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Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life.
Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life.
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This chapter represents a narrative, 'women and the Internet', as a women and technology origin story with a fixed beginning, a contested centre and an open ending. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virtual reality consumption, email experience, virtual look, goddess feminism, cyborg subject, computer ethics, domestic telephone, neighbourhood centre, computer gaming, virtual setting, technological artefacts, articulation work, information technology group, female users, virtual reality technologies, leisure practices, virtual systems, feminist film theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This chapter represents a narrative, 'women and the Internet', as a women and technology origin story with a fixed beginning, a contested centre and an open ending. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virtual reality consumption, email experience, virtual look, goddess feminism, cyborg subject, computer ethics, domestic telephone, neighbourhood centre, computer gaming, virtual setting, technological artefacts, articulation work, information technology group, female users, virtual reality technologies, leisure practices, virtual systems, feminist film theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Zed Books, Polity Press, Oxford University Press, Pluto Press, San Francisco, Seal Press, University of Minnesota Press, North Karelia, Games Movement, Indiana University Press, Purple Moon, Santa Monica, The Netherlands, Wired Women, Dactyl Nightmare, Journal of Communication, Open University Press, Thousand Oaks, Civil Liberties, Columbia University Press, Joost Flint, Lara Croft, Marleen Stikker, New Delhi New!
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- Nattering on the Net by Dale Spender on 6 pages
- Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle on 5 pages
- Feminism Confronts Technology by Judy Wajcman on page 205, page 239, and page 260
- Global Networks: Computers and International Communication by Linda M. Harasim on page 24, and page 26
- Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics by R. Connell on page 203, and page 258
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