Women, Men and Programming : Knowledge, Metaphors and Masculinity

Inger Boivie (Guide Konsult AB, Sweden)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5.ch001

Source title: Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts

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Boivie, Inger. "Women, Men and Programming : Knowledge, Metaphors and Masculinity." Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts. IGI Global, 2010. 1-24. Web. 21 May. 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5.ch001

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Boivie, I. (2010). Women, Men and Programming : Knowledge, Metaphors and Masculinity. In S. Booth, S. Goodman, & G. Kirkup (Eds.), Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts (pp. 1-24). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5.ch001

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Boivie, Inger. "Women, Men and Programming : Knowledge, Metaphors and Masculinity." In Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts, ed. Shirley Booth, Sara Goodman and Gill Kirkup, 1-24 (2010), accessed May 21, 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5.ch001

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This chapter explores aspects of the gendering of computer science and IT, related to epistemological issues of what computing is and what type of knowledge counts. The c is based upon an interview study of how students and professionals in the field of computer science, perceive programming in a broad sense. Much of the earlier research on the under-representation of women in IT education and the IT industry has tended to focus on factors and aspects where women and men differ in their relation to IT and computers. Inspired by feminist research, it is suggested that developing an understanding of the problem of gender and IT requires a more complex analysis than a dualistic focus on differences between men and women. This chapter analyzes interviews with a range of Swedish male and female students and professionals from the field, in relation to gender with respect to metaphors of programming, inclusion and exclusion, the notion of beautiful code, understandings of masculinity and programming, and the idea of dedication.

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Women, Men and Programming : Knowledge, Metaphors and Masculinity (pages 1-24)

Inger Boivie (Guide Konsult AB, Sweden)

This chapter explores aspects of the gendering of computer science and IT, related to epistemological issues of what computing is and what type of knowledge counts.... Sample PDF | More details...

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New Gender Relations in the Transforming IT-Industry of Malaysia (pages 25-47)

Ulf Mellström (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)

This chapter investigates how and why computer science in Malaysia is dominated by women. Drawing on recent critical interventions in gender and technology studies t... Sample PDF | More details...

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Women in Computer Science in Afghanistan (pages 48-64)

Eva Maria Hoffmann (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)

In Afghanistan, the development of information technology (IT) as an industry and an educational field is still quite young, but this provides the country with an op... Sample PDF | More details...

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"For me it doesn't matter where I put my information": Enactments of Agency, Mutual Learning, and Gender in IT Design (pages 65-82)

Johanna Sefyrin (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)

In information technology (IT) design it is essential to develop rich and nuanced understandings of messy design realities. In this chapter Karen Barad’s agential re... Sample PDF | More details...

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Attaching People and Technology: Between E and Government (pages 83-98)

Christina Mörtberg (University of Umeå, Sweden and University of Oslo, Norway), Pirjo Elovaara (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

The Swedish public sector is involved in an overwhelming change process aiming towards creating a good-service society based on information technology. Rationalisati... Sample PDF | More details...

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Against All Odds, from All-Girls Schools to All-Boys Workplaces: Women’s Unsuspecting Trajectory Into the UK ICT Sector (pages 99-112)

Marie Griffiths (University of Salford, UK), Helen Richardson (University of Salford, UK)

The trend for women to be severely under-represented in the UK ICT (information and communication technology) sector persists. Girls continue, year in year out, to e... Sample PDF | More details...

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Challenging Gender Stereotypes Using Virtual Pedagogical Characters (pages 113-132)

Agneta Gulz (Lund University, Sweden), Magnus Haake (Lund University, Sweden)

This chapter explores motivational and cognitive effects of more neutral or androgynous-looking versus more feminine-looking and masculine-looking virtual characters... Sample PDF | More details...

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Absent Women: Research on Gender Relations in IT Education Mediated by Swedish Newspapers (pages 133-149)

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This chapter presents a study on the use of research based information on gender and IT education disseminated by Swedish newspapers between 1994 and 2004. The predo... Sample PDF | More details...

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Heteronormativity Revisited: Adolescents’ Educational Choices, Sexuality and Soaps (pages 150-172)

Els Rommes (Radboud University, TheNetherlands)

The aim of this chapter is to explore to what extent heteronormativity, the norm that man and woman are attracted to each other because of their presumed difference... Sample PDF | More details...

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Approaching Higher Education: A Life-World Story of Home-Places, Work-Places and Learn-Places (pages 173-191)

Shirley Booth (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Eva Wigforss (University of Gothenburg, Sweden.)

The chapter tells of two women with low educational qualifications who embark on a journey into higher education by taking a distance course to introduce them to and... Sample PDF | More details...

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Gendered Distance Education Spaces: “Keeping Women in Place”? (pages 192-208)

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Computer Courses in Adult Education in a Gender Perspective (pages 209-230)

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Gendered Knowledge Production in Universities in a Web 2.0 World (pages 231-243)

Gill Kirkup (Open University, UK)

This chapter examines the access women have had historically to engage in knowledge production as university scholars or students. It discusses the changing nature o... Sample PDF | More details...

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Queen Bees, Workers and Drones : Gender Performance in Virtual Learning Groups (pages 244-254)

Gwyneth Hughes (Institute of Education, London)

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Towards a Feminist Manifesto for e-Learning: Principles to Inform Practices* (pages 255-274)

Gill Kirkup (Open University, UK), Sigrid Schmitz (University of Freiburg, Germany), Erna Kotkamp (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Els Rommes (Radboud University, Netherlands), Aino-Maija Hiltunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

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