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Putting the gender back in digital housekeeping
Prior work examining technology usage and maintenance practices
in homes describes division of labor in terms of technical expertise.
In this paper, we offer a counter-narrative to this explanation for
engagement with Ubiquitous Computing. Using feminist theory as
an analytic lens, we examine how gender identity work is a
determining factor of whether and how people engage with digital
technologies in their homes. We present a model of gender &
technical identity co-construction