The gender politics of ICT / edited by Jacqueline Archibald [and others].

"Women into Computing"--Cover.

"Selection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference of Women into Computing at the University of Greenwich, London, in July 2005"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Conference programme and organising committees -- [pt. 1]. Invited papers -- 1. Why are women still so few in IT? : understanding the persistent under-representation of women in the IT professions / Juliet Webster -- 2. Becoming and belonging : gendered processes in engineering / Wendy Faulkner -- 3. Bridging the boardroom 'divide' : a personal view / Lesley Ottery -- 4. Intelligent ambience between Heaven and Hell : a salvation? / Cecile K.M. Crutzen -- [pt. 2]. Gender politics -- 5. An initial investigation of students' self-construction of pedagogical agents / Katherine R.B. Greysen -- 6. Some ideas on constitutive ethics for information and communication technologies / Frances Grundy -- 7. Gender mainstreaming in FP6 : experiences from an IST project / Rosa Michaelson -- 8. Understandings of gender and competence in ICT / Johanna Sefyrin -- 9. Implementation of large scale software applications : possibilities for end-user participation / Linda Stepulevage, Miriam Mukasa -- 10. 'Social' robots & 'emotional' software agents : gendering processes and de-gendering strategies for 'technologies in the making' / Jutta Weber, Corinna Bath -- 11. New Europe - new attitudes? : some initial findings on women in computing in the Czech Republic / Eva Turner --

[pt. 3]. Communications : exploiting technology -- 12. A tool but not a medium : practical use of the Internet in the women's movement / Tanja Carstensen, Gabriele Winker -- 13. Blogging for life : the role of the cyberconduit in everyday narratives, cyberfeminism, and global social change / Tess Pierce -- 17. 'I know that's not the topic we're on, but it is all linked isn't it'? : gender and interaction in Email list cooperation / Margit Pohl, Greg Michaelson -- 15. Internet research from a gender perspective : searching for differentiated use patterns / Gabriele Winker -- [pt. 4]. Education : context and content -- 16. Gender differentials in the adoption and use of information and communications technologies by lecturers in Nigerian universities / Rosemary O. Agbonlahor -- 17. Invitation to dialogue : feminist research meets compute science / Christina Björkman -- 18. Women's pleasure in computing / Hilde Corneliussen -- 19. Women's training revisited : developing new learning pathways for women IT technicians using a holistic approach / Debbie Ellen, Clem Herman -- 20. Learning in groups : gender impacts in E-learning / Sigrid Schmitz, Ruth Messmer --

[pt. 5]. Employment -- 21. 'You don't have to be male to work here, but it helps!' - gender and the IT labour market / Alison Adam, Marie Griffiths, Claire Keogh, Karenza Moore, Helen Richardson, Angela Tattersall -- 22. Networking and career advancement strategies for women : a study of the effects of networking and mentoring on ICT careers for women / Frances S. Grodzinsky, Andra Gumbus -- 23. The potential of adaptive collaborative work : a proposal for a new working style for Japanese women / Mayumi Hori, Masakazu Ohashi.

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