Gender Designs IT

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Gender Research and IT Construction: Concepts for a Challenging Partnership

      • Susanne Maass, Els Rommes, Carola Schirmer, Isabel Zorn

      Pages 9-32

   3. The United Nations World Summit on the Information Society: Empowering Women as Shapers of the Information Society?

      • Heike Jensen

      Pages 33-50

3. Analysis and Deconstruction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. ’social’ Robots & ‘Emotional’ Software Agents: Gendering Processes and De-Gendering Strategies for ‘Technologies in the Making’

      • Jutta Weber, Corinna Bath

      Pages 53-63

   3. Ambient Intelligence, between Heaven and Hell. A Transformative Critical Room?

      • Cecile K. M. Crutzen

      Pages 65-78

   4. Feminist Technoscience Rearranging in the Black Box of Information Technology

      • Christina Björkman, Pirjo Elovaara, Lena Trojer

      Pages 79-94

4. Construction of Information Society Technology

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Uncovering the Invisible: Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Call Center Work and Software

      • Susanne Maass, Els Rommes

      Pages 97-108

   3. E-Empowerment of Heterogeneous Feminist Networks

      • Tanja Carstensen, Gabriele Winker

      Pages 109-120

   4. Implicit/Explicit Alliances between Gender and Technology in the Construction of Virtual Networks

      • Tanja Paulitz

      Pages 121-131

5. Education and Empowerment for the Information Society

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Bridging Disciplines: Gender Studies and Computer Science in an E-Learning Course

      • Ruth Meßmer, Sigrid Schmitz

      Pages 135-147

   3. Computer Games: Playing Gender, Reflecting on Gender

      • Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

      Pages 149-159

   4. LogoGo — An Approach to the Design of Girl-Specific Educational Software

      • Bettina Munk

      Pages 161-174

   5. Robotics and Gender: The Use of Robotics for the Empowerment of Girls in the Classroom

      • Susann Hartmann, Heike Wiesner, Andreas Wiesner-Steiner

      Pages 175-188

6. Back Matter

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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" .

• Frauenforschung
• Gender
• Gender Research
• IT
• Informationstechnologie
• Softwaredesign
• Technologiegestaltung
• technology

"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

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.

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