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See English after French text.. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:33:21 -0500 From: "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@CONNECTION.COM> To: CPI-UA Universal Access <cpi-ua@vcn.bc.ca> Subject: [CPI-UA]: Women and the Web: Volunteers sought for a study Send reply to: cpi-ua@vcn.bc.ca -------- Original Message -------- BESOIN DE PARTICIPANTES POUR UNE ÉTUDE SUR LES FEMMES ET LE WEB Christine Marton, candidate au doctorat à la faculté des études de l'information de l'Université de Toronto, recherche des participantes pour son étude sur l'utilisation d'Internet par des femmes. Les femmes de tout âge et de tous les milieux, qui travaillent dans le domaine de la technologie de l'information (c.-à-d. conceptrice de site Web, programmatrice ou administratrice/gestionnaire) sont invitées à participer à cette étude sur l'utilisation du Web reliée au travail qui durera 2 semaines. Cette étude est basée sur une étude antérieure portant sur la manière dont les travailleurs du savoir utilisent le Web pour rechercher de l'information externe (c.-à-d. de l'information sur les développements liées au domaine de la TI et de l'information sur les concurrents) dans le cadre de leur travail quotidien. Parce que la population sur laquelle a porté cette étude était principalement composée d'hommes, il est intéressant de voir si les femmes du secteur de la TI utilisent Internet de façon analogue ou différente, particulièrement en raison de l'augmentation rapide du nombre de femmes dans le secteur des TI. Pour le moment, on a recruté des participantes provenant de sociétés et d'établissements très divers, liés à la TI, y compris plusieurs de Bell Canada et de Hummingbird Communications. Pour en savoir plus ou pour participer à cette étude, visitez le site Web suivant : http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/phd/marton/WebStudy/ Invitation to participate in a Study on the use of the Web by Women in IT professions July - December, 2000 Participation Women of all ages and backgrounds working in Information Technology professions (i.e. website designer, programmer or administrator/manager) are invited to participate in a 2-week long study on work-related use of the Web. Experience using the Internet and World Wide Web is required. This study is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It represents a continuation of a previous study on how knowledge workers use the Web to seek external information (i.e. information about developments in the IT field and information about competitors) as part of their daily work (Choo, Detlor and Turnbull, 1998, 1999). Because the study population was primarily male, it is of interest to investigate whether women in the IT sector have similar or dissimilar patterns of Web use, particularly as the number of women in the IT sector grows rapidly. Data collection Your involvement entails - completing a questionnaire (30 minutes) - participating in a one-on-one interview with the researcher (which will be audiotaped), (1.5-2 hours) and the collection of Web tracker logs of your use of the Web at work to seek external information pertaining to the IT sector, as well as Web browser bookmark and history files. A note about the Web Tracker The WebTracker software is installed on your PC at work and tracks your Web movements (e.g. pressing Back, selecting Print from the File menu, clicking a hypertext link in a Web document) while you are using the Web browser. The tracker works best with Netscape 4.7 (and other versions of Netscape) but will also work with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0. The Web Tracker would collect data for a 2 week (10 working days) period. The Web Tracker can be turned OFF during a Web browsing session when you do not want the researcher to monitor some of your website visits. You also have the ability to edit the Web Tracker logs using a text editor like Notepad. In other words, you have control over what Web moves are captured by this software. Before you consent to its installation, please obtain permission from your employer. Confidentiality All data collected will remain confidential. Only aggregate data will be reported. This study has passed an ethics review conducted by the University of Toronto Office of Research Services. Contact Information Christine Marton Faculty of Information Studies 140 St. George Street Toronto, On. M5S 3G6 Canada Tel. 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