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Agents of Change

Virtuality, Gender, and the Challenge to the Traditional University

Editors:

  1. Gabriele Kreutzner
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  2. Heidi Schelhowe
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Part of the book series: Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur" (SIFU, volume 9)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Gabriele Kreutzner, Heidi Schelhowe
      Pages 7-22

  3. Research and Knowledge in the Information Age: Selected Feminist Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    3. Open and Virtual Universities

      • Gill Kirkup
      Pages 43-56

    6. ICT-Representations as Transformative Critical Rooms

      • Cecile K. M. Crutzen
      Pages 87-106

  4. The vifu Project: Inside and Outside Assessments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    6. The Users’ vifu

      • Melanie Dunn, Mara-Anahi Kuhl
      Pages 155-159

    7. Information Architecture and Networks at vifu — Continuation of the Project in 2002

      • Maika Büschenfeldt, Birte Plutat, Heidi Schelhowe, Isabel Zorn
      Pages 161-177

  5. From Traditional University to Networks of Shared Knowledge and Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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About this book

The university as we have known it is undergoing massive transformations. This observation is commonly made these days during discussions of the future of our academic system(s). While it certainly holds true for the "Western" strong­ holds of our globe, it likewise applies to a wide variety of marginalized contexts and locations beyond. For historical reasons, universities and academic systems differ considerably from place to place. However, the transformative process under analysis here is driven by major economic and technological develop­ ments generally subsumed under the label 'globalization'. And although, the contemporary world deliberately puts the stress on change and 'the new', the traditional academic systems are challenged by the great juggernaut of global­ ized transformation on the level of the particular and the local. In our view, the ongonig changes are neither reason for celebration nor de­ spair. What motivated us to put this volume together was our curiosity about these processes of change, as well as our awareness of their significance, our partisanship for particular directions that they mayor may not take and, last but not least, our insight into their complexities and heterogeneous, even contradic­ tory, outcomes.
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Keywords

  • Computer
  • Design
  • Geschlechterforschung
  • Internet
  • Nation
  • New Media
  • Transnational
  • education
  • gender
  • gender Studies
  • globalization
  • information society
  • interaction
  • interculturality
  • transformation
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About the authors

Dr. Gabriele Kreutzner, Interenationale Frauenuniversität Hannover;
Dr. Heidi Schelhowe, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agents of Change

  • Book Subtitle: Virtuality, Gender, and the Challenge to the Traditional University

  • Editors: Gabriele Kreutzner, Heidi Schelhowe

  • Series Title: Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91354-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3492-2Published: 30 September 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-91354-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 224

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology

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