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"For me it doesn't matter where I put my information": Enactments of Agency, Mutual Learning, and Gender in IT Design

"For me it doesn't matter where I put my information": Enactments of Agency, Mutual Learning, and Gender in IT Design
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Author(s): Johanna Sefyrin (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 18
Source title: Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shirley Booth (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Sara Goodman (Lund University, Sweden)and Gill Kirkup (Open University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5.ch004

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Abstract

In information technology (IT) design it is essential to develop rich and nuanced understandings of messy design realities. In this chapter Karen Barad’s agential realism is used as an analytical approach in order to obtain such a multifaceted understanding of a local IT design project. The purpose of the paper is to explore entanglements of agency, mutual learning, and gender in a business process analysis. The main argument here is that these issues were inextricably intertwined with each other and with the sociomaterial relations of which they were part. All empirical material used in the chapter was collected with the help of ethnographic methods. Finally the chapter concludes with a discussion about agential realism as an analytical approach.

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