"This book traces the gendering of women's work and technology from its historical roots in factories, offices, IT companies, and hospitals to contemporary workplaces including platform- and AI-based work. It adopts a feminist/intersectional perspective on design with a focus on norm-critical, social justiceoriented, and decolonizing approaches"--
"This book traces the gendering of women's work and technology from its historical roots in factories, offices, IT companies, and hospitals to contemporary workplaces including platform- and AI-based work. It adopts a feminist/intersectional perspective on design with a focus on norm-critical, social justiceoriented, and decolonizing approaches"--
Ellen Balka is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has published in the fields of gender and technology, health informatics, health and medicine, and community academic research partnerships. She received a YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Workplace Innovation, a career achievement award from British Columbia Faculty Associations, and a Michael Smith Senior Scholar's Award, and she has held international research fellowships in Austria and Norway. Balka served as the Principal Investigator of Action for Health and contributions she and her team made received the Artful Integrators Award for Participatory Design.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Gender and Technology - A Research Trajectory: 1. Gender and technology - a historical perspective 2. The ethical-political perspective 3. Pathways to a gendered and intersectional perspective Part II. Gender and Technology at the Workplace: 4. Women and machines in the factory 5. Office automation and the redesign of work 6. Beyond the office - from data work to the platform economy 7. AI-based technologies - new forms of invisibility and the 'ironies of automation' 8. The computerization of care work 9. The gendering of computer work Part III. Gender and Design: 10. Revisiting the ethical-political perspective in technology design 11. Contextualizing women's work 12. Pathways to gender equality in design Postscript References Index.
Introduction Part I. Gender and Technology - A Research Trajectory: 1. Gender and technology - a historical perspective 2. The ethical-political perspective 3. Pathways to a gendered and intersectional perspective Part II. Gender and Technology at the Workplace: 4. Women and machines in the factory 5. Office automation and the redesign of work 6. Beyond the office - from data work to the platform economy 7. AI-based technologies - new forms of invisibility and the 'ironies of automation' 8. The computerization of care work 9. The gendering of computer work Part III. Gender and Design: 10. Revisiting the ethical-political perspective in technology design 11. Contextualizing women's work 12. Pathways to gender equality in design Postscript References Index.
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