Discourses and Cracks : A Case Study of Information Technology and Writing Women in a Regional Context
| Document type: | Bookchapters |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Pirjo Elovaara, Annelie Ekelin |
| Title: | Discourses and Cracks : A Case Study of Information Technology and Writing Women in a Regional Context |
| Book: | Women, Work and Computerization : Charting a Course to the Future |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Pagination: | pp. 199-207 |
| Editor: | Ellen Balka & Richard Smith |
| ISBN: | 0-7923-7864-4 |
| Publisher: | Kluwer Academic Publilshers |
| City: | Boston & Dordrecht & Lonfon |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | Department of Human Work Science, Media Technology and Humanities (Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap, medieteknik och humaniora) Department of Human Work Science, Media Technology and Humanities, Box 520, 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.iar.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | pirjo.elovaara@bth.se, annelie.ekelin@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses information technology as political and practical discourse. The repetitive discursive model can be distinguished in global, regional and local contexts and contains an optimistic belief in technology as an independent power that automatically furthers democratic development. The second part of the paper presents empirical material and experiences from the ´Women Writing on the Net´ project. The aim was to build up a virtual space for women and use writing as aim, tool and method. This created a more complex understanding of the values of the predominant IT discourses and revealed the ´cracks´ and possibilities for feminist definitions of these values. |
| Subject: | Technoscience Studies\General |
| Keywords: | Information technology, IT, politics, democracy, project, feminism |
