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This paper discusses the domestication of ICTs in the UK, using a critical lens to focus in on ICT use by families and households drawing on a 5 year longitudinal study. Analysis concentrates on how ICTs are embedded into gendered households, how issues
of gendered technologies are manifested in the everyday experiences of women, enmeshing ICT use for work, study, and leisure
into domestic family life. The social, political, economic, and historical context is that of versions of inclusion in the
so-called information society—a debate that wavers between a somber and shining vision.

Year of Publication
2006
Secondary Title
Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems
Citation Key
696
DOI
10.1007/0-387-34588-4_12
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