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Instructors: Prof. Ph.D. Julianne Nyhan
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of History
Displayed in timetable as:
02-04-0100-vl
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Official Course Description:
This course will ask: how has gender been substantively intertwined with information technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? How has this impacted not only the historiography of the history of computing but also definitions of expertise, economies of esteem and practices of attribution in computing and information work? And what does this longer history gender and computing have to do with the many invisible workers who today perform the digital labour that is crucial to our current digital platforms yet tends to be overlooked? Surveying theoretical literature from Gender Studies and Feminist Technology Studies, moving over situated case studies of feminized labour contributed to electomechanical, general-purpose electronic computers and personal computer settings, and examining primary sources including oral histories, textual documentation and photographic records, this course will explore fundamental questions about how technology can be made in the interests of some individuals and against the interests of others
This course is examined by: a source-based presentation (25%); a poster presentation (25%), and an in-class exam (50%)
Online Offerings:
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