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This paper discusses the domestication of ICTs in the UK, using a critical lens to focus in on ICT use by families and households drawing on a 5 year longitudinal study. Analysis concentrates on how ICTs are embedded into gendered households, how issues of gendered technologies are manifested in the everyday experiences of women, enmeshing ICT use for work, study, and leisure into domestic family life. The social, political, economic, and historical context is that of versions of inclusion in the so-called information society—a debate that wavers between a somber and shining vision.
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Richardson, H.J. (2006). Space Invaders—Time Raiders: Gendered Technologies in Gendered UK Households. In: Trauth, E.M., Howcroft, D., Butler, T., Fitzgerald, B., DeGross, J.I. (eds) Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 208. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34588-4_12
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