Alison Adam
Biographic Data
| ID | 5756136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Adam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Adam |
| SIGNATURE | ADAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Postcolonialism and Technologies of Identification
This chapter challenges traditional diffusionist approaches to the circulation of scientific and technological knowledge, exploring instead the “geographical turn” in science and technology studies through postcolonial philosophy which was developed to understand the movement of technical knowledge between west and east. The late nineteenth-century problem of unique identification of individuals, for civil and legal purposes in colonial India, pr…
Disability and Discourses of Web Accessibility
Much of the World Wide Web remains inaccessible or difficult to access by people across a spectrum of disabilities and this may have serious implications for the potential use of the web for increasing social inclusion. We argue that the complexities of web accessibility are best analysed against a set of relevant discourses and that part of the reason for the obduracy of web inaccessibility lies in crucial gaps in engagement of these discourses,…
Gendered Futures? Women, the ICT Workplace and Stories of the Future
This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future of the ICT sector in terms of skills shortages and gender imbalances, an understanding of how female ICT professionals view this future is vital. Using data gathered from female ICT professionals in t…
Web Accessibility
When Computers Were Human (review)
Reviewed by Alison Adam When Computers Were Human. By David Alan Grier. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 411. $35. We take for granted the easy computational power of contemporary electronic devices. Yet, even in the recent past, scientific calculations were, of necessity, done by hand, and the laborious job of producing complex scientific calculations was that of human "computers." David Grier's thoroughly researched and de…
Virtual Gender
A decade of neglect
This paper presents the case that research on gender and information systems (IS), from both quantitative and qualitative traditions, is problematic as the concept of gender continues to remain under‐theorised. This will be elaborated upon with a critique of some recent qualitative and quantitative research papers that have been published in key IS journals within a ten‐year period
Hacking into Hacking
Women hackers, and whether there are any, has proved to be an endlessly fascinating topic. This paper explores the gender dimensions of hacking in terms of the male domination of hacking, the presence or absence of women hackers, the influence of the frontier metaphor and especially frontier masculinity." Central tenets of the 'hacker ethic' are examined including whether hacker communities are more egalitarian than other communities, the equal o…
Equal opportunies online
No abstract available
Gender and computer ethics
This paper reviews the relatively small body of work in computer ethics which looks at the question of whether gender makes any difference to ethical decisions. There are two strands of writing on gender and computer ethics. The first focuses on problems of women's access to computer technology; the second concentrates on whether there are differences between men and women's ethical decision making in relation to information and computing technol…
On‐line leisure
Research into office automation originally acted as a catalyst for research into gender perspectives on information technology. Whilst a fuller picture of women's use of ICTs is emerging, there has been little research on women's leisure use of ICTs, particularly within a domestic setting. Added to the way in which the leisure studies discipline has discovered gender as a variable, this is somewhat surprising. In this paper we argue that current …
A Feminist Critique of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence and women's knowledge
Gendered knowledge — Epistemology and artificial intelligence
What can the history of AI learn from the history of science
Expert systems and women's lives
A decade of neglect
This paper presents the case that research on gender and information systems (IS), from both quantitative and qualitative traditions, is problematic as the concept of gender continues to remain under‐theorised. This will be elaborated upon with a critique of some recent qualitative and quantitative research papers that have been published in key IS journals within a ten‐year period
Gendered Futures? Women, the ICT Workplace and Stories of the Future
This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future of the ICT sector in terms of skills shortages and gender imbalances, an understanding of how female ICT professionals view this future is vital. Using data gathered from female ICT professionals in t…
A Feminist Critique of Artificial Intelligence
Expert systems and women's lives
Artificial intelligence and women's knowledge
Expert systems and women's lives
What can the history of AI learn from the history of science
Gendered knowledge — Epistemology and artificial intelligence
A Feminist Critique of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence and women's knowledge
On‐line leisure
Research into office automation originally acted as a catalyst for research into gender perspectives on information technology. Whilst a fuller picture of women's use of ICTs is emerging, there has been little research on women's leisure use of ICTs, particularly within a domestic setting. Added to the way in which the leisure studies discipline has discovered gender as a variable, this is somewhat surprising. In this paper we argue that current …
Gender and computer ethics
This paper reviews the relatively small body of work in computer ethics which looks at the question of whether gender makes any difference to ethical decisions. There are two strands of writing on gender and computer ethics. The first focuses on problems of women's access to computer technology; the second concentrates on whether there are differences between men and women's ethical decision making in relation to information and computing technol…
Equal opportunies online
No abstract available
Hacking into Hacking
Women hackers, and whether there are any, has proved to be an endlessly fascinating topic. This paper explores the gender dimensions of hacking in terms of the male domination of hacking, the presence or absence of women hackers, the influence of the frontier metaphor and especially frontier masculinity." Central tenets of the 'hacker ethic' are examined including whether hacker communities are more egalitarian than other communities, the equal o…
A decade of neglect
This paper presents the case that research on gender and information systems (IS), from both quantitative and qualitative traditions, is problematic as the concept of gender continues to remain under‐theorised. This will be elaborated upon with a critique of some recent qualitative and quantitative research papers that have been published in key IS journals within a ten‐year period
Virtual Gender
Web Accessibility
When Computers Were Human (review)
Reviewed by Alison Adam When Computers Were Human. By David Alan Grier. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 411. $35. We take for granted the easy computational power of contemporary electronic devices. Yet, even in the recent past, scientific calculations were, of necessity, done by hand, and the laborious job of producing complex scientific calculations was that of human "computers." David Grier's thoroughly researched and de…
Gendered Futures? Women, the ICT Workplace and Stories of the Future
This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future of the ICT sector in terms of skills shortages and gender imbalances, an understanding of how female ICT professionals view this future is vital. Using data gathered from female ICT professionals in t…
Disability and Discourses of Web Accessibility
Much of the World Wide Web remains inaccessible or difficult to access by people across a spectrum of disabilities and this may have serious implications for the potential use of the web for increasing social inclusion. We argue that the complexities of web accessibility are best analysed against a set of relevant discourses and that part of the reason for the obduracy of web inaccessibility lies in crucial gaps in engagement of these discourses,…
Postcolonialism and Technologies of Identification
This chapter challenges traditional diffusionist approaches to the circulation of scientific and technological knowledge, exploring instead the “geographical turn” in science and technology studies through postcolonial philosophy which was developed to understand the movement of technical knowledge between west and east. The late nineteenth-century problem of unique identification of individuals, for civil and legal purposes in colonial India, pr…
Computer Science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Information and Communications Technology (3 works)