Wednesday 4 May at 1 pm. in room 2A08 (ITU)
Hilde G. Corneliussen will present her forthcoming book, Gender-Technology Relations: Exploring Stability and Change (Palgrave Macmillan, Autumn 2011).
Norway scores high on international gender equality measures, but similar to the trend found in other western countries, also in Norway the number of women in computing is low. It has often been claimed that ‘nothing has changed’ for women in computing, ‘despite three decades of efforts to improve things’. Is it true that ‘nothing has changed’, or are there other ways of seeing the situation? Through a varied empirical material Corneliussen explores how perceptions of gender-technology relations have developed since the early 1980s until today.
Hilde G. Corneliussen is associate professor in Digital Culture at Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen. Her research interests include gender and technology, computer history, computer education and computer games. She is co-editor of Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft® Reader (MIT Press, 2008).
Corneliussen is visiting ITU as part of the Nordic Digital Culture Network for student and faculty exchange between Digital Culture programs in the Nordic countries.
http://www.nordicdigitalculture.net/
