Research on the inter-relations between Gender and Information &

Communication Technologies is  dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and

creative.

This symposium aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different

disciplines and research schools that are familiar with ICT  and gender

studies, women's studies or feminist studies. The symposium will be held in Brussels on 20 January 2020.

We invite abstracts on the following themes :

- Women, Work and Computerization

- Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life

- Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education

- Gendering Technology: Structure and Design

Examples of possible paper sections in the different themes:

Women, Work and Computerization:

Job profiles and the influence of ICT, the impact of ICT skills in the

job, function classifications, influence of ICT on work organisation,

computerization of work and surveillance, portrayal of ICT (functions),

etc.

Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life:

Possession and use of ICT, domestication, ICT-literacy, user and skill

divide, consequences of use of ICT in the organisation of daily work and

private life, ICT and family life, privacy and ethics, wearables and

biometrics, on-line activities, interaction, Participation and democracy,

etc.

Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education:

Gender differences in ICT-use in school contexts, computer attitudes,

learning styles, informatics curriculum, e-learning, feminist pedagogies,

ICT and lifelong learning, etc.

Gendering Technology: Structure and Design:

Women designing and shaping contents and systems of the new technologies, social shaping of technology, production of ICT, feminist critiques of computing, gender scripts of technology, participatory design,

user-friendlessness, adaptivity, etc.

The deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is November 15.

The final programme will be available by December 15.

The working language of the symposium will be English.

Abstracts may be submitted to: Laurence Claeys or Sarah Meersman at:

[email protected]

Programme Committee: Els Rommes, Sally Wyatt, Anne-Catherine Devolder,

Magda Michielsens and Laurence Claeys.

The symposium is a joint initiative of the Policy Research Centre on

Equal Opportunities (Belgium) and the European SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion:

Gender in the Information Society) network. It is part of Digitales and

is supported by the. Dutch Association for Gender and Technology (The

Netherlands). During the symposium, members of SIGIS will present their

final research reports.

Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities :

http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be

(website only in Dutch)

Dutch Gender and Technology Association:

http://www.indexsociety.nl/genderictsymposium/aboutvgt.htm

Digitales: http://www.digitales-online.org

SIGIS (Strategies of  Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society):

http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/