Gender socialization

Gender socialization is the learning of gender roles not through biological factors but through social factors. Studies show that even when adults believe that they give the same respons to boys and girls, they are actually changing their behaviour according to what gender they believe a child to be. Infants learn gender by smelling and [...]

Tilbakemelding INFOMEVI 300 – høst 2005 Innlevering 20/10 2005

Kommentarerer fra Bjørnar:
Eg syns du har eit godt prosjekt her. Oppsettet ditt kan godt karakteriserast som eit eksperiment (gjerne kvasi-eksperiment). Problemet med tilfeldig utvalg kan ignorerast og det kan lett argumenterast for at det er vanskeleg å få det til annleis. Så får ein diskutere validitetsproblematikken rundt dette i prosjektskildringa og til slutt i masteroppgåva.
Hypotesen [...]

E-mail received Sunday 23 of October from KM

E-mail received Sunday 23 of October from Konrad Morgan
Hello IME,
As requested when we talked I have had a quick read of your blog -
With respect to your concerns about the experimental method – please have a look at this web page (and see that there are variations in methods)
http://www.holah.karoo.net/experimentalmethod1.htm

You might consider taking a [...]

Decreasing gender as a factor in ICT-learning? How games can affect motivation for computers in general

General problem:
Some computer activities are perceived as “gendered”. Chatting, e-mail and typewriting is concidered gender-neutral or feminine activities while programming, database and computer games are concidered masculine activities (Corneliussen, 2002). How boys and girls approach computing will depend on how they place themselves in the connotation of the computer activities they are supposed to perform. [...]

Second draft due tomorrow

Tomorrow I will publish the second draft of my project description, I’m currently working on it and it’s due tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock.

Method

I want to use sort of an experiment to collect data. I don’t know if it’s “acedemically legal” to say “sort of an experiment” but I will try to explain what I’ve been thinking, and maybe I can conclude with this being some sort of a method that will be approved of in an academic [...]

Why RuneScape…

I’va been asked why I’ve chosen RuneScape as “my” game. There are several reasons for this. First of all, it’s free, as a masterstudent I’m not well off with money Second it’s an internet game, and doesn’t require an installation, and third (and most important) it’s a roleplay. As far as I know [...]

For new readers…

This is a blog for my masters in information science. I will post my thoughts about the assignment I will start working on in January 2006, and some thoughts about the litterature I’m reading on the subject.
So far I’ve been thinking about what I want to find out, how I will collect data on the [...]

My blog – now in english!

It’s time to set the language of this blog to english. And readers, please be gentle, I’m not used to writing in english, and I promise – I am making an effort to get it right. I will use both clue to get the words right and Oxford advanced dictionnary. I hope my vocabulary will [...]

Etter samtale med Konrad Morgan

Etter anbefaling fra Bjørnar Tessem har jeg hatt en samtale med Konrad Morgan på Intermedia om oppgaven min som ser ut til å utvikle seg i en spennende retning. Jeg fikk tilbakemelding på at en klasse med så få elever som 20-30 stykker vil være et for lite utvalg av mennesker å gjøre en slik [...]