Unpacking the black box of IDA: standardisation and disappearing gender

Katherine Anne Blackburn Harrison

Unpacking the black box of IDA: standardisation and disappearing gender

Katherine Anne Blackburn Harrison

Institut for Kommunikation

Abstract

This chapter unpacks the contemporary ‘black box’ of a rescue services accident database by focusing on the processes of simplification, categorisation and ‘tidying-up’ that take place when processing data from emergency incidents. As such, I take a critical perspective on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the role that they play in mediating and sharing information between different stakeholders, and I do this here within the particular context of a gender equality project. In this chapter I present findings from a study of a web-based service known as IDA, which was designed to share information on accidents in Sweden with the aim of providing reliable information on risk and safety to the public, businesses and municipal organisations. IDA is a means of publishing online information about accidents that has previously been collected, processed and stored in a large, complex database.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Masculinities, gender equality and crisis management
Redaktører	Mathias Ericson, Ulf Mellström
Antal sider	14
Udgivelsessted	London
Forlag	Routledge
Publikationsdato	22 jul. 2016
Sider	91-104
Kapitel	6
ISBN (Trykt)	9781472477095
ISBN (Elektronisk)	9781315594149
Status	Udgivet - 22 jul. 2016

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