Maria João Silva
Gender (in)Visibility in the ICT
Gender and Technology co-construction
It is
possible to
find a
significant
and
diversified
set of voices
that claims:
that technology is shaped by gender and gender by technology;
that there is room for differences between women … and between men. for an approach that sees both technology and gender as “malleable”;
Gender (in)Visibility in ICT Interfaces:
Analysis of Examples
Google Earth: when gender invisibility allows diversity
(SchoolSenses@Internet Project)
Diversifying visible representations in software
• To include gender criteria in software quality assessment is necessary, but
not sufficient.
• ICT Design Methodologies are fundamental issues to diversity inclusion
• Undetermined Design (Justine Cassell);
• Participatory Design with inclusive participation (sex/gender,
age, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability , sexual
orientation…)
• Methodologies of use: Kids as Creators of Multisensory Information
Planning and monitoring to Diversity Inclusion
There is a need to integrate gender analysis in ICT policy and in ICT
projects, in order to promote the use of ICT for all (Marcelle, Gillian).
It is important to develop specific gender indicators to measure the
progress of ICT (gender) inclusion process (UN World Summit on the
Information Society).
Bibliography
• Cassell, Justine. (2002). Genderizing HCI. In J. Jacko and A. Sears (eds.), The Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence and Erlbaum”, pp.402-411.
•Cassell, Justine & Jenkins, Henry (1998). In Cassell, Justine & Jenkins, Henry (eds.) From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: gender and computer games. MIT Press.
•Gomes, C. A., Silva, M. J., Brigas, C., Pereira, I., e Marcelino, M. J. (2006). SCHOOLSENSES@INTERNET: Criação de Informação GeoReferenciada Multissensorial com Crianças e Professores. Proc. of VIII Congresso Iberoamericano de Informática Educativa.
• Landström, Catharina (2007). Queering feminist technology studies, Feminist Theory, 8 (7).
• Lie, Merete (2003). He, She and It Revisited: New Perspectives on Gender in the Information Society. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.
• Marcelle, Gillian (2004). Thinking BIG to Accelerate Gender Equality and Transformation in the ICTs Arena, Gender Technology and Development, 8 (31).
• Silva, M.aria João & Ferreira, Eduarda (2007). Promoção da igualdade de género em recursos educativos informatizados: reflexão sobre alguns exemplos. In Cadernos Sacausef. Lisboa: CRIE, Ministério da Educação. [no prelo]
• World Summit on the Information Society (2003). Geneva Plan of Action. First Phase of the WSIS (10-12 December 2003, Geneva). WSIS-03/GENEVA/DOC/0005.
Thank you
Gender and Technology co-construction
Gender and Technology co-construction
Maria João Silva, ESE Porto
Broaden the range of available options in order to open up new space
for a broader range of experiences and identities for both girls and boys
(Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins)
Instead of ghettoizing girls as a population that needs ‘special help’ in
their relation to technology, we should encourage boys and girls to
express aspects of self-identity that transcend stereotyped gender
categories (Justine Cassell)
In this activity, all children were
able to find their homes, the
nearest recycling point. They
put them on the map, together
with multisensory messages.
to personalize GE as
their own learning
environment.
Players can use any
character as a positive and
non-stereotyped model.
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