EILEEN GREEN is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social and Policy Research (CSPR) in the School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teeside, UK. Her research interests focus around issues of social in/exclusion, especially gender issues. Her publications include "Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems" (co-edited), "Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity" (co-edited) and "Youth, Risk and Leisure: Constructing Identities in Everyday Life "(co-edited).