Gender Designs It: Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology

ISBN-13: 9783531148182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 196 str.

Isabel Zorn; Susanne Maaß; Els Rommes

Opis

I Introduction Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership 9 Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership Susanne Maass, Els Rommes, Carola Schirmer, Isabel Zorn We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, ] declare our common - sire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share infor- tion and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration of Principles for Information Society was made during the UN 1 World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva 2003 . Current transformations towards the Information Society are affecting p- fessional and private lives, individual and societal interactions, economic and educational directions and technological developments. Or, to put it the other way around: New technologies and in particular information and communication technologies offer a multitude of opportunities for transformations in the m- tioned (and many more) fields. To emphasize this close connection the EU used th the term Information Society Technology (IST) in their 6 Framework and put 2 forth the "IST Vision: anywhere anytime natural access to IST services for all" ."

Recenzje

"Obwohl Gender-Forschung und Computerwissenschaften wie zwei getrennte Welten erscheinen, beweist dieses Buch, wie inspirierend eine Konfrontation und eine Kooperation der beiden Welten sein kann." soziale technik - Zeitschrift für sozial- und umweltverträgliche Technikgestaltung, 04/2008

"Die neuen Erkenntnisse der unterschiedlichen und interessanten Beiträge des Buches können dazu beitragen, auf den ersten Blick so unterschiedliche Bereiche wie Informatik und Genderforschung anzunähern. Das Buch zeigt, wie anregend eine Gegenüberstellung der Ergebnisse der der Informationstechnologie und der Genderforschung sein kann." feministische studien - Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 01/2008

"Dieser Band führt unterschiedlichste Beiträge zum Thema zusammen: Projektbeispiele, Analysen, Beobachtungen. Den Herausgeberinnen gelingt eine kluge Strukturierung dieser Vielfalt, durch die die einzelnen sehr unterschiedlichen Beiträge zusammengehalten werden. Das Buch ist lesenswert für alle, die sich in der Fülle verschiedener Arbeiten, Ansätze und programmatischer Sichtweisen orientieren möchten." FIfK Kommunikation - Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung, 04/2007

Spis treści

Mit Beiträgen von Jutta Weber, Corinna Bath, Cecile Crutzen, Christina Björkman, Irjo Elovaara, Lena Trojer, Susanne Maass, Els Rommes, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Tanja Paulitz, Ruth Meßmer, Sigrid Schmitz, Gabriele Winkler, Tanja Carstensen, Heike Jensen u.a.

O autorze

Isabel Zorn, Prof. Dr. Susanne Maass, Carola Schirmer, and Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe work in computing science, digital media design, and gender studies at Bremen University, Germany. Dr. Els Rommes works at the Institute for Gender Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Blurb

How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be.
A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied.
The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.