Gender Designs IT Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zorn, Isabel (Editor), Maass, Susanne (Editor), Rommes, Els (Editor), Schirmer, Carola (Editor), Schelhowe, Heidi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Gender Studies.; Sociology, general.

How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational...