Participation Literacy

This thesis is a technoscience construction, which will be more explicit in Part III, where I will also discuss my approach to technoscience. In this short section I will make a note about the gender approach in the LIC.

One of the two general focuses in gender research is the knowledge processes, theories and methodological approaches of science. It is this identification that is of particular interest at a technical faculty and which is one of the main starting points for our technoscientific gender research.

The other main general focus of gender research is women / men / sex / gender / gender and power relations. However, gender and gender relations are not as self-evident as objects of study within technoscience as they are in, say, social science.

As Lena Trojer writes in the quotation above, one of the main agendas for gender research within a technical faculty is about epistemology (Haraway, 1997, Wagner, 1994, Barad, 2003). This thesis operates within that frame. Men and Women are not primary categories here, knowledge is. The base, context and practises of that epistemology are presented and discussed in Part II. The construction is done in Part III by creating the Native Web Cyborg figure. I will be more explicit about technoscience and the cyborg figure in Part III