Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality, 2024
Year: 2024
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Gender Equitable Interactions in Online Videoconferencing: Exploring the Dynamics of Power Relationships in Corporate Online Meetings
Antonia Heil
ABSTRACT:
This presentation explores how gendered, intersectionally shaped, power dynamics are manifested in digitally mediated work relations in online group meetings. Gendered interactions in face to face meetings are well researched, but affordances of digital environments clearly mediate the processes of in/equality. We are interested in the benefits and drawbacks the online technology brings to power relations in corporate meetings. The presented study is the first of three studies in the international research project “GEiO – Gender Equitable Interactions Online”. A key aim of GEiO is to build new transnational evidence on the currently unexplored ways in which digital videoconferencing innovations can be used to support or resist gender inequity at work. In order to explore gendered interactions in online meetings, for study 1 a specially developed version of Conversation Analysis was applied to analyze recorded company-internal videoconferences. The research design and preliminary results of study 1, as well as the overall aims and objectives of the international and interdisciplinary research project will be presented.
keywords: Gender, equality, power relationships, videoconferencing, conversation analysis