Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

Kirk, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1599047861 ISBN 13: 9781599047867

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2008

Synopsis

The exponential growth of technology and concurrent information revolution is creating a tremendous cultural shift on a global scale. However, the direction of that shift is being determined by those privileged few who participate. Women and people of color remain underrepresented as developers, users and beneficiaries of technology. Using gender as a starting point, Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership offers an interdisciplinary, social systems perspective on how shifting from a dominator social system towards a partnership system--as reflected in four primary social institutions (communication, media, education, and business)--might help us move beyond the simplistic notion of access to information technology towards partnership in co-creating a real digital revolution worldwide. This significant, compelling title defines core roots of the problem while proposing solutions in which we can all participate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599047861
• ISBN 13: 9781599047867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311