| Description |
xxi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Section 1. Being and becoming IT professionals. Ch. 1. Women, men and programming: knowledge, metaphors and masculinity / Inger Boivie -- Ch. 2. New gender relations in the transforming IT-industry of Malaysia / Ulf Mellström -- Ch. 3. Women in computer science in Afghanistan / Eva Maria Hoffmann -- Section 2. Working with and preparing to work with IT. Ch. 4. For me it doesn't matter where I put my information: enactments of agency, mutual learning, and gender in IT design / Johanna Sefyrun -- Ch. 5. Attaching people and technology: between E and government / Christina Mörtberg, Pirjo Elovaara -- Ch. 6. Against all odds, from all-girls schools to all-boys workplaces: women's unsuspecting trajectory into the UK ICT sector / Marie Griffiths, Helen Richardson -- Section 3. Representation in media. Ch. 7. Challenging gender stereotypes using virtual pedagogical characters / Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake -- Ch. 8. Absent women: research on gender relations in IT education mediated by Swedish newspapers / Martha Blomquist -- Ch. 9. Heteronormativity revisited: adolescents' educational choices, sexuality and soaps / Els Rommes -- Section 4. Adult education. Ch. 10. Approaching higher education: a life-world story of home-places, work-places and learn-places / Shirley Booth, Eva Wigforss -- Ch. 11. Gendered distance education spaces: keeping women in place? / Annika Bergviken-Rensfeldt, Samdra Riomar -- Ch. 12. Computer courses in adult education in a gender perspective / Minna Salminen-Karlsson -- Section 5. Digital learning. Ch. 13. Gendered knowledge production in universities in a Web 2.0 world / Gill Kirkup -- Ch. 14. Queen bees, workers and drones: gender performance in virtual learning groups / Gwyneth Hughes -- Ch. 15. Towards a feminist manifesto for e-learning: principles to inform practices / Gill Kirkup ... [et al.] |
| Summary |
"This book deals with diffe four features of the burgeoning knowledge society: gender, equity, learning, and information technology with the focus on gender - not in the taken-for-granted biological sense of sex but in the socially constituted sense of it"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-300) and index |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Sociological aspects.
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Technology and women.
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Technology -- Sociological aspects.
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Women in technology.
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| Author |
Booth, Shirley, 1945-
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Goodman, Sara.
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Kirkup, Gill.
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| LC no. |
2009044849 |
| ISBN |
1615208135 (hbk.) |
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1615208143 (ebook) |
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9781615208135 (hbk.) |
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9781615208142 (ebook) |
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