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Licence: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - I think "Hedging" could be a Feminist Issue in Software Engineering
AU - Ashcroft, Alice
PY - 2022/6/27
Y1 - 2022/6/27
N2 - When it comes to software engineering and the development life-cycle, there are a number of opportunities for under-represented groups, gender being the focus of this paper, for decisions to be affected by language. Considering existing linguistics research surrounding gendered language, specifically "Hedging", alongside various stages of the development life-cycle, this paper poses that "Hedging" should be seen as a feminist issue in software engineering, and presents five areas for further research to uncover the potential negative effects it is having, and what can be done to mitigate these. This paper focuses on the subtleties in conversation, and how conversation takes place, building on Feminist Conversation Analysis, Feminist Methodologies, and Software Engineering Methodologies.
AB - When it comes to software engineering and the development life-cycle, there are a number of opportunities for under-represented groups, gender being the focus of this paper, for decisions to be affected by language. Considering existing linguistics research surrounding gendered language, specifically "Hedging", alongside various stages of the development life-cycle, this paper poses that "Hedging" should be seen as a feminist issue in software engineering, and presents five areas for further research to uncover the potential negative effects it is having, and what can be done to mitigate these. This paper focuses on the subtleties in conversation, and how conversation takes place, building on Feminist Conversation Analysis, Feminist Methodologies, and Software Engineering Methodologies.
U2 - 10.48340/ecscw2022_ep01
DO - 10.48340/ecscw2022_ep01
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
T3 - Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies
BT - ECSCW 2022: 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
PB - European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
ER -