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January 20, 2005
What a Bummer!
In 1991 or 1992 I wanted to write about the internet but wasn't sure what to say. In one of my first doc classes at McGill I was also asked to write about technology. So I chose a tech I was more than familiar with at that time: the diaper. Here's the paper I wrote and published, What a Bummer! The Social Shaping of the Diaper. It explores the social shaping of the diaper and includes some reflections as well on feminist perspectives on technology.
Posted by shade at January 20, 2005 03:03 PM
Comments
nice story...
Could that be a place for tech-related roaming around thought?
well...I'm trying to think about a subject for this course...
I wantetd to do something related to ecology.
informatics ecology...
but I don't know much how to probletamise it... these thema could be easyly quite too journalistic...
maybe, something around lowtech??? (simplicité volontaire, recycling...)
any diaper-like idea roaming around?
Anne
Posted by: Anne at January 24, 2005 01:41 AM
nice story...
Could that be a place for tech-related roaming around thought?
well...I'm trying to think about a subject for this course...
I wantetd to do something related to ecology.
informatics ecology...
but I don't know much how to probletamise it... these thema could be easyly quite too journalistic...
maybe, something around lowtech??? (simplicité volontaire, recycling...)
any diaper-like idea roaming around?
Anne
Posted by: Anne at January 24, 2005 01:43 AM