GENDER ISSUES IN ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS This bibliography was posted to culist.communet on March 30,1993 as part of a paper on "Gender Issues in Online Communications", by Hoai-An Truong, ( Copyright 1993, Written for Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 3, February, 1993. Version 4.1). " BAWIT ['bay-wit'], Bay Area Women in Telecommunications, is a group of women working with telecom, organized to discuss women's professional and social issues and computer networking, including industry gender bias. By doing so, BAWIT seeks to advance the state of women who use telecom, to provide a higher profile for women in the industry, and to encourage women and girls in their exploration of computers in general, and in particular, telecom." Contact information for Bay Area Women in Telecom e-mail: bawit-request@igc.apc.org SAMPLINGS FROM AVAILABLE RESEARCH Benston, Margaret Lowe. "Feminism and System Design: Questions of Control." The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1989, pp. 205-223. Brusca, F. and Canada, K. "The Technological Gender Gap: Evidence and Recommendations for Educators and Computer-Based Instruction Designers." Educational Technology Research and Development, 1991, 39, no. 2:43-51. Carmichael, Joan. "In a Different Format: Connecting Women, Computers, and Education Using Gilligan's Framework." Masters thesis. Concordia University, Canada, 1991. Durndell, A. "Why Do Female Students Tend to Avoid Computer Studies?" Glasgow College, Scotland: Research in Science & Technological Education, 1990 Vol. 8 (2) p. 163-170. Erlich, Reese. "Sexual Harassment an issue on the high-tech frontier." MacWeek, December 14, 1992, p. 20-21. Edwards. Paul. "The Army and the Microworld: Computers and the Politics of Gender Identity." Signs v.16, n.1 (1990):102-127. Edwards, Paul. "Gender and the Cultural Construction of Computing," adapted from "From 'Impact' to Social Process: Case Studies of Computers in Politics, Society, and Culture, Chapter IV-A," Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (Beverly Hills: Sage Press, forthcoming). Fish, Marian C.; Gross, Alan L.; Sanders, Jo S. "The Effect of Equity Strategies on Girls' Computer Usage in School." Computers in Human Behavior. CUNY, Queens College, 1986 Vol. 2(2) 127-134. Frissen, Valerie. "Trapped in Electronic Cages?: Gender and New Information Technologies in the Public and Private Domain: an Overview of Research." Media, Culture and Society v. 14 (1992):31-49. Greenbaum, Joan. "The Head and the Heart: using Gender Analysis to Study the Social Construction of Computer Systems." Computers & Society v.20, n.2 (June 1990):9-17. Halberstam, Judith. "Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine." Feminist Studies v.17, n.3 (Fall 1991):439-459. Harrington, Susan Marie. "Barriers to Women in Undergraduate Computer Science: the Effects of the Computer Environment on the Success and Continuance of Female Students." Dissertation. Oregon: University of Oregon, 1990. Kirk, D. "Gender Issues in Information Technology as Found in Schools: Authentic/Synthetic/Fantastic?" Educational Technology, Apr 1992, 32; 28-31. Kirkup, Gill. "The Social Construction of Computers: Hammers or Harpsichords?" Inventing Women: Science, Technology, and Gender. Ed. Kirkup; Keller. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, p. 267-281. Kramarae, Cheris; Jeanie Taylor. "Electronic Networks: Safe For Women?" The Electronic Salon: Feminism Meets Infotech: in connection with the 11th Annual Gender Studies Symposium. Speech Communication, and Sociology, March 1992. [This is a draft of a paper prepared for the Gender, Technology and Ethics conference to be held in Lulea, Sweden, June 1-2, 1992]. Kramer, Pamela E.; Sheila Lehman. "Mismeasuring Women: a Critique of Research on Computer Ability and Avoidance." Sign3hv.16, n.1 (1990):158- 172. Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. Addison-Wesley, 1991. Lawton, George. "The Network is the Medium." MacWeek, December 14, 1992, p. 20. MIT Computer Science Female ate Students and Research Staff. "Barriers to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Science at MIT." MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, February 1983. Nelson, C. S. and Watson, J. A. "The Computer Gender Gap: Children's Attitudes, Performance, and Socialization." Journal of Education Technology, 4:345-3, 1990-91. Ong, Aihwa. "Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age." Feminist Studies 13 (Fall 1987):609-626. Pearl, A.; Pollack, M. E.; Riskin, E.; Thomas, B.; Wolf, E.; Wu, A. "Becoming a Computer Scientist: A Report by the ACM Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Science." Communications of the ACM, Nov 1990, v33 n11 p47(11). Perry, Ruth; Lisa Greber. "Women and Computers: An Introduction." Signs v. 16, n.1 (1990): 74-101. Rakow, Lana. Impact of New Technologies on Women as Producers & Consumers of Communication in the U.S. and Canada. Paris: Unesco, 1991. Spertus, Ellen. "Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists?" Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, 1991. Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand, New York: Ballantine Books, 1990. Turkle, Sherry; Seymour Papert. "Epistemological Pluralism: Style and Voices Within the Computer Culture." Signs v. 16, n.1 (1990):128-157. van Zoonen, Liesbet. "Feminist Theory and Information Technology." Media, Culture and Society v. 14 (1992):9-29. Varley, Pamela. "What's Really Happening in Santa Monica." IMPACT!, December 1992.