Feminist technoscience studies

Åsberg, Cecilia; Lykke, Nina

doi:10.1177/1350506810377692

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“…To do this, we root our approach in feminist theories of technology [116] and technoscience e.g. [9][38] [66], entwined with critical-humanistic HCI as proposed by Bardzell and Bardzell in [14]. While it has been argued that designing for women risks ghettoizing them [24], or that a risk lies in designing technology explicitly for women [82], we will place an emphasis on approaches that embody lived experience, but that also position approaches to a woman's health as demanding of justice, in that it regards bodily integrity and takes women's rights into perspective.…”

Section: A Woman-centered Approach In Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Almeida

Balaam

Comber

2020

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Women account for over half of the global population, however continue to be subject to systematic and systemic disadvantage, particularly in terms of access to health and education. At every intersection, where systemic inequality accounts for greater loss of life or limitations on full and healthy living, women are more greatly impacted by those inequalities. The design of technologies is no different, the very definition of technology is historically cast in terms of male activities, and advancements in the field are critical to improve women's quality of life. This paper views HCI, a relatively new field, as well positioned to act critically in the ways that technology serve, refigure and redefine women's bodies. Indeed, the female body remains a contested topic, a restriction to the development of women's health. Women's health-as a medicalized field exists, and people's experiences of it are problematic for many. This is visible today in e.g. socio-cultural practices in disparate geographies or medical devices within a clinic. Moreover, the biological body is part of a great unmentionable, i.e. the perils of essentialism. We contend that it is necessary, pragmatically and ethically, for HCI to turn its attention towards a woman-centered design approach. While previous research has argued for the dangers of gender-demarcated design work, we advance that designing for and with women should not be regarded as ghettoizing, but instead as critical to improving women's experiences in bodily transactions, choices, rights, and access to and in health and care. In this paper, we consider how and why designing with and for Woman matters, and use our design-led research as a way to speak to, and illustrate alternatives to this field. CCS CONCEPT insertion: The new template enables you to import required indexing concepts for your article from the ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) using an indexing support tool found in the ACM Digital Library (DL). The tool generates formatted text after you have selected your terms. To insert your CCS terms into your document, copy and paste the formatted text from the CCS tool using the "https://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm" link into the "CCS CONCEPTS" section.

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Section: A Woman-centered Approach In Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Almeida

Balaam

Comber

2020

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…Further, feminist technoscience has examined discursive and material aspects of ‘sociotechnical relations and processes of materialization [as] inextricably intertwined’, i.e. as entangled (Åsberg and Lykke, 2010: 299), 3 and has argued that it is necessary to examine how specific material-discursive entanglements co-produce the social, the technological and subjectivity (see Moser, 2006; Højgaard and Søndergaard, 2011; Johnson and Åsberg, 2017). Scholars have traced dynamic orderings of bodies, subjects and things, have examined material-discursive entanglements within for example medical and public health practices and have shown how specific subjectivities or subject positions co-emerge with them (see, for example: Lindén, 2017).…”

Section: Feminist Technoscience Subjectification and Subject Positionsmentioning

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Why feminist technoscience and feminist phenomenology should engage with each other: on subjectification/subjectivity

Zeiler

2020

Feminist Theory

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Feminist technoscience and feminist phenomenology have seldom been brought into dialogue with each other, despite them sharing concerns with subjectivity and normativity, and despite both of them moving away from sharp subject-object distinctions. This is unfortunate. This article argues that, while differences between these strands need to be acknowledged, such differences should be put to productive use. The article discusses a case of school bullying, and suggests that bringing these analytic perspectives together enables and sharpens examinations of the role of subjectification and subject positions for subjectivity in the phenomenological sense; affectivity within material-discursive entanglements and constellations of humans and things, and as connecting the body, things and the world in specific ways; and normativity as enacted, lived and embedded in perception.

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“…Feminist technoscience is a transdisciplinary field that studies how power relations impact on knowledge production in science and technology. The field challenges a positivist objectivity through an epistemology, where categorizations of gender, ethnicity, and class are entangled with sociomaterial practices in a globalized world (Åsberg & Lykke, ; Law & Singleton, ). Together with postcolonial STS, feminist technoscience challenges “unidirectional ‘diffusion’ models of science and modernity, where science, rationality, progress and enlightenment always rest in Europe or the West, to subsequently diffuse to non‐Western nations” (Pollock & Subramaniam, , p. 953).…”

Section: Feminist Technoscience and Postcolonial Computingmentioning

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Exploring technology design among mobile entrepreneurs in Kampala: An open space workshop

Paxling

2019

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are located at the center of international development and considered vital for the progress of the current sustainable development goals. ICTs are embedded in cultural structures and social norms, which provide both possibilities and challenges to the people working with technologies such as mobile phones. Drawing upon theories and methodologies of feminist and postcolonial technosciences, my research objective is an exploration of how young entrepreneurs in Uganda affect and are affected by technology design. This article is based on conversations from an Open space workshop that took place at a tech hub in Kampala in 2012. The theme of the workshop was “The mobile futures of Uganda: sharing visions and challenges for today and tomorrow.” The workshop discussions showcase how norms and values are embedded in technology design and how colonial relationships still linger and affect contemporary design and technology practices. Together with my empirical material, I perform technoscientific stories that discuss challenges in entrepreneurship, working in software development and user design practices. I argue that studying the social and political dimensions of technology design is crucial for forming more inclusive and heterogeneous ICT practices.

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Feminist technoscience studies

Cited by 60 publications

References 8 publications

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Why feminist technoscience and feminist phenomenology should engage with each other: on subjectification/subjectivity

Exploring technology design among mobile entrepreneurs in Kampala: An open space workshop

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