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Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet investigates the forms and codes of the Internet as a popular medium and the ways in which women figure as users, content producers, and target audiences. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this book addresses issues of gendered identity and agency in the wider framework of consumer culture and uses of new media. Individual chapters explore personal and commercial web sites for women, constructions of lesbian identity, communities of female consumers and Vietnam veterans, women's web cam sites, educational experiences and information society agendas, the possibilities of design, conceptions of digital television, as well as wider media attention to the Internet and women. These case studies provide rich insights into the uses of the Internet as an everyday medium and the varying locations and forms of its gendered use.

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This eclectic international collection provides a needed infusion of energy into the study of gender and the Internet. The contributors use a range of theories, approaches, and research sites to collectively demonstrate how much gender matters to Internet users in their everyday lives, and how much it should matter to anyone concerned with social dimensions of the Internet. (Nancy Baym, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas) This book is a highly worthwhile collection of essays on women in new media. It avoids much of the problems of earlier work that either celebrated cyber-space as a feminine domain or vilified it as a masculine space of expanded patriarchal culture. 'Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet' is refreshing by comparison in exploring the diversity of women's various practices in cyber-space as well as the differences among the women who are online. This book is warmly recommended to those interested in this important topic. (Mark Poster, Director and Professor of Film Studies, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine)

« This book is a highly worthwhile collection of essays on women in new media. It avoids much of the problems of earlier work that either celebrated cyber-space as a feminine domain or vilified it as a masculine space of expanded patriarchal culture. 'Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet' is refreshing by comparison in exploring the diversity of women's various practices in cyber-space as well as the differences among the women who are online. This book is warmly recommended to those interested in this important topic.

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The Editors: Mia Consalvo is Assistant Professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. Her research explores intersections of gender, popular culture, and new media, including the Internet as well as computer and video games. She has published articles in Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Women's Studies in Communication, and Journal of Communication Inquiry. Susanna Paasonen is a researcher at the Department of Media Studies, University of Turku, Finland, where she recently completed her Ph.D. on the popularization and gendering of the Internet and genealogies of popular cyberdiscourse. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of two monographs and the editor of three books on media studies and feminist theory.

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