, and are also affected by, the actors in the different technocultures. The dominant narrative of a linear development of economic growth and technological advancement creates technocultures of marginality and inequality that have ethical implications for individuals and infrastructures in Uganda. Working with feminist and postcolonial technoscience I challenge the binary innovation systems of science and modernity and argue for a more heterogeneous approach to development and epistemology. Another dominant narrative concerns the norms and values of how games and media techno- logy can and should be performed. Working with critical design practices I encourage a learning platform that creatively critiques design processes of ‘the no longer and the not yet’.The historical present has created unjust relationships that are systematically power- laden and violent. We cannot ignore these relationships. When we choose to re- imagine science, technology and innovation as transformative with the possibility of subverting these violent relationships, we may be able to foster more response-able and caring relationships. When we acknowledge knowledge production as situated, partial and located we learn to listen for more stories than one.
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- Paxling, Linda
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Women’s tech initiatives in Uganda : Doing intersectionality and feminist technoscience
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gendered Power and Mobile Technology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 9781315175904 - 9781351708142 ; , s. 151-165
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Information and communication technologies (ICT) and mobile phones in particular play an important role in the narrative of international development. This chapter explores how the start-up of women’s ICT initiatives in Kampala, Uganda uses structural adaptation and resistance through intersectionality and feminist technoscience. It proposes a technological storytelling of doing intersectionality where processes of categorization are not distinguished by being either disadvantaged or privileged but are formulated as an assemblage. The chapter presents patriarchy and patriarchal structures, and is concerned with the gendered structures that discriminate and disadvantage women. Feminist technoscience is a transdisciplinary field that queries the epistemological foundations of science and technology through feminist concepts and methods. The relationship between gender and technology inheres tricky and disconcerting meanings and histories. The homogeneous narrative of the oppression of women is particularly important to emphasize when discussing gender and ICT initiatives internationally. © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Caroline Wamala Larsson and Laura Stark; individual chapters, the contributors.
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