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- Björkman, Christina
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Computer Science, Gender and Knowledge : Situated Readings
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Ingår i: How do we make a difference?. - Luleå : Division Gender and Technology, Luleå University of Technology. - 9197256897 ; , s. 157-174
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A text is read, interpreted and comprehended in different ways, depending on for example the perspectives of the reader. As a reader I take an active part in the creation of meaning when I interact with the text and so also, indirectly, with the author(s). In this paper I explore what I call situated readings, using the concept of partial perspectives in reading a text. I will read a text on women and computer science, an article from Communications of the ACM 1997. This article has gained a lot of attention and is still frequently cited within the community of computer scientists. This reading exercise reflects my own development, in that I explicitly try to make use of my background and experiences. I am a lecturer in computer science, and for a number of years I have been interested in questions and issues surrounding the under-representation of women within computer science and in the various different attempts to define, describe and suggest solutions to this ‘problem’. I have gone from taking part in, and actively leading, projects targeting women within CS, to an interest in trying to gain a complex understanding of this issue and challenging existing frameworks and explanations. The reading will reflect how my questions mainly concerning the low number of women in CS have evolved, as a result of experience and later from feminist studies, into other questions, approaching “the science question” (Harding 1986).
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- Elovaara, Pirjo
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Information Technology : Are Women Outsiders and/or Insiders?
- 2003
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Ingår i: How do we make a difference?. - Luleå : Gender and Technology, Luleå University of Technology. - 9197256897 ; , s. 21-28
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden public images of information technology and gender often focus on women´s absence in education and professions in the IT sector. These presentations are numerous in campaigns and projects with the aim of encouraging women to engage in computer science and the IT sector. In my paper I create other images and representations by the use of two feminist figurations - Rosi Braidotti´s cartography and Donna J.Haraway´s diffraction. My point of departure is taken in librarians´ everyday practices when I create another map as well as other meanings than those based on women´s absence. There is a predominance of women working in libraries in Sweden. The inclusion of librarians makes sense of the image of the IT sector, but are they insiders or outsiders?
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