Gender and Social Computing: Interactions, Differences and Relationships - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1609607597 ISBN 13: 9781609607593

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2011

Synopsis

Despite continued public interest in issues relating to gender and computing, there exists a relative scarcity of texts on this topic. Gender and Social Computing: Interactions, Differences and Relationships provides an overview of the major questions that researchers and practitioners are addressing, outlining possible future directions for theory development and empirical research on gender and computing. This comprehensive reference focuses on three areas of research on gender and computing: gender and computing in the work arena, gender and computing in cyberspace, and gender in eDating.

About this title

About the Author:

Celia Romm Livermore is professor at Wayne State University (Detroit, USA). She has published five books: Virtual Politicking (1999), Electronic Commerce: A Global Perspective (1998), Doing Business on the Internet (1999), Self Service on the Internet (2008) and Social Networking and eDating (2008). She also published over a hundred and fifty journal articles, chapters in collective volumes and conference papers. Dr. Romm-Livermore received her PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada, 1979) and has been a lecturer, consultant and visiting scholar in Israel, Japan, Germany, Canada, USA and Australia. Her research interests and areas of publication over the years included: culture and its impact on implementation of information systems, politics and social aspects of virtual communities, virtual work, e-commerce, computer mediated communication and IT/IS education. Dr. Romm Livermore's current research focuses on the social dynamics and politics of social networking communities.

Dr. Romm Livermore's research was published in several journals, such as the Harvard Business Review, Communications of the ACM, Information Management, Transactions on Information Systems, Human Relations, Organization Studies, Comparative Economic Studies, Studies in Popular Culture, The Computer Journal, Database Journal, Journal of Information Systems Management, The Information Society, Australian Journal of Information Systems, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, The Journal of Higher Education, European Journal of Education, Interchange, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Advances in Consumer Behavior, New Technology, Work and Employment, Journal of Informatics Education and Research, Journal of Management Development, Information Technology and People and International Journal of Information Systems.

Review:

Edited by the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP), this volume presents 16 chapters, or previously published articles, from several volumes of IJEP edited by Celia Romm Livermore. This reprinting of originally published and revised material is not clearly noted in the preliminary materials of the volume, nor is it presented in the same place in each chapter. While the topic is of importance in today's ever-widening world of computerized interactions, for those who already subscribe to the journal this book is not a necessary purchase.

Separated into three sections, the work presents chapters on gender and computing such as in the work arena, in cyberspace, and e-dating. Topics covered include not only gender but also disability, segregation, arranged marriages, and feminism as well as the gender split in general. The detailed table of contents and index make it easy for the user to find desired areas of information, although much can be found using databases for the periodical itself as well. The listing of the 35 international contributors is not in alphabetic order, but rather in the order of the presentation of the chapters in the book. This collection and collocation of previously published work is of specific use to those studying gender and computing who want everything in a single location.

--Sara Marcus

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1609607597
• ISBN 13: 9781609607593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 362
• Editor: Romm Livermore Celia