Gender-technology relations: exploring stability and change

Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing. HILDE G. CORNELIUSSEN Associate Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. She has published on gender and ICT, computer history, computer education and computer games, and is co-editor of 'Digital Culture, Play, and Identity' (2008). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Disrupting the Impression of Stability in the Gender-Technology Relation - Changing Images of Computers and its Users since 1980 - Discursive Developments Within Computer Education - Variations in Gender-ICT Relations Among Male and Female Computer Students - Stories About Individual Change and Transformation - Layered Meanings and Differences Within - Is there an Elsewhere? - References - Endnotes - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30013-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés