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Subject: Gender & ICT - Strategies of Inclusion







	CALL FOR PAPERS

	Symposium Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion

	

	Research on the inter-relations between Gender and Information &

	Communication Technologies is  dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and

	creative.

	In January 2003 the symposium 'Gender and ICT: Where are we at' was held

	in

	Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We aim to pursue  the  discussions begun

	there

	and therefore we are pleased to announce the symposium entitled:

	Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion

	

	This symposium aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different

	disciplines and research schools that are familiar with ICT  and gender

	studies, women's studies or feminist studies.

	The symposium will be held in Brussels on 20 January 2004.

	

	We invite abstracts on the following themes :

	- Women, Work and Computerization

	- Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life

	- Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education

	- Gendering Technology: Structure and Design

	

	

	Examples of possible paper sections in the different themes:

	

	"       Women, Work and Computerization

	

	Job profiles and the influence of ICT, the impact of ICT skills in the

	job

	function classifications, influence of ICT on work organisation,

	computerization of work and surveillance, portrayal of ICT (functions),

	etc.

	

	"       Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life

	

	Possession and use of ICT, domestication, ICT-literacy, user and skill

	divide, consequences of use of ICT in the organisation of daily work and

	private life, ICT and family life, privacy and ethics, wearables and

	biometrics, on-line activities, interaction, Participation and

	democracy,

	etc.

	

	

	

	

	"       Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education

	

	Gender differences in ICT-use in school contexts

	Computer attitudes, learning styles, informatics curriculum, e-learning,

	feminist pedagogies, ICT and lifelong learning, etc.

	

	"       Gendering Technology: Structure and Design

	

	Women designing and shaping contents and systems of the new

	technologies,

	social shaping of technology, production of ICT, feminist critiques of

	computing, gender scripts of technology, participatory design,

	user-friendlessness, adaptivity, etc.

	

	The deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is November 15.

	The final programme will be available by December 15.

	The working language of the symposium will be English.

	Abstracts may be submitted to: Laurence Claeys or Sarah Meersman at:

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	Programme Committee: Els Rommes, Sally Wyatt, Anne-Catherine Devolder,

	Magda Michielsens and Laurence Claeys

	

	The symposium is a joint initiative of the Policy Research Centre on

	Equal

	Opportunities (Belgium) and the European SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion:

	Gender in the Information Society) network. It is part of Digitales and

	is

	supported by the. Dutch Association for Gender and Technology (The

	Netherlands). During the symposium, members of SIGIS will present their

	final research reports.

	

	Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities :

	http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be

	(website only in Dutch)

	Dutch Gender and Technology Association:

	http://www.indexsociety.nl/genderictsymposium/aboutvgt.htm

	Digitales: http://www.digitales-online.org

	SIGIS (Strategies of  Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society):

	http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/

	

	Website of the conference:

	http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be/genderandict

	[still under construction].