Configuring the User as Everybody - Oudshorn et al. - Based on two case studies of the design of electronic communication networks developed in the public and private sector, this article explores the barriers within current design cultures to account for the needs and diversity of users. Whereas the constraints on user-centered design are usually described in macrosociological terms, in which the user–technology relation is merely understood as a process of the inclusion or exclusion of users in design, the authors suggest that it is important to adopt a semiotic approach. Moreover, they argue that we need to take into account the gender identity of designers to understand how design practices in ICT prioritize male users. The article shows how configuring the user as "everybody" and the use of the "I-methodology" are important constraints in the development of technologies that aim to reach users in all their diversity.

Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States - At least ch 3 which talks about RSI litigation and gendered constructions of typing / mediated thinking.

Prospects for a Materialist Informatics: Interview with Donna Haraway by Lisa Nakamura

Making Technology Masculine by Ruth Oldenziel (or a selection?)

Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and The Modernization of Patriarchal Power.” Feminism and Foucault. Eds. Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988. 61-86.

Anne Balsamo, Technologies of the gendered body: reading cyborg women. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996 (esp. Ch.1, “Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism: Reading the body in contemporary culture”).

Judith Squires “Fabulous feminist futures and the lure of cyberculture” in Bell, Cybercultures Reader

Chela Sandoval “New sciences: cyborg feminism and the methodology of the oppressed” in Bell, Cybercultures Reader

Jean Lave and Ray McDermott, "Estranged Learning" http://www.outlines.dk/contents/Outlines021/Outlines-2002-1-p19-48.pdf

Some Themes & Provocative Issues to Discuss

Feminism and phenomenology

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Participants

Lilly

Jill

Morgan

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Meetings

Monday,  July 13 - 6:30pm - Muddy Waters at 16th and Valencia - Haraway / Nakamura; Oudshorn