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Dyb, Kari
PhD Candidate in sociology, Culture and Social Sciences programme, University of Tromsø.| Name: | Kari Dyb |
| Discipline: | Sociology |
| Education/place of study: | Culture and social sciences programme, University of Tromsø |
| Time frame: | 2005-2009 |
| Source of funding: | The Research Council of Norway and the project KIM (Space, Power and Communication) |
| Project title: | Born on broadband. A feminist analysis of the close interweaving of technical and social aspects in the development and implementation of ICT in prenatal care |
| Supervisor: | Anne Britt Flemmen, University of Tromsø |
Project description:At an abstract level the project concerns the relationship between human and machine, between technology and society, focusing on aspects including gender, power and scope for making changes. Two cases of telemedicine implementation in prenatal care will be studied. In one case the technology was applied actively, while in the other case it was completely peripheral. The conditions for implementation of technology and how the participants negotiate the conditions are key issues.The theoretical foundation for the project is recent Actor-Network Theory and feminist technology studies: Perspectives that create the opportunity for to a "close interweaving" of technical and social aspects in a "seamless fabric". By including a feminist approach, I wish to counter criticism of early ANT thinking in which power and gender perspectives were undercommunicated. The field of prenatal and delivery care can thus be understood as an excellent empirical starting point for critical reflection about a theoretical tradition where several studies have been criticized for gender blindness. In a women's field such as prenatal care, is it natural to ask whether technology in itself is shaped by gender, and whether gender is shaped by technology? The empirical examples can thus be analysed both as good examples of a close interweaving of technical and social aspects in technological development, and as an opportunity for critical reflection and further development of a theoretical perspective. Questions about how gender is negotiated in relation to ICT and how ICT is negotiated in relation to gender will be important dimensions in the analysis. Contact informationKari Dyb, telephone +47 901 10 922 and email kari.dyb@telemed.no | |
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