Apologies for cross-posting. Please find details below of the above
seminar.
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CENTRE FOR SOCIAL & POLICY RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE
ESRC SEMINAR SERIES: EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES ON-LINE: THE IMPACT OF GENDER
RELATIONS ON THE DESIGN AND USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
SEMINAR 1
TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEISURE AND PLEASURE
10.30 am – 4 pm, Tuesday 14 September 1999
Innovation Centre Board Room
University of Teesside
Speakers
Nina Wakeford, University of Surrey : Machining Desires: new feminist
theories for the study of technologies
Karen Littleton and Simeon Yates, Open University, Understanding Computer
Game Cultures: A Situated Approach
Eileen Green, University of Teesside, Gendered Use of Technologies in the
Household
Helen Richardson, University of Salford : Popping to the Virtual Shop
– gender and the use of ICT’s in home shopping
The total number of places for this seminar is 30 and the seminar
itself, with refreshments, is free. In order to spread our limited
resources as fairly as possible we would be grateful of participants
who can obtain travel funding from their institutions or elsewhere
would do this. We are able to fund travel costs of some participants
(especially postgraduate students). We will do this on a first come
first served basis. If you require help with travel costs please
indicate this in your reply.
A VR Opportunity: a visit to the Hemispherium in the Innovation
Centre will take place after the seminar so participants will be able
to take a Virtual Reality trip.
Requests for booking forms to Barbara Cox, Centre for Social & Policy
Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Teesside,
Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, Tel: 01642 342346. Email [log in to unmask]
Closing date for return of booking forms is 30 July 1999.
Prof Eileen Green
Director, Centre for Social and Policy Research
University of Teesside
MIDDLESBROUGH TS1 3BA
Tel 01642 342346
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