The Gendered Digital Assistant: An Evaluation of Their Use in Domestic Spaces

Abstract

This paper was originally written for Caitlin McKinney’s CMNS 455W course,  Women and New Information Technologies.  The assignment asked students to write on a topic that relates to Feminist Science and Technology Studies (or Feminist STS); that is, relating how science and technology is socially constructed and subordinates women, and other marginalized groups such as the LGBTQ2+ community.  In other words, it is a feminist perspective that fundamentally critiques gender binaries baked into our day-to-day technologies.  The paper uses APA citation style.