The Art and Science of Everything

Formerly thoughts on gender and technology, I'm expanding this as a place to just generally geek out on gender, technology, design, cognition, perception, and culture. The title should not be considered hubris, but instead enthusiasm.

Thursday, January 15, 2004

I should have found this and included it in my thesis.

"Researchers working in this area have argued that much of the early
work concerned with human-computer interaction failed to develop a
critical assessment of the technology that would lead researchers to
study the ways that social context, power relations and social bias may
affect the actual systems that are created.

To counter these difficulties, Suchman and Jordan [16] stress the
importance of demystifying technology and legitimating women's knowledge
in the system development process. They argue that this will require a
dramatic shift in how we view the knowledge and skills that go into
system development. Such a shift must incorporate a sophisticated
understanding of the social world into the system development process."

[[failed to develop a critical assessment of the technology that would
lead researchers to study the ways that social context, power relations
and social bias may affect the actual systems that are created]] - this
is exactly the question I'm interested in!

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