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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Masculinities, gender equality and crisis management |
| Editors | Mathias Ericson, Ulf Mellström |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication date | 22 Jul 2016 |
| Pages | 91-104 |
| Chapter | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781472477095 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315594149 |
| Publication status | Published - 22 Jul 2016 |