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37
Citations
14390
World Ranking
6052
National Ranking
986

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Judy Wajcman is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a focus on sociology, political science, cognitive neuroscience, urban studies, information systems and management, and human-computer interaction.

Their main topics of work cover areas such as mind wandering and attention, night-time city culture, digital economy and work transformation, personal information management and user behavior, information systems theories and implementation, and innovative human-technology interaction.

The following recent papers illustrate the range of their scholarly contributions:

  • Digital timescapes: technology, temporality and society, 2024, Space and Polity
  • Automation: Is It Really Different This Time?, 2022, Pluto Press eBooks

Other recent notable publications include:

  • Mind the gender gap: Inequalities in the emergent professions of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, 2023, New Technology Work and Employment
  • Optimizing Temporal Capital: How Big Tech Imagines Time as Auditable, 2022, American Behavioral Scientist
  • Issue Information, 2023, Gender Work and Organization

Judy Wajcman has frequently collaborated with coauthors including Ana Sofía Lopes, Stephanie Schreven, Paulina Segarra, Alice Wickström, and Grace Gao.

Their work has been published in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to Gender Work and Organization. Other frequent publication venues include New Technology Work and Employment, American Behavioral Scientist, Space and Polity, and Pluto Press eBooks.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Feminism Confronts Technology

    Judy Wajcman

  • The Social Shaping of Technology

    Donald A. MacKenzie;Judy Wajcman

  • The handbook of science and technology studies

    Edward J. Hackett;Olga Amsterdamska;Michael Lynch;Judy Wajcman

  • The Rush Hour: The Character of Leisure Time and Gender Equity

    Michael Bittman;Judy Wajcman

  • Feminist theories of technology

    Judy Wajcman

  • The social shaping of technology : how the refrigerator got its hum

    Donald A. MacKenzie;Judy Wajcman

  • Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management

    Judy Wajcman

  • Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

    Judy Wajcman

  • Families without Borders : Mobile Phones, Connectedness and Work-Home Divisions

    Judy Wajcman;Michael Bittman;Judith Elizabeth Brown

  • Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In What State is the Art?

    Judy Wajcman

  • Life in the fast lane? Towards a sociology of technology and time.

    Judy Wajcman

  • Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work

    Judy Wajcman;Emily Rose

  • FROM WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY TO GENDERED TECHNOSCIENCE

    Judy Wajcman

  • The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure:

    Michael Bittman;Judith E. Brown;Judy Wajcman

  • Appliances and their impact: the ownership of domestic technology and time spent on household work

    Michael Bittman;James Mahmud Rice;Judy Wajcman

  • The politics of working life

    Paul Edwards;Judy Wajcman

  • ‘Sameness’ and ‘Difference’ Revisited: Which Way Forward For Equal Opportunity Initiatives?

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  • Feminism Facing Industrial Relations in Britain

    Judy Wajcman

  • Automation: is it really different this time?

    Judy Wajcman

  • Addressing Technological Change: The Challenge to Social Theory

    Judy Wajcman

  • 'Anyone can edit', not everyone does: Wikipedia's infrastructure and the gender gap.

    Heather Ford;Judy Wajcman

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bittman
Michael Bittman University of New England
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po
Daniel Sarewitz
Daniel Sarewitz Arizona State University
Trevor Pinch
Trevor Pinch Cornell University
Wiebe E. Bijker
Wiebe E. Bijker Maastricht University
Harold Maurice Collins
Harold Maurice Collins Cardiff University
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Cornell University
Donald MacKenzie
Donald MacKenzie University of Edinburgh
Raewyn Connell
Raewyn Connell University of Sydney
Leslie Haddon
Leslie Haddon London School of Economics and Political Science

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