hi Stephanie, There's also the classic *Gender on the line* by Lana Rakow (1992), which looks specifically at the gendering of the telephone. In addition to the other excellent suggestions, I'd also point you to work by Donna Haraway, and some of the chapters in a book I co-edited with Susanna Paasonen- Women and everyday uses of the Internet. Cheers, Mia On 7/19/07, Tuszynski, Stephanie <stuszyn@utnet.utoledo.edu> wrote:

Hi everyone -

I was hoping some people could suggest some sources on the subject of gendering technology? I'm thinking in particular of research that looked at things like "women use the phone to gossip while men use it for business" and so forth.

References that talk about using the Internet for "information gathering" versus social activity would also be helpful.

Thanks

Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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you can check my blog for my studies as I have been reading in the area of gender and computing as an undergrad for a coupe of years. http://notebook.webpagex.org One more experimental psychological work on gender is Copper, Joel, & Weaver D, Kimberlee. Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erbaum, 2003). One more survey type work on computer science students is Margolis, Jane & Fisher Allan. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT, 2001) These are two books that look specifically at Wired Magazine Pauline Borsook's, Cyberselfish (New York: Public Affairs, 2000). This book enlightened me to the dangers of Wired magazine and clarified some of my own thoughts as a Wired reader. This past few months I have been reading Stewart Millar, Melanie. Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules The Wired World (Toronto, Ont.: Second Story, 1998). This book builds on the sexist reality of Wired magazine. I have not read the whole book yet but am rereading parts of it with interest. this is interesting too from my blog a bit of a summary Seiter, Ellen. The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment, and Mis-Education (New York: Peter Lang, 2005). This book covered a professor's teaching of an elementary classroom course on media and journalism to two school's one a lower class school with an ethnic population. She looked at the children's love of wrestling and neopets. She found that the gender gap in computing disappears when one considers working class non-white males and that the privledged males in computing are white middle class men. also go right back to Donna Haraway's early work in the 1980's. Haraway, Donna. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s in Haraway, Donna. The Haraway Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004). a prof at my former school covered feminsm and cyborgs in her masters Hamilton, Sheryl N. Intimate Couplings: A Feminist Interrogation of the Cyborg (M.A. Thesis, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communications, 1995) [unpublished]. you might read Consalvo, Mia, & Passonen Susanna. eds. Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity (New York:, Peter Lang 2002). Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. On 19-Jul-07, at 2:16 PM, Tuszynski, Stephanie wrote:

Hi everyone -

I was hoping some people could suggest some sources on the subject of gendering technology? I'm thinking in particular of research that looked at things like "women use the phone to gossip while men use it for business" and so forth.

References that talk about using the Internet for "information gathering" versus social activity would also be helpful.

Thanks

Stephanie Tuszynski Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Film University of Toledo

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