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ECSCW 09 Workshop: Considering Gender in ECSCW
Location: ECSCW 2009 in Vienna
Date: 8 September 2009
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jen/GenderWorkshop.html
Workshop overview:
In light of an increasing interest in gender and technology, there is a need to discuss how these relate to CSCW. By organizing this one day workshop we hope to encourage CSCW research in this area and promote better design that takes into account gender differences.
This workshop looks at the roll of gender within ECSCW. This workshop will discuss a number of approaches to gender and technology, some which are known to the existing ECSCW community interested in gender, as well as, some new approaches. We will discuss the implications of Liberal Feminism, Gender Positionality, and Lived Body Experience, amongst other theoretical approaches to gender. This workshop will provide a forum for discussing both gender as it is currently formulated within the ECSCW literature, as well as, new aspects of gender theory that might be pulled from the gender studies, and feminist science and technology studies community to strengthen ECSCW's treatment of gender.
Issues of discussion during the workshop includes:
. Understanding the current literature within ECSCW on gender and related theory, including the ethnomethodological perspective.
. Discus perspectives on gender found in the larger HCI community including Liberal Feminism and experimental studies of gender.
. Bring in new perspectives of gender from outside ECSCW from the Gender Studies and the Feminist Science and Technologies Studies community, these include but are not limited to:
o Alcoff's Gender Positionality (1988)
o Cockburn's notion of Technology as Masculine Culture (1992)
o Young's Lived Body Experience (2005)
o Haraway's Cyborg Feminsm (2007)
o Others as brought forward by attendees, this is encouraged!
. Pulling these theories together and discussing how ECSCW should treat gender going forward.
Who should submit and attend:
This full-day workshop will be of interest to researchers whose interest lie in gender and technology from both inside and outside the larger CSCW community. Participation in the workshop requires the submission of a short position paper, however speculative papers from young researchers, or those who have not previously considered how gender could apply to their work are encouraged!
Because we want participants who are interested in gender, but might not have had a lot of opportunity to formalize their views we will not be making everyone present their position papers. Instead, we will be asking a subset of attendees to present brief presentations on different theoretical frameworks on gender. In doing so we hope to establish common ground, and allow participants with a range of backgrounds to participate.
Each position paper should address the topic of gender and technology and how it should apply to CSCW.
The workshop will be open to a maximum of 20 participants.
Dissemination:
Position papers and workshop outputs will be made available on the website. The primary goal of this workshop is to promote conversation on gender vis-à-vis CSCW and to build a community that critically reflects on these issues in light of relevant theory. In doing so the hope is that we can then encourage a body of research that soberly reflects on gender and its role in design. Ideally, a special issue surrounding gender comparing and contrasting these varied perspectives would be a fruitful starting point.
Submissions:
. To participate please send a 2-4 page position paper to the organizers ([log in to unmask]) by the 27th June 2009.
. Acceptance notifications will be sent by 6th July 2009
. Papers should be in the ECSCW format: http://www.ecscw09.org/author.html
Organizers:
. Dr. Jennifer A. Rode, University College London, Interaction Center
. Professor Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University, Computer Science
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