[Air-L] New book out: 'Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society'

[Els Rommes]

Knut H. Sørensen, Wendy Faulkner and Els Rommes 'Technologies of 
Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society'
see: http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/en/node/1744

The Information Society is an evolving project, with new 'ensembles' of 
social practices and of information and communication technologies 
(ICTs) emerging all the time. But not everyone is equally included in 
this project. Breaking new ground with its focus on inclusion, and 
drawing on an extensive body of European research, Technologies of 
Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society analyses a range of 
strategies which succeeded in attracting more women and girls as users 
or designers of ICTs. This reveals a set of underlying dynamics -- what 
the authors call technologies of inclusion -- by which different 
strategies work. It also highlights new gender-ICT ensembles which 
challenge long-held notions of technology as a masculine domain.

Professor Ulf Mellström, Centre for gender research, University of 
Karlstad wrote about this book:
"This book is a must, for scholars interested in shifting 
gender-technology relations and for practitioners interested in 
effective digital inclusion. Indeed, for anyone interested in the 
evolving project of the Information Society. This timely and important 
volume summarises much of the contemporary scholarly discussions within 
gender and technology studies. The uniqueness of the book is due to its 
empirical richness in combination with cutting edge theoretical 
orientation. As this group of experienced scholars have been able to 
cross-fertilise in-depth case studies with a long history of theoretical 
development in GTS, they are able to produce what must be counted as the 
most inclusive standard scholarly

reference for many years to come."