“Outcast Among Outcasts”: Gender and Leadership in a Mac Users Group
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
Studies about women and technology continue to lament the lack of women involved in the design process, a key area for leadership development in technologically based organizations (Liker, Hadda, & Karlin, 1999; Lorber, 1993; Stein, 2006; Turkle, 1997; Wajcman, 2000). In cases where marginal technologies and members (e.g., Macintosh and females) are present, how participating members discursively and materially construct leadership identities among a myriad of other possibilities (e.g., expert technology user or programmer, student, technological consultant) deserves attention. We used a grounded theory approach to analyze interviews, field observations, and online archival data. Findings indicate that members constructed competing and often contradictory Macintosh and gendered identities and identifications as well as tension-filled micropractices that both replicate and disrupt the gendered order.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Women & Language, v. 30, issue 1, p. 32-45
Scholar Commons Citation
Anderson, W. K. Z. and Buzzanell, Patrice M., "“Outcast Among Outcasts”: Gender and Leadership in a Mac Users Group" (2007). Communication Faculty Publications. 765.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/765
