Reworking the Computer Age : Histories of Emotions, Work, and Gender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berth, Christiane.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.

Summary:

Taking a global perspective to the computer age reveals how work, gender, and emotions have shaped its history.Since the 1960s, workplaces have been key sites for the introduction of computers, transforming organizations, future imaginaries, and perceptions of self and others.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: Reworking the computer age

Toward the workplace

Workplace computers and new emotional regimes

Our contributions

Chapter overviews

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Talking about bugs: Male computer scientists and their emotional relationship with errors

Emotions, gender, and failure: New research perspectives

Concerns, fears, and new beginnings: Emotional communities as a self‑reflective view on software problems at the conference in Garmisch in 1968

The disintegration of the emotional community one year later: Anger, frustration, hurt feelings

Conclusion

Epilogue: The digital age and anxiety?

Telework in intellectual debates in the 1980s: Gendered visions of technology for the future society

Introduction

US futurists and the male notion of technology: The decentralized office as technological fix around 1980

Telework as a matter of women's work by the mid‑1980s: The interpretation of European feminist social scientists

German union women as emotional community and the fear of telework

De‑gendering of the telework debate in interdisciplinary research programs from the mid‑1980s onward

Telework and the co‑construction of gender and technology: A new theoretical approach by feminist STS‐thinkers

Archives

Euphoria, frustration, and shame: Emotional resonance in the digitization of work (1970s to 1990s) using SAP as an example

SAP as a driving force and a force driven

Emotions as practice

Euphoria and enthusiasm of first users

Emotional community of the "SAP family"

Frustration, suspicion, and shame on the part of the end users

Reframing emotions by shifting responsibility

Bibliography.

Innovation, gender, and emotional responses: The computerization of the Austrian Federal Railways, 1969-1991

Innovation, disruption, and strategic shifts

Gender dynamics and institutional change

Emotional responses to technological and social changes

Conclusions

The end of the typing pool: New technologies, old stereotypes, and emotional reactions to workplace change in British print media

Typing as women's work and the emergence of the typing pool in early‑to‑mid twentieth‐century Britain

Perceptions and realities of the typing pool

The trope of the typing pool and reactions to technological change

Channeling workplace sentiment: Phatic communion as regime and refuge in South Korea's computer age

Office computerization under automation

Electronic bulletin boards and civic‐consumer refuges

Groupware and the corporatization of democratic sociality

Ongoing dynamics between regime and refuge

The computerized office: Emotions, gender, and technology in Latin America, 1980-2000

The rise of the computerized office in Latin America

Adaptations: Infrastructure, language, and software

Destabilization: Emotions, gender, and technological change in office work

Encounters: Gendered representations of computerization

Connections and disconnections: Communication in the office, 1980-2000

The double‐edged drone: Gendered emotional responses, attitudes, and inequalities in Indonesia

The unequal landscape of drone technology

Gendered emotional responses to drones

Techno‐sophistication

Drones as a double‐edged sword

The intrusive and out‐of‐control drone

Conclusion.

Acknowledgements

Contributor biographies

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-8394-0139-9