The Future of Care Work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and PracticeShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2021, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021, p. 338-342Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human- Computer Interaction (HCI) have long studied how technology can support material and relational aspects of care work, typically in clinical healthcare settings. More recently, we see increasing recognition of care work such as informal healthcare provision, child and elderly care, organizing and advocacy, domestic work, and service work. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored long-present tensions between the deep necessity and simultaneous devaluation of our care infrastructures. This highlights the need to attend to the broader social, political, and economic systems that shape care work and the emerging technologies being used in care work. This leads us to ask several critical questions: What counts as care work and why? How is care work (de)valued, (un)supported, or coerced under capitalism and to what end? What narratives drive the push for technology in care work and whom does it benefit? How does care work resist or build resilience against and within oppressive systems? And how can we as researchers advocate for and with care and caregivers? In this one-day workshop, we will bring together researchers from academia, industry, and community-based organizations to reflect on these questions and extend conversations on the future of technology for care work.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021. p. 338-342
Keywords [en]
Care work, Feminist political economy, Social reproduction, Groupware, Health care, Human computer interaction, Human engineering, Interactive computer systems, Medical computing, Child care, Computer-supported cooperative works, Domestic services, Domestic work, Elderly care, Political economy, Support materials, Cell proliferation
National Category
Other Engineering and Technologies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313136DOI: 10.1145/3462204.3481734Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118569677OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313136DiVA, id: diva2:1670103
Conference
Companion Publication of the 2021 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021, Virtual Event, USA, October 23-27, 2021
Note
Part of proceedings ISBN: 9781450384797
QC 20220615
2022-06-152022-06-152025-02-18Bibliographically approved