Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 3 Issue 4

Some ideas on constitutive ethics for information and communication technologies

Frances Grundy

Kramer and Kramarae have identified four sets of masculine gendered ideas that are used in conceptualising the Internet: anarchy, frontier, democracy and community. These are…

Feminist research and computer science: starting a dialogue

Christina Björkman

In this paper I discuss how feminist research focusing epistemological issues can be used within computer science (CS). I approach and explore epistemological questions in…

The social relations of large scale software system implementation

Linda Stepulevage, Miriam Mukasa

This paper focuses on the integration of generic software such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) into organisational life. These applications have gained prominence as the IT…

Internet research from a gender perspective Searching for differentiated use patterns

Gabriele Winker

The current scientific and political discussion on the under‐representation of women within the Internet once again associates women with disinterest in technology in an…

Helpless machines and true loving care givers: a feminist critique of recent trends in human‐robot interaction

Jutta Weber

In recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and especially in robotics we can observe a tendency towards building intelligent artefacts that are meant to be social, to…

Intelligent ambience between Heaven and Hell: A salvation?

Cecile K. M. Crutzen

Questioning gender is about taking an active, critical role in the technological design of our daily behaviour. It is a deconstruction of the oppositions that exist in the…

‘I fell in love with the machine’ Women’s pleasure in computing

Hilde Corneliussen

Enthusiasm over technology is found among men. Or, at least, that is the impression we get from the main body of earlier research, which leaves us with an understanding of men as…