Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet : Agency and Identity

, by Consalvo, Mia

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ISBN: 9780820461410 | 0820461415
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/2002

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Foreword

Steve Jones

Introduction: On the Internet, Women Matter

(20)

Mia Consalvo

Susanna Passonen

Part One: Defining Gender

Gender, Identity, and (the Limits of) Play on the Internet

(23)

Susanna Paasonen

Windows on the Web: The Female Body and the Web Camera

(18)

Kate O'Riordan

Internet and the Construction of Gender: Female Professionals and the Process of Doing Gender

(28)

Johanna Dorer

Women's Internet Sites: A Search for Design Strategies to Engage the Female Viewer

(21)

Noemi Sadowska

Part Two: Addressing Women

Selling the Internet to Women: The Early Years

111

(28)

Mia Consalvo

``There's `O Place' Like Home'': Searching for Community on Oprah.com

139

(29)

Leda Cooks

Mari Castaneda Paredes

Erica Scharrer

Join Now, Membership Is Free: Women's Web Sites and the Coding of Community

168

(23)

Karen E. Gustafson

Part Three: Everyday Uses

``So I Got It Into My Head That I Should Set Up My Own Stable ...'': Creating Virtual Stables on the Internet as Girls' Own computer Culture

191

(20)

Virpi Oksman

Women Veterans and the Net: Using Internet Technology to Network and Reconnect

211

(19)

Jennifer M. Tiernan

Trouble, Pleasure, and Tactics: Anonymity and Identity in a Lesbian Chat Room

230

(25)

Jamie M. Poster

Part Four: Gender, Agency, and New Media

Extending the School Day: Gender, Class, and the Incorporation of Technology in Everyday Life

255

(20)

S. Elizabeth Bird

Jane Jorgenson

Gendered Agency in Information Society: On Located Politics of Technology

275

(17)

Marja Vehvilainen

Interactive Television in the Everyday Lives of Young Couples

292

(19)

Liesbet van Zoonen

Chris Aalberts

About the Contributors

311

(4)

Index

315

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