A weblog about new media and books. I make it in portugues for the brazilian publisher house ‘Editora Peirópolis’

about women’s digital work.pdf

Lace is a textile that exist since the beginning of times. It is technology, and a complicated one, filled with instructions, protocols, grids and patterns, methodes, movements, tiny stitches, and made by women in networked activity.
Computers are complex calculators that communicate. Women are complex beings, that like to communicate. Computer has protocols, patterns, grids, instructions. Women are famous for their capacity to talk on the telephone, for being the secretaries, the ones that made notations in encripted language for their bosses and very quick in type writers. They were the computers, making the calculations for researches and during war times.
Computers, the internet and women seem to be made for each other, but instead the statistics show that the opposite is true:
(EU (15 countries) Science and technology graduates: males 13.0 females 5.5).
Popular culture says computer technology is something for men.