Educational Computerizing as a Social Practice Edited by Hank Bromley and Michael W. Apple Hank Bromley gives and overview of the book in the introduction. He critiques the 3 major categories the book and introduces the authors for each chapter. Concentrates on specific classroom settings, addressing issues similar to those discussed in Part 1, but doing so via exploration of how those issues arise in given locations, is the major category for chapters 5-6. Chapter 1 by Zoe Sofie Zoe suggests that in general that computers are more likely to appeal to boys than girls.
Computer culture is associated with general masculinist and technoiscientific course of discovery.
The author illudes to the suggestion that males might fantasize of control over the submission to the machine itself. Having a connection to the structure, texture the feel of the material. Women and girls on the other hand a more careful and less compassionate what the physical computer may look like and are ironically distance themselves from the mythical approach that technophilic technicians and nerds exhibit. Girls can determine their own approach to the computer and deny the influence of passion that inspire them. Females are inspired by what the computer can accomplish, not by the emotional appeal of the features.