What's Missing In Feminist Research In New Information And Communication Technologies?

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable, insightful and illuminating comments. All the shortcomings and oversights, needless to say, are mine.

Notes

1. For example, a number of journals in both the fields of communications and women's studies have published special issues on women/gender and new information and communication technologies, they include: Information, Communication and Society (1999, vol. 2, no. 4), The Information Society (1999, vol. 15, no. 3), Nordic Journal of Women's Studies (2002, vol. 11, no. 3), The International Journal of International Communication (1996, vol. 3, no. 1), Media, Culture and Society (1992, vol. 14, no. 1), Feminist Media Studies (2003, vol. 3, no. 3), and Gender and Development (1999, vol. 7, no. 2).

2. The nineteen journals are Information, Communication and Society, New Media and Society , Convergence, Journal of Communication , Critical Studies in Media Communication , Development, European Journal of Women's Studies , Media, Culture and Society, Sex Roles , Gender and Development, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography , The Information Society, Internet Research Electronic Networking Applications and Policy , Feminist Studies, NORA: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies , Journal of International Development , the Journal of International Communication . The edited books are: James Brook and Iain Boal (1995), Susan Star (1995), Jennifer Terry and Melodie Calvert (1997), Judy Malloy (2003), Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks (2001), Barbara Saunders and Marie-Claire Foblets (2002).

3. No. 8 Verizon Communications, No. 9 IBM, No. 13 SBC Communications, No. 15 Microsoft, No. 28 Intel, No. 37 BellSouth, No. 38 Cisco Systems, No. 47 AT&T, No. 50 Dell Computers, No. 83 SprintFox.