Technologies of Inclusion Gender in the Information Society

by Sorensen, Knut Holtan; Faulkner, Wendy; Rommes, Els

• ISBN13: 9788251928465
• ISBN10: 825192846X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Fagbokforlaget

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Technologies of Inclusion Gender in the Information Society

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 5
On the road to the Information Society: Does gender still matter?	p. 13
A disappearing digital gender divide?	p. 13
The persistence of gender gaps	p. 17
Moving targets? Gender and the Information Society	p. 24
Equal opportunities: Category politics and gender mainstreaming	p. 29
The SIGIS effort	p. 31
Overview of the book	p. 33
Changing perspectives on gender and technology: From exclusion to inclusion	p. 41
Gender and technology: What kind of problem?	p. 41
Exclusion narrative I: A world without women?	p. 44
Exclusion narrative II: A chilly ICT culture	p. 47
An inclusion narrative: The woman communicator	p. 50
A dynamic view of gender and ICT: The co-construction concept	p. 51
Thinking from exclusion	p. 54
Thinking from inclusion	p. 58
Reaching for the digitally excluded	p. 63
Local experts and social networks	p. 67
Roles of local experts in digital inclusion	p. 69
The Ardmore Network	p. 73
How digital in/exclusion is gendered	p. 77
One size does not fit all!	p. 83
Websites for women: New routes to digital inclusion	p. 87
Commercial women's magazines	p. 89
Femme (Norway)	p. 89
Libelle (Netherlands)	p. 91
iVenus (Ireland)	p. 93
Donna Moderna (Italy)	p. 95
Women's web magazines as 'assisted self-inclusion'	p. 96
Inclusion through on-line interactivity	p. 100
Symbolic aspects of digital inclusion	p. 103
Conclusions	p. 105
Fun and play in digital inclusion	p. 109
Previous research on gender, ICT and fun	p. 110
One place to have fun and another to do 'proper' computing	p. 114
Fun and social computing as a way to break dichotomies?	p. 116
Fun as a gateway to education?	p. 120
Women just want to have fun?	p. 123
Toy and tool, fun and useful, boys and girls	p. 125
Inclusion by design?	p. 129
Inclusion of women: Commercial motives?	p. 131
Why include women?	p. 134
Design practices and inclusion methods	p. 136
Designing from stereotypes	p. 137
The I methodology	p. 139
Reflexive I methodology	p. 140
User testing and participatory design	p. 142
Gender inclusive products through gender inclusive design?	p. 143
Getting women into computer science	p. 147
Analysing exclusion and inclusion: Women in ICT	p. 147
The WCI: Construction of an inclusion strategy	p. 152
Visibility and diversity: Actions within the WCI	p. 154
Actions targeted at school girls	p. 155
Actions aimed at getting women to apply: The quotas	p. 155
The advertising campaigns	p. 157
Other measures aimed at getting women to apply	p. 159
Actions aimed at getting women to accept their offered study place	p. 159
Actions aimed at retaining women students	p. 160
Lessons to be learnt: Why was the WCI a success?	p. 163
Making positive circles	p. 166
Empowering women in ICT through professional networks	p. 171
The networks	p. 174
Being a minority in ICT workplaces	p. 175
Networks of Empowerment	p. 177
Community	p. 178
Professional Development	p. 179
Visibility	p. 181
Networks as empowerment	p. 183
Bottom-up mechanism	p. 183
Transparent, flexible and open	p. 185
Conclusions	p. 188
A room of their own? Inclusion through women-centred ICT spaces	p. 191
Women-centred spaces and ICT?	p. 192
Women-only ICT training: A stepping stone to inclusion	p. 196
Networks for women in ICT: A safe haven from men?	p. 201
Women's spaces on the Internet: A virtual room of one's own?	p. 204
Designing for girls or women	p. 207
Does æfeminisation' work? Critical reflections on women-centred spaces	p. 210
The anatomy of inclusion	p. 215
Initiating inclusion	p. 217
Strategic thinking: The challenge of gender stereotypes	p. 220
Inclusion models and inclusion instruments	p. 226
Quantity and quality	p. 230
Technologies of inclusion	p. 235
Changing Gender?	p. 241
Co-productions of gender and ICT: The role of stereotypes	p. 243
ICT - a technology of inclusion in itself?	p. 246
Can we go beyond gender?	p. 249
Brief overview of the SIGIS focused studies	p. 253
References to the SIGIS focused studies	p. 273
References	p. 277
Authors	p. 299
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