Proceedings of Gender and IT Appropriation. Science and Practice on Dialogue - Forum for Interdisciplinary Exchange, May 7, 2014
Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are central in everyday life in (post-) indus... more Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are central in everyday life in (post-) industrial societies. However, the conditions of their availability and the practicalities relating to their use vary greatly: ICTs users focus on different social issues using "new media" and (re)produce power dynamics in different ways. From this perspective, ICTs are systems with complex inclusionary and exclusionary mechanisms that run along intersections of class, gender, race, age etc. The paper analyses the results of the research project Self-defence IT. Self-defence IT is an action research project initiated by the migrant women organisation maiz. Therein, women with migration biographies formulate a series of concerns in relation to ICTs that are relevant for both private and public spheres. It shows that the experience of migration changes and influences the way ICTs are used. Depending on context, ICTs may function as instruments to transcend national and social boundaries, as a platform for social control or as an opportunity for mobility in training and work.
Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and user... more Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and users, women and men become enacted in technical devices. Is there a potential for an emancipatory interference with industrial machines, their users and their designers? To answer this question, this paper develops a theoretical account from a feminist new materialist perspective on phenomena as political objects, machines as material agents, and gender as a material-discursive practice. To exemplify the theoretical claim, findings from an interdisciplinary research and development project are presented and discussed. Thereby, I argue for emancipatory interferences with machines on three levels. First, emancipatory interferences take place in the everyday "intra-action" between professional users and their machines with regard to the production of goods and thus gainful (self-) employment. Second, emancipatory interferences occur within collaborative research of these practices, a...
As we know, in most European countries design people from the industrial sector are predominantly... more As we know, in most European countries design people from the industrial sector are predominantly male and consequently, the requirements for a new product are defined by men during the design process, even if more women than men will operate the designed
During the design process a lot of information and requirements have to be considered and evaluat... more During the design process a lot of information and requirements have to be considered and evaluated. In order to develop the best product or machine for the market a complex engineering process has to be performed. Numerous design criteria and requirements ranging from purchase, manufacturing up to sales should be considered and fulfilled but they can be in conflict. This evaluation is a laborious process and the trade off should result in an efficient performance of the machine depending on its functionality and the acceptance of the operator. Therefore it is important to consider the operator requirements in the design process, which is not usually done in the industrial application of mechatronic products.
Feministische Technikforschung untersucht die Verwobenheit von Geschlechterverhaltnissen mit tech... more Feministische Technikforschung untersucht die Verwobenheit von Geschlechterverhaltnissen mit technologischer Forschung und Entwicklung. Ihre aktuelle Geschichte beginnt im Zusammenhang der sog. Zweiten Internationalen Frauenbewegungen in den 1970er-Jahren. In diesem Beitrag werden konzeptuelle Grundlagen und methodische Entwicklungen feministischer Erforschung von „Technikverhaltnissen“ dargelegt. Das „Manifest fur Cyborgs“ (Haraway) stellt die Basis fur die Uberwindung der Verknupfung von Mannlichkeit und Technik dar. Es wird gezeigt, wie auf dem Weg der Vervielfaltigung von Interessensartikulation und technischen Sichtweisen in Designteams (Balsamo) eine gleichberechtigte Vielfalt zur kreativen Chance wird. Anschliesend wird erortert, wie die Erkenntnis der Dynamik des Mensch-Maschine-Verhaltnisses (Suchman) zur Grundlage fur die Moglichkeit feministischer Verschiebungen von Geschlechternormen in den Technowissenschaften wird. Vorschlage fur empirische Anwendungen, wie z. B. Mind ...
The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged ... more The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors’ collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: NetworkingEuropean Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’[...]
Feminist epistemologies have promoted other worlds as not only thinkable and realizable but alrea... more Feminist epistemologies have promoted other worlds as not only thinkable and realizable but already materialized – at the fringes or margins or flip sides of dominating views: in new materialist accounts these practices of world making are called "other worldings". To think the world, and hence truth and reality as plural and in process, as collaborative worldly endeavours and related to multiple entangled – or situated – speaking subjects, has been a crucial achievement of feminist epistemology until today. On this basis, the paper brings together ethical approaches from feminist new materialism with decolonial contestations of Enlightenment accounts on autonomous subjectivity towards a radical re-valuation of interrelating with others and enactments of the "methodology of the oppressed". The city, in our view, is not only the place of neo-liberal divisions and high-tech competitions but also best suited for realizing encounter zones and creating space for trans...
Editorial introduction to the journal special issue of "Social Sciences". The whole issue is avai... more Editorial introduction to the journal special issue of "Social Sciences". The whole issue is available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Feminist_new_materialsms. The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors' collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and more specifically it was born at the 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, held at Utrecht University in June 2018. The editors were then able to trace the discussions within new materialism, but also on the margins of it, and in dialogues with researchers with different academic backgrounds or coming from other theoretical standpoints. Those dialogues all have different affective modalities, raised various theoretical (counter) arguments, and imagined heterogeneous practices. As editors of this issue of "Social Sciences," we recognized the need to rethink feminist new materialisms, yet again accentuating and activating its ethico-political dimensions and stakes. We are undertaking this endeavour together with scholars, who have been composing the cartography of feminist new materialist research for some time now (among them: Alaimo and Hekman 2008; Coole and Frost 2010; Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012; Van der Tuin 2015; Cielemęcka and Rogowska-Stangret 2018), and we aim at grasping specifically its ethico-political practices.
Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and user... more Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and users, women and men become enacted in technical devices. Is there a potential for an emancipatory interference with industrial machines, their users and their designers? To answer this question, this paper develops a theoretical account from a feminist new materialist perspective on phenomena as political objects, machines as material agents, and gender as a material-discursive practice. To exemplify the theoretical claim, findings from an interdisciplinary research and development project are presented and discussed. Thereby, I argue for emancipatory interferences with machines on three levels. First, emancipatory interferences take place in the everyday “intra-action” between professional users and their machines with regard to the production of goods and thus gainful (self-)employment. Second, emancipatory interferences occur within collaborative research of these practices, and intervene in the apparatus of that research. Third, emancipatory interferences occur in the machine design process by enacting heterogeneous processes of experiencing and knowing that are diversely situated within both practices and practitioners in the workplace. I demonstrate how the project supported transformative becomings in the situated production of knowledge and items created with industrial machines.
Feministische Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, 2002
Geschlecht wird in feministischen Untersuchungen als Herrschafts-und Unterdrückungskategorie isol... more Geschlecht wird in feministischen Untersuchungen als Herrschafts-und Unterdrückungskategorie isoliert. Die einzelnen Forschungsansätze divergieren allerdings sehr stark hinsichtlich dessen, worin die Gründe für diese Funktion gesucht und gefunden ...
Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are
central in everyday life in (post-) indu... more Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are
central in everyday life in (post-) industrial societies.
However, the conditions of their availability and the
practicalities relating to their use vary greatly: ICTs users
focus on different social issues using “new media” and
(re)produce power dynamics in different ways. From this
perspective, ICTs are systems with complex inclusionary
and exclusionary mechanisms that run along intersections
of class, gender, race, age etc.
The paper analyses the results of the research project Selfdefence IT. Self-defence IT is an action research project
initiated by the migrant women organisation maiz. Therein,
women with migration biographies formulate a series of
concerns in relation to ICTs that are relevant for both private
and public spheres. It shows that the experience of migration
changes and influences the way ICTs are used. Depending
on context, ICTs may function as instruments to transcend
national and social boundaries, as a platform for social
control or as an opportunity for mobility in training and
work.
Proceedings of Gender and IT Appropriation. Science and Practice on Dialogue - Forum for Interdisciplinary Exchange, May 7, 2014
Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are central in everyday life in (post-) indus... more Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are central in everyday life in (post-) industrial societies. However, the conditions of their availability and the practicalities relating to their use vary greatly: ICTs users focus on different social issues using "new media" and (re)produce power dynamics in different ways. From this perspective, ICTs are systems with complex inclusionary and exclusionary mechanisms that run along intersections of class, gender, race, age etc. The paper analyses the results of the research project Self-defence IT. Self-defence IT is an action research project initiated by the migrant women organisation maiz. Therein, women with migration biographies formulate a series of concerns in relation to ICTs that are relevant for both private and public spheres. It shows that the experience of migration changes and influences the way ICTs are used. Depending on context, ICTs may function as instruments to transcend national and social boundaries, as a platform for social control or as an opportunity for mobility in training and work.
Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and user... more Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and users, women and men become enacted in technical devices. Is there a potential for an emancipatory interference with industrial machines, their users and their designers? To answer this question, this paper develops a theoretical account from a feminist new materialist perspective on phenomena as political objects, machines as material agents, and gender as a material-discursive practice. To exemplify the theoretical claim, findings from an interdisciplinary research and development project are presented and discussed. Thereby, I argue for emancipatory interferences with machines on three levels. First, emancipatory interferences take place in the everyday "intra-action" between professional users and their machines with regard to the production of goods and thus gainful (self-) employment. Second, emancipatory interferences occur within collaborative research of these practices, a...
As we know, in most European countries design people from the industrial sector are predominantly... more As we know, in most European countries design people from the industrial sector are predominantly male and consequently, the requirements for a new product are defined by men during the design process, even if more women than men will operate the designed
During the design process a lot of information and requirements have to be considered and evaluat... more During the design process a lot of information and requirements have to be considered and evaluated. In order to develop the best product or machine for the market a complex engineering process has to be performed. Numerous design criteria and requirements ranging from purchase, manufacturing up to sales should be considered and fulfilled but they can be in conflict. This evaluation is a laborious process and the trade off should result in an efficient performance of the machine depending on its functionality and the acceptance of the operator. Therefore it is important to consider the operator requirements in the design process, which is not usually done in the industrial application of mechatronic products.
Feministische Technikforschung untersucht die Verwobenheit von Geschlechterverhaltnissen mit tech... more Feministische Technikforschung untersucht die Verwobenheit von Geschlechterverhaltnissen mit technologischer Forschung und Entwicklung. Ihre aktuelle Geschichte beginnt im Zusammenhang der sog. Zweiten Internationalen Frauenbewegungen in den 1970er-Jahren. In diesem Beitrag werden konzeptuelle Grundlagen und methodische Entwicklungen feministischer Erforschung von „Technikverhaltnissen“ dargelegt. Das „Manifest fur Cyborgs“ (Haraway) stellt die Basis fur die Uberwindung der Verknupfung von Mannlichkeit und Technik dar. Es wird gezeigt, wie auf dem Weg der Vervielfaltigung von Interessensartikulation und technischen Sichtweisen in Designteams (Balsamo) eine gleichberechtigte Vielfalt zur kreativen Chance wird. Anschliesend wird erortert, wie die Erkenntnis der Dynamik des Mensch-Maschine-Verhaltnisses (Suchman) zur Grundlage fur die Moglichkeit feministischer Verschiebungen von Geschlechternormen in den Technowissenschaften wird. Vorschlage fur empirische Anwendungen, wie z. B. Mind ...
The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged ... more The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors’ collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: NetworkingEuropean Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’[...]
Feminist epistemologies have promoted other worlds as not only thinkable and realizable but alrea... more Feminist epistemologies have promoted other worlds as not only thinkable and realizable but already materialized – at the fringes or margins or flip sides of dominating views: in new materialist accounts these practices of world making are called "other worldings". To think the world, and hence truth and reality as plural and in process, as collaborative worldly endeavours and related to multiple entangled – or situated – speaking subjects, has been a crucial achievement of feminist epistemology until today. On this basis, the paper brings together ethical approaches from feminist new materialism with decolonial contestations of Enlightenment accounts on autonomous subjectivity towards a radical re-valuation of interrelating with others and enactments of the "methodology of the oppressed". The city, in our view, is not only the place of neo-liberal divisions and high-tech competitions but also best suited for realizing encounter zones and creating space for trans...
Editorial introduction to the journal special issue of "Social Sciences". The whole issue is avai... more Editorial introduction to the journal special issue of "Social Sciences". The whole issue is available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Feminist_new_materialsms. The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors' collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and more specifically it was born at the 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, held at Utrecht University in June 2018. The editors were then able to trace the discussions within new materialism, but also on the margins of it, and in dialogues with researchers with different academic backgrounds or coming from other theoretical standpoints. Those dialogues all have different affective modalities, raised various theoretical (counter) arguments, and imagined heterogeneous practices. As editors of this issue of "Social Sciences," we recognized the need to rethink feminist new materialisms, yet again accentuating and activating its ethico-political dimensions and stakes. We are undertaking this endeavour together with scholars, who have been composing the cartography of feminist new materialist research for some time now (among them: Alaimo and Hekman 2008; Coole and Frost 2010; Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012; Van der Tuin 2015; Cielemęcka and Rogowska-Stangret 2018), and we aim at grasping specifically its ethico-political practices.
Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and user... more Powerful entanglements and meanings of difference between machines and humans, designers and users, women and men become enacted in technical devices. Is there a potential for an emancipatory interference with industrial machines, their users and their designers? To answer this question, this paper develops a theoretical account from a feminist new materialist perspective on phenomena as political objects, machines as material agents, and gender as a material-discursive practice. To exemplify the theoretical claim, findings from an interdisciplinary research and development project are presented and discussed. Thereby, I argue for emancipatory interferences with machines on three levels. First, emancipatory interferences take place in the everyday “intra-action” between professional users and their machines with regard to the production of goods and thus gainful (self-)employment. Second, emancipatory interferences occur within collaborative research of these practices, and intervene in the apparatus of that research. Third, emancipatory interferences occur in the machine design process by enacting heterogeneous processes of experiencing and knowing that are diversely situated within both practices and practitioners in the workplace. I demonstrate how the project supported transformative becomings in the situated production of knowledge and items created with industrial machines.
Feministische Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, 2002
Geschlecht wird in feministischen Untersuchungen als Herrschafts-und Unterdrückungskategorie isol... more Geschlecht wird in feministischen Untersuchungen als Herrschafts-und Unterdrückungskategorie isoliert. Die einzelnen Forschungsansätze divergieren allerdings sehr stark hinsichtlich dessen, worin die Gründe für diese Funktion gesucht und gefunden ...
Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are
central in everyday life in (post-) indu... more Information- and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are
central in everyday life in (post-) industrial societies.
However, the conditions of their availability and the
practicalities relating to their use vary greatly: ICTs users
focus on different social issues using “new media” and
(re)produce power dynamics in different ways. From this
perspective, ICTs are systems with complex inclusionary
and exclusionary mechanisms that run along intersections
of class, gender, race, age etc.
The paper analyses the results of the research project Selfdefence IT. Self-defence IT is an action research project
initiated by the migrant women organisation maiz. Therein,
women with migration biographies formulate a series of
concerns in relation to ICTs that are relevant for both private
and public spheres. It shows that the experience of migration
changes and influences the way ICTs are used. Depending
on context, ICTs may function as instruments to transcend
national and social boundaries, as a platform for social
control or as an opportunity for mobility in training and
work.
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The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors' collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and more specifically it was born at the 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, held at Utrecht University in June 2018. The editors were then able to trace the discussions within new materialism, but also on the margins of it, and in dialogues with researchers with different academic backgrounds or coming from other theoretical standpoints. Those dialogues all have different affective modalities, raised various theoretical (counter) arguments, and imagined heterogeneous practices. As editors of this issue of "Social Sciences," we recognized the need to rethink feminist new materialisms, yet again accentuating and activating its ethico-political dimensions and stakes. We are undertaking this endeavour together with scholars, who have been composing the cartography of feminist new materialist research for some time now (among them: Alaimo and Hekman 2008; Coole and Frost 2010; Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012; Van der Tuin 2015; Cielemęcka and Rogowska-Stangret 2018), and we aim at grasping specifically its ethico-political practices.
central in everyday life in (post-) industrial societies.
However, the conditions of their availability and the
practicalities relating to their use vary greatly: ICTs users
focus on different social issues using “new media” and
(re)produce power dynamics in different ways. From this
perspective, ICTs are systems with complex inclusionary
and exclusionary mechanisms that run along intersections
of class, gender, race, age etc.
The paper analyses the results of the research project Selfdefence IT. Self-defence IT is an action research project
initiated by the migrant women organisation maiz. Therein,
women with migration biographies formulate a series of
concerns in relation to ICTs that are relevant for both private
and public spheres. It shows that the experience of migration
changes and influences the way ICTs are used. Depending
on context, ICTs may function as instruments to transcend
national and social boundaries, as a platform for social
control or as an opportunity for mobility in training and
work.
The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors' collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and more specifically it was born at the 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, held at Utrecht University in June 2018. The editors were then able to trace the discussions within new materialism, but also on the margins of it, and in dialogues with researchers with different academic backgrounds or coming from other theoretical standpoints. Those dialogues all have different affective modalities, raised various theoretical (counter) arguments, and imagined heterogeneous practices. As editors of this issue of "Social Sciences," we recognized the need to rethink feminist new materialisms, yet again accentuating and activating its ethico-political dimensions and stakes. We are undertaking this endeavour together with scholars, who have been composing the cartography of feminist new materialist research for some time now (among them: Alaimo and Hekman 2008; Coole and Frost 2010; Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012; Van der Tuin 2015; Cielemęcka and Rogowska-Stangret 2018), and we aim at grasping specifically its ethico-political practices.
central in everyday life in (post-) industrial societies.
However, the conditions of their availability and the
practicalities relating to their use vary greatly: ICTs users
focus on different social issues using “new media” and
(re)produce power dynamics in different ways. From this
perspective, ICTs are systems with complex inclusionary
and exclusionary mechanisms that run along intersections
of class, gender, race, age etc.
The paper analyses the results of the research project Selfdefence IT. Self-defence IT is an action research project
initiated by the migrant women organisation maiz. Therein,
women with migration biographies formulate a series of
concerns in relation to ICTs that are relevant for both private
and public spheres. It shows that the experience of migration
changes and influences the way ICTs are used. Depending
on context, ICTs may function as instruments to transcend
national and social boundaries, as a platform for social
control or as an opportunity for mobility in training and
work.