Week 2 |
Session 13 (30th Nov)
- Gender and Cultures of Production
In the final session of the semester we will look at the importance of gender within cultures of production. Even though gender, and particular ideas about masculinity and technology, will be discussed throughout the course, in this session we will address studies that have specifically highlighted the role of gender in production. We will use the case study of the microwave, the food processor and the smart home.
Key Readings
Baym, N (1995) 'The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated
Communication'. In Jones S. (Ed) (1995) Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. London: Sage
Danet, B (1998) 'Text as Mask: Gender, Play, and Performance on the
Internet'. In Jones S. (Ed) (1998) Cybersociety 2.0. Revisiting Computer
Mediated Communication and Community. London: Sage
Dertouzos, M (1997) What Will Be. How The New World of Information will
Change Our Lives. Piatkus: London
Fernback, J (1999) 'There is a There There. Notes towards a Definition ofCyber Community'. In Jones S (Ed.) (1999) Doing Internet Research. Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. London: Sage
Gill, R (2000) Cool, Creative and Egalitarian? Exploring Gender in Project-Based New Media Work in Europe. Information Communication & Society , Vol. 5 Issue 1 (Available here)
Hacker, S (1989) Pleasure, power and technology: some tales of gender, engineering, and the cooperative workplace. London: Unwin Hyman
Hopkins, P (Ed) (1998) Sex/machine: readings in culture, gender, and technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Jones S (Ed) (1998) Cybersociety 2.0. Revisiting Computer-Mediated
Communication and Community. London: Sage
Jones, S (Ed) (1997) Virtual Culture. Identity and Communication in
Cybersociety .London: Sage
Jones S. (Ed.) (1995) Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. London: Sage
Julier, G (2001) The Culture of Design. London: Sage (Chapter eight)
Kirkup, G & Smith, L (Eds) (1992) Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender. Oxford : Polity Press
Mackay, H (Ed) (1997) Consumption and Everyday Life. Sage: London.
Massey, D (1996) 'Masculinity, Dualisms and High Technology'. In Duncan (1996) BodySpace: destabilizing geographies of gender and sexuality . London : Routledge
Matthews, G (2003) Silicon Valley, Women and the California Dream: Gender, Class and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century, Stanford: Stanford University Press
Miles, I, Cawson, A and Haddon, L (1992) 'The Shape of Things to Consume'. In Silverstone, R & Hirsch, E (1992) Consuming Technologies. Media and information in Domestic spaces. London: Routledge
O'Brien, J (1999) 'Writing in the body: gender (re)production in online interaction'. In Smith A & Kollock P. (Ed.) (1999) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Sage
Oudshoorn, N & Pinch, T (2003) How Users Matter. London, MIT Press
Rheingold, H (1993) Virtual Communities. MA: Addison - Wesley.
Saxenian, A (1996) Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, Harvard: Harvard University Press
Silverstone, R & Hirsch, E (1992) Consuming Technologies. Media and information in domestic spaces. London: Routledge
Smith A & Kollock P (1999) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Sage
Ullman, E (1997) Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents. City Lights. An interview with Ellen Ullman the author is available here
Turkle S (1995) Life On The Screen. Identity in the Age of the Internet.
London: Phoenix
Wellman, B & Haythornthwaite, C (Eds) The Internet in Everyday Life. Oxford: Blackwell
Woolgar, S (Ed) (2002) Virtual Society. Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Links
'The New Boys Network' (Guardian article about women in Silicon Valley) available here
'Valley of the boys?' Women struggle to find niche in male-oriented tech culture . available here
The women of Silicon Valley website is available here
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