Future Internet Scenarios to Further the Art of Feminist Technology Creation (original) (raw)
The reason behind the development of the Future Internet (FI) research field is an increased awareness of several critical shortcomings of the Internet arrangement of today. On the technical side there are issues of performance, reliability, scalability, security. Moreover societal, economical and business aspects have emerged. FI is an urgent and also structurally ideal arena for furthering the art of feminist technology creation. The FI discussions incorporate small, incremental evolutionary steps as well as complete redesigns. The rigorous frameworks for technology studies that have been developed within the feminist tradition can be tried out and applied to support interventions in the FI field. One of the techniques used in FI exploration is definition of scenarios. Scenarios can be used as starting points for technical innovation or used as illustrations of de facto technological appeals. One possibility is to extrapolate inner landscapes as evoked in feminist scholarship and ...
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