Ambient Intelligence, between Heaven and Hell. A Transformative Critical Room?

Crutzen, Cecile K. M.

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“…The project of “managed care”, possible thanks to the employment of AmI applications, is appealing particularly in the face of dynamic demographic changes in Europe and ageing populations. Nevertheless, the use of technology in caregiving may bring serious ethical questions of a universal nature, regardless of gender, such as “the risk of dehumanisation and depersonalisation by progressively disembodying patients” (Crutzen, 2007, p. 68).…”

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“…Apart from practical applications of ICTs in domestic environment, scholars also point at gender inequalities in the process of ICT design. Crutzen (2007) pays special attention to AmI devices, which are more and more often utilized by women in practice, but which are designed exclusively by men. For her:[…] in AmI the symbolic meaning of use and design is reconstructed as an opposition in which “design” is active and a virtuoso activity and “use” is passive and not creative (2007, p. 74).…”

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“…In this aspect gender power relations are unsettled. Deconstruction of the use‐design opposition is considered to be “the beginning of an articulation of the meaning of diversity in the discourses of AmI: diversity in use, in design and in the interaction between use and design” (Crutzen, 2007, p. 71). The problem of insufficient engagement of women in the process of technology design is applicable to all ICTs and observable in the majority of European countries (Women and ICT Status Report 2009, 2010).…”

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Gender issues in information and communication technologies (ICTs)

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Zapędowska-Kling

2012

J of Inf, Com & Eth in Society

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to present some of the findings (which were reported on more extensively in earlier work) regarding the visibility of gender issues in the literature on selected information and communication technologies (ICTs) with a view to make predictions about potential ethical issues that the application of these ICTs may bring about in the future. This paper is part of the larger research project called ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies), a collaborative project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. Design/methodology/approach -On the basis of the analysis of around 100 published sources, which dealt with various aspects of selected ICTs, conclusions have been drawn regarding gender issues and concerns that the applications of these ICTs may cause. The authors' analysis is theoretically informed by critical discourse analysis (CDA) which assumes that texts, both written and spoken, as well as other forms of symbolic representations, are indicative of social practices. Of particular methodological relevance was the survey of methods of text and discourse analysis presented in Titscher et al. and especially the application of keyword search as a way to measure the prominence of each investigated method. This approach to literature surveying proved very useful in selecting analytic material: only those published sources on the selected four ICTs have been included in the survey, for which the analysis of keywords, abstracts and indexes of terms indicated authors' interest in gender issues. Findings -First, ICTs such as affective computing, ambient intelligence, and artificial intelligence, have been found to have the potential of positively affecting gender power relations and thus positively affecting gender balance in the areas of labour market related to ICT across EU countries and worldwide. Second, more research on the relationship between gender and ICT design, application and representation is needed, so as to enhance a better understanding of ethical issues resulting from unequal participation of women and men in all aspects of ICT production and implementation, which in itself is an ethical dilemma with which both the ICT business and legislators have to grapple. Originality/value -The paper offers insight into the relationship between the level of attention devoted to particular ICTs by...

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Section: Ambient Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ambient Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…How this works at the heart of technology itself is more difficult to elaborate. An early examination was performed in Green et al (1993), and in Crutzen (2007), who have shown how gender hierarchies are installed in software systems through modelling methods, such as object oriented analysis and design. Haubner et al (2009) pointed out coercions in the students' self-assessment of their skills in relation to usage of e-learning systems and technology.…”

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De-Gendering Neuro-Images: Contingencies in the Construction of Visualization Technologies and Their Use for Establishing Sex-Differences

Schinzel¹

2011

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In complex contexts and environments, it is necessary for scientific investigations, which respect the findings of gender studies, to withstand simplifications of gender and sex distinctions or non-distinctions. The severe consequences that may follow when such demands are disregarded will be made clear in this article. It will be demonstrated here for medical imaging technologies that these artefacts are not at all unique, reproducible or reliable, in any sense that can be claimed as objective.

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Ambient Intelligence, between Heaven and Hell. A Transformative Critical Room?

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Gender issues in information and communication technologies (ICTs)

Gender issues in information and communication technologies (ICTs)

De-Gendering Neuro-Images: Contingencies in the Construction of Visualization Technologies and Their Use for Establishing Sex-Differences

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