Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:41:30 +0000
From: radhika_gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
Subject: Re: women or men software programmers?


Hi,
I am trying to understand how the labor of
programmers is used within the transnational/global economy and am
looking
for individual programmers who will converse with me on these issues. We
currently a small forming group of individuals who are beginning to
exchange narratives and stories. I am also looking at women programmers
specifically and the problems and/or
opportunities for women within the technology service industries - and
how
home/work and identity are negotiated in relation to immigration and
technology
work both for programmers that physically travel into the US or
elsewhere  and those that "travel" by performing programming tasks
(outsourced/offshored labor) from home-nations. Input will be treated
with confidentiality and respect. This is an ongoing project.

If certain individuals end up getting more involved in this project, I
will also give you the option of being a named co-author in some of the
papers/presentations that result.

I am basically a "qualitative" and "critical" (that is, postcolonial,
feminist, cultural studies etc... perspectives inform my research)
researcher, so my "methods"
and theoretical approach are shaped by this.Since what I am seeking
right
now are "narratives," stories, in relation to programmers and travelling

technology workers, I have a set of general issues/questions I would
like
you take a look at and will email you if you wish to be a part of this
project. So if interested, contact me off-list at radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org.

thanks,
r
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Radhika Gajjala
http://www.cyberdiva.org
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"We do not invent our intellectual neighborhoods...;
we consciously build them" - Alexander and Mohanty (1997)