Oost, E.C.J. van (Ellen)
Research profile
Ellen van Oost is associate professor in the field of gender and technology at the University of Twente). She has a degree in mathematical engineering (MSc.) and wrote a sociological-historical thesis on gender processes in the societal embedding of early computers. She is a member of the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture and participates in the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente. Currently she is coordinator of the Science, Technology and Society track in the master Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society.
Her present research is focussed on contemporary and future influences of ICT on society, with a special emphasis on gender relations. In her research she combines theoretical perspectives of script analysis and domestication analysis to gain inshigt into processes that shape both digital products as well as its (gendered) users. One of her latest projects concerned the development – in cooperation with TNO-STB - of a guide for policy makers and designers for developing web applications that explicitly aim to digitally and socially activate residents (especailly minority groups). The guide (in Dutch) can be found at: http://www.stb.tno.nl/dda/dda.htm.
Projects
Scientific publications (selection)
Oudshoorn, N., Brouns, M. and Oost, E.C.J. 2005. Diversity and Distributed Agency in the Design and Use of Medical Video-Communication Technologies. Inside the Politics of Technology. Edited by H. Harbers: Amsterdam University Press.available online
Oost, E.C.J. 2003. Materialized Gender. How Shavers configure the Users’ Femininity and Masculinity. In How Users Matter. The Co-construction of Users and Technology, edited by N. Oudshoorn and T. Pinch. Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 193-208
Rommes, R., van Oost, E.C.J. and Oudshoorn, N.E.J. 2001. Gender in the Design of the Digital City of Amsterdam. In Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity, edited by E. a. A. A. Green. London and New York: Routledge.
Ende, Jan van den, and Ellen van Oost. 2001. Making Women Count : Gender-Typing, Technology and Path Dependencies in Dutch Statistical Data Processing, 1900-1970. The European Journal of Women’s Studies 8 (4):491-510.available online
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
Brouns, M.L.M., van Oost, E.C.J., and N.E.J. Oudshoorn. 2000. Voorstudie ICT en maatschappij in verandering. In Raad voor Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling. Ver weg en dichtbij. Over hoe ICT de samenleving kan verbeteren. RMO advies 15. Den Haag: Raad voor Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling.
Smit, W.A., and Oost, E.C.J. van. 1999. De wederzijdse beïnvloeding van technologie en samenleving. Een Technology Assessment benadering. Bussum: Coutinho.
Teaching
- 162330 TA van ICT (INF/BIT/TEL)
- 162348 Digitalisering van de leefwereld (minor ICT en Maatschappij)
- 160523 Gender Inclusive Ontwerpen (TO)
