Karusala, Naveena and Ismail, Azra and Bhat, Karthik S and Gautam, Aakash and Pendse, Sachin R and Kumar, Neha and Anderson, Richard and Balaam, Madeline and Bardzell, Shaowen and Bidwell, Nicola J and Densmore, Melissa and Kaziunas, Elizabeth and Piper, Anne Marie and Raval, Noopur and Singh, Pushpendra and Toombs, Austin and Verdezoto, Nervo and Wang, Ding (2021) The Future of Care Work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and Practice, Proceedings of 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 23-27 October 2021, ACM.
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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.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Subjects: | Theory of computation Applied computing Applied computing > Life and medical sciences Applied computing > Life and medical sciences > Consumer health Applied computing > Life and medical sciences > Health care information systems |
| Alternate Locations: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481734 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2023 15:15 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2023 15:15 |
| URI: | https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1568 |
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