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Digital dead end : fighting for social justice in the Information Age
Argues against the common thinking that technology is a panacea that will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. Explores the realities of the information age which are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families.
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Digital Dead End
The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression.But despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering \"technology for people,\" popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement.
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Gender-technology relations : exploring stability and change
\"Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Technology and the Gendering of Music Education
Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom where composition is often synonymous with the music technology suite. The use of computers and associated compositional software in music education is frequently decontextualized from cultural and social relationships, thereby ignoring the fact that new technologies are used and developed within existing social spaces that are always already delineated along gender lines. Armstrong suggests these gender-technology relations have a profound effect on the ways adolescents compose music as well as how gendered identities in the technologized music classroom are constructed. Drawing together perspectives from the sociology of science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of music, Armstrong examines the gendered processes and practices that contribute to how students learn about technology, the repertoire of teacher and student talk, its effect on student confidence and the issue of male control of technological knowledge. Even though girls and female teachers have technological knowledge and skill, the continuing material and symbolic associations of technology with men and masculinity contribute to the perception of women as less able and less interested in all things technological. In light of the fact that music technology is now central to many music-making practices across all sectors of education from primary, secondary through to higher education, this book provides a timely critical analysis that powerfully demonstrates why the relationship between gender and music technology should remain an important empirical consideration.
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Gender in STEM education in the Arab Gulf Countries
This book explores the critical issues in gender and STEM education in the Arabian Gulf, written within a context of educational systems developing rapidly over recent decades. With the ever-growing need for a highly skilled, gender-inclusive STEM workforce, the issues raised in this book are more topical than ever. It presents chapters from various sectors such as childrens perceptions of science, scientists and their work, adolescent and university years by studying large-scale secondary data variations across countries in the region and finally presenting work relating to gender in STEM education. The book closes with a chapter on factors of success in female leaders STEM career journeys. It offers recommendations for both policy and practices in gender equity in the STEM workplace, based on their experiences. This book is written in a highly accessible yet academic manner. It is an essential resource for a wide-ranging audience interested in the complex relationships between gender and STEM.
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Tecnologías en el siglo XXI
El presente libro resulta un ejercicio de reflexión delicado, pero sin duda necesario. A lo largo de sus páginas, trata diferentes temas de gran actualidad, centrándose sobre los cambios que estamos viviendo en el siglo XXI. Resulta extremadamente interesante el enfoque del texto: por un parte se introducen temas variados, con una visión transversal; y por otra, tras profundizar en los mismos, se reflexiona sobre su situación, sus desaciertos y su oportunidad de cambio desde una perspectiva de género. Este último aspecto representa el denominador común de la obra colectiva. El libro pone de manifiesto la persistencia de las diferencias de género y la resistencia de la discriminación. Las violencias contra las mujeres son múltiples y complejas: su “fortaleza\" reside tanto en el imaginario como en el lenguaje que predomina en la sociedad...
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Geschlecht und Gemütlichkeit
Die Reihe präsentiert Beiträge der qualitativen Sozialforschung, die empirisch anspruchsvolle Untersuchungen mit einem Interesse an soziologischer Theorie verbinden. Sie versammelt originelle Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, zur Interaktions- und Organisationsanalyse und zur Sprach- und Kultursoziologie, in denen sich weltoffenes Forschen, methodische Reflektion und analytische Arbeit wechselseitig verschränken.
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