Weber, Jutta (Author)
Kröger, Fabian (Author)
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Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Pages: 15-23
Publication date: March 2018
Language: English
Edition Details: Special section on “Degendering the Driver”
This special section on “Degendering the Driver” explores how gender intervenes in the potential shift from a driver-centered to a driverless car culture. It focuses on representations of imagined futures—prototypes, media images, and popular discourses of driverless cars. Following the tradition of feminist cultural studies of technoscience, we ask in our introduction how these new techno-imaginaries of autonomous driving are gendered and racialized. We aim to explore if the future user of an autonomous car is gendered or degendered in the current media discourse. The four articles explore what kinds of images are used, what promises are made, and how the discourse about autonomous driving is influenced by gendered norms. Some authors emphasize that self-driving vehicles could encourage pluralized forms of masculinity. Nonetheless, all authors conclude that driverless cars alone will not degender the driver but rather encourage a multiplication of gendered and racialized technologies of mobility.
...MoreArticle Sarah Redshaw (March 2018) Combustion, Hydraulic, and Other Forms of Masculinity. An Essay Exploring Dominant Values and Representations of the Driver in Driverless Technology. Transfers (pp. 86-103).
Article Hildebrand, Julia M.; Mimi Sheller (2018) Media Ecologies of Autonomous Automobility Gendered and Racial Dimensions of Future Concept Cars. Transfers (pp. 64-85).
Article Dag Balkmar; Ulf Mellström (March 2018) Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles. A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility?. Transfers (pp. 44-63).
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