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Today's Topics:
1. Postwar radar operators, electronic screens, and gender
(Bernard Geoghegan)
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:25:38 +0200
From: Bernard Geoghegan <bernardgeoghegan2010@u.northwestern.edu >
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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Postwar radar operators, electronic screens,
and gender
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Dear Members,
Does anyone happen to have any primary or secondary source references on the role of gender in defining the radar operator and other users of electronic interfaces/screens of the 1950s and 1960s? At first I thought that these devices and this work were conceived with male users in mind. Photographs and films of operators of SAGE-type systems mostly depict male soldiers. However, I?ve run across two popular articles from the mid 50s that seem to show women-identifying users working as radar operators. I wonder if they?re typical, if they reflect a broader diversity of ?operators? of the emerging electronic interfaces of the period:
https://books.google.se/books?id=oN0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112&lpg= PA112&dq=volscan+radar&source= bl&ots=VCDYA-8THX&sig= tTkxbof6EM5YSrARAEIJ-dnWMy4& hl=en&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwiw9cy3m6PaAhXQZpoKHXsmA z4Q6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q= volscan%20radar&f=false
http://www.rfcafe.com/references/popular- electronics/radar-tames-wild- blue-yonder-popular- electronics-november-1956.htm
This being a key site where early theories of HCI and ?man-computer symbiosis? are worked out, I?m trying to figure out what role gender?marked or unmarked?played in the design of particular kinds of interfaces, conceptions of certain kind of users. Thanks for any feedback you can offer.
Best, b
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
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