TY - JOUR
T1 - How diversity gets lost
T2 - Age and gender in design practices of information and communication technologies
AU - Oudshoorn, Nelly
AU - Neven, Louis
AU - Stienstra, Marcelle
PY - 2016/2/26
Y1 - 2016/2/26
N2 - This article adopts an intersectional approach to investigate how age, gender, and diversity are represented, silenced, or prioritized in design. Based on a comparative study of design practices of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for young girls and older people, this article describes differences and similarities in the ways in which designers tried to cope with diversity. Ultimately diversity was neglected, and the developers relied on hegemonic views of gender and age, constructed older people and young girls as an “other,” and consequently their input was neglected. These views were thus materialized in design and reinforce such views in powerful yet unobtrusive ways.
AB - This article adopts an intersectional approach to investigate how age, gender, and diversity are represented, silenced, or prioritized in design. Based on a comparative study of design practices of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for young girls and older people, this article describes differences and similarities in the ways in which designers tried to cope with diversity. Ultimately diversity was neglected, and the developers relied on hegemonic views of gender and age, constructed older people and young girls as an “other,” and consequently their input was neglected. These views were thus materialized in design and reinforce such views in powerful yet unobtrusive ways.
U2 - 10.1080/08952841.2015.1013834
DO - 10.1080/08952841.2015.1013834
M3 - Article
VL - 28
SP - 170
EP - 185
JO - Journal of women & aging
JF - Journal of women & aging
SN - 0895-2841
IS - 2
ER -