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Virtual gender : technology, consumption, and identity
Title
Virtual gender : technology, consumption, and identity / edited by Eileen Green and Alison Adam.
ISBN
0203977017
0415233143
0415233151
9780203977019
9780415233149
9780415233156
0415233143
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2001.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. 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. A line-up of authors from around the world looks at the gender and technology issues related to leisure, pleasure and consumption, identity and self. Their research is set against a backcloth of renewed interest in citizenship and ethics and h.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Virtual gender. New York : Routledge, 2001
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Women and the Internet : the natural history of a research project / Anne Scott, Lesley Semmens and Lynette Willoughby
Gender in email-based co-operative problem-solving / Greg Michaelson and Margit Pohl
Lives and livelihoods in the technological age / Kate White, Leslie Regan Shade and Jennifer Brayton
Becoming a technologist : days in a girl's life / Linda Stepulevage
Theoretical reflections on networking in practice : the case of women on the net / Gillian Youngs
Understanding computer game cultures : a situated approach / Simeon J. Yates and Karen Littleton
Visual pleasure in textual places : gazing in multi-user object-oriented worlds / Michèle White
Strange yet stylish headgear : virtual reality consumption and the construction of gender / Nicola Green
Technology, leisure and everyday practices / Eileen Green
Men, masculinities and 'mundane' technologies : the domestic telephone / Maria Lohan
Cyberstalking : gender and computer ethics / Alison Adam
Gender in the design of the digital city of Amsterdam / Els Rommes, Ellen van Oost and Nelly Oudshoorn
Social geography of gender switching in virtual environments on the Internet / Lynne D. Roberts and Malcolm R. Parks
Camera with a view : JenniCAM, visual representation and cyborg subjectivity / Krissi M. Jimroglou
Cyborgs or goddesses? : Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age / Elaine Graham.
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