Gender and Technology at Work: From Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design - Hardcover

Balka, Ellen; Wagner, Ina; Weibert, Anne; Wulf, Volker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009243713 ISBN 13: 9781009243711

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Insights about how gender and technology interact at work framed from an ethical-political standpoint, aimed at achieving design justice.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Ina Wagner is affiliated to the University of Siegen, Germany after retiring as professor at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna. A leader in the field of work and technology, her research focusses on work practices and the design of supporting technologies. She has published on computers in hospitals and in architectural planning, feminist perspectives in science and technology, and ethical and political aspects of ICT. She recently coauthored the books 'Future-proofing: Making practice-based IT design sustainable' and 'L'urbanism informel. Au-delà du droit à la ville', and received the Woman's Prize of the City of Vienna and Gabriele Possanner Staatspreis.

Anne Weibert is a research associate at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen. She has conducted participatory design projects in socially and culturally diverse settings, working with children and adults, and vulnerable populations including refugees. Her research is focused on computer-based collaborative project work and inherent processes of technology appropriation and media literacy, intercultural learning, and community-building. She is a co-author of 'Future-proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable'. Anne Weibert has been awarded the 'Förderpreis des Augsburger Wissenschaftspreises für Interkulturelle Studien' and the 'Rolf H. Brunswig-Promotionspreis' at the University of Siegen.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1009243713
• ISBN 13: 9781009243711
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388
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