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Opaque Obstacles: The Role of Stigma, Rumor, and Superstition in Limiting Women’s Access to Computing in Rural Bangladesh

Authors:

Sharifa Sultana,

S.M.Raihanul Alam,

Khandaker Reaz Mahmud,

Zinnat Sultana,

Syed Ishtiaque AhmedAuthors Info & Claims

COMPASS '21: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Pages 243 - 260

https://doi.org/10.1145/3460112.3471960

Published: 23 September 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Marginalized communities’ access to and use of ICT have long been a concern in HCI4D and social computing. Many works in this domain have pointed out that the challenges to access to ICT often go beyond limited computing resources and skills and frequently include many other socio-cultural factors. In this paper, we report three of the factors that arose while studying rural Bangladeshi women’s access to ICT: stigma, rumor, and superstition. Through an eight-month-long mix-method study with 23 rural women in Jessore, we explored the forms of fear and resistance to use computing devices prevalent among this population, particularly among the women we studied. We report how their stigma, rumors and superstitions often entangled with each other and created a gender-specific resistance to women’s ICT use. This paper further discusses how this resistance was connected to a weak economy and insufficient legal and educational infrastructure in the rural community. We extend the discussion to implications for design, policy, patriarchy, and other social practices to address these human factors in HCI4D and social sustainability scholarship.

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