Gender and Computers - Joel Cooper, Kimberlee D. Weaver

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The book is intended to appeal to students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, education, human factors, and computer science interested in gender differences in general, and in human-computer interaction, in particular.

Autorentext

Joel Cooper, Kimberlee D. Weaver

Zusammenfassung
The authors explore the proposition that computers have the potential for creating inequity in classroom education and in who is encouraged to pursue the study of computer science itself. They outline some psychological factors that have contributed to the inequality regarding gender and computers.

Inhalt

1. Introducing the Problem 2. Computer Anxiety: A Matter of Gender 3. The Social Context of Computing 4. Expectancies and the Computer 5. A Threat in the Air 6. Working Toward Solutions 7. Solutions: Single-Sex Schools and Classrooms?

Titel

Gender and Computers

Untertitel

Understanding the Digital Divide

Autor

Joel Cooper

Kimberlee D. Weaver

EAN

9781135628277

ISBN

978-1-135-62827-7

Format