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Carol MacKeogh & Paschal Preston (eds) (2004)
Strategies for Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society
Vol. II: Experiences from private and voluntary sector initiatives
Trondheim, Norway: NTNU Press [ISSN: 0802-3581]
This book addresses the role of private and voluntary sectors' ‘inclusion’ initiatives related to women in the production and use of digital technologies and new media. The book is based on research conducted by the multi-country SIGIS project (‘Strategies for Inclusion and Gender in the European Information Society’). Linking research centres in 6 EU member states and conducted between 2001-2004, this is one of the largest ever studies focused on gender and technology issues. This book provides a wealth of empirical studies examining gender aspects of in/exclusion processes and other features of the changing role of women in the production and consumption/use of digital technologies and new media in Europe.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Case studies of private efforts to include women in ICT Paschal Preston and Carol MacKeogh
Chapter 2. The Gathering. Computer parties as means for gender inclusion Hege Nordli
Chapter 3. Strategies of inclusion in three web-based magazines: For ‘women’, for ‘the advanced’ and for ‘the home user’ Kristin Hestflått
Chapter 4. The gender game. A study of Norwegian computer game designers Helen Jøsok Gansmo, Hege Nordli and Knut H. Sørensen
Chapter 5. Women on the web, Designer case Irma van Slooten and Els Rommes
Chapter 6. The Libelle website: A case study on the website of the Dutch women’s magazine Libelle Irma van Slooten
Chapter 7. Kidcom designer case Els Rommes, Nelly Oudshoorn and Marcelle Stienstra
Chapter 8. IT beat: Bringing pop and glam to IT Lisa Pitt
Chapter 9. New media, old world: The Untold story Lisa Pitt
Chapter 10. Boys and girls stay in to play. Creating inclusive and exclusive computer entertainment for children James Stewart
Chapter 11. The information society at the service of tradition Leopoldina Fortunati
Chapter 12. Women and the new economy. The Work Up case study Leopoldina Fortunati
Chapter 13. From the GSM to the UNMTS: Is it a path towards women? Leopoldina Fortunati and Anna Maria Manganelli
Chapter 14. Women in technology international (WITI) Carol MacKeogh
Chapter 15. eVenos.com: Creating a space for women on the web Carol MacKeogh
Chapter 16. Win win situation. Human resources perspective on gender in the lCT workforce Carol MacKeogh
Other Books by Paschal Preston :
‘Making the News : Journalism and News Cultures in Europe’ (2009) Routledge. More information
‘Reshaping Communications : Technology, Information and Social Change’
(2001)
London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
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‘The Carrier Wave : New Information Technology & the Geography of Innovation’
(1988)
with Peter Hall. London: Unwin Hyman.
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‘Democracy and Communication in the New Europe : Change and Continuity
in East and West’ (1995)
with Farrel Corcoran (eds).
Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press Inc.
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