Internet Culture and Gender
This is a course in Women's Studies at Åbo Akademi University. The teacher of the course, Ann-Charlotte Palmgren, will post course information in the blog and students of the course will post blog entries about different aspects of internet culture and gender.
The aim of the course is to discuss and analyze internet culture, social media and gender from a feminist perspective. Through case studies the course examines how gender, sexuality, femininity and masculinity are constructed online (in for example blogs, Facebook, Second Life, massively multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, hotornot.com, chat forums and online dating sites). Through these case studies, the course will reflect on how the construction of gender and sexuality is related to questions of normativity and power.
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- apalmgre on Diablo III,is this just a gender RPG?
- apalmgre on Heteronormativity: Where you don’t even notice it.
- apalmgre on Gender differences on facebook behaviour?
- apalmgre on The Gender Ads Project
- apalmgre on Leftover Chinese women in youtube video
- apalmgre on Gender-swapping for beginners
- apalmgre on Gender portrayal in Gaming: Break.com versus Collegehumor.com
- mshewell on Heteronormativity: Where you don’t even notice it.
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Gamer Girls
When reading the comments on the Geek and Gamer girl video I noticed that there was quite some controversy, especially around the issue of geek women presenting themselves as sexy. Why is there criticism on sexy geeks? I think it … Continue reading
gamer girl manifesto
gamer girl manifesto Today I came across to a video in youtube, gamer girl manifesto by SexyNerdGirlPresents. It is a manifesto of female gamers telling not to sexualize them for their existence in the game world. It is not only … Continue reading
Natural and normal vs. unnatural and not normal
After looking at the wheel from Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex” article for the just in time #1 assignment, I felt as though 200 words was not enough to really look into the wheel and how it shapes the way society … Continue reading
An exemple of dating site : Geekmemore, or how to make business thanks to gendered behaviours.
I’m following the example and ‘ll talk about my online fieldwork because I think it’s a pity to not share what we’ve done. Besides, I did my work on a dating site, which overlap with the last class we had. … Continue reading
Self-help forums
When I was looking for a subject for my fieldwork research, I noticed that a lot of people post very personal things on the internet. I was surprised how many people, mainly women, would poor their hearts out in a … Continue reading
The Unmarried Woman
The other day I remembered a little news piece about French feminists wanting to remove the word ‘mademoiselle’ from the French vocabulary. I looked it up again and translated, it basically says that they want to get rid of the … Continue reading
Femininity Doesn’t Equal Weakness
One of the topics often discussed in this course is the development of femininity and masculinity on the internet, specifically on social media typed websites, blogs and in chat room settings. Many times on blogging sites such as Tumblr and … Continue reading
Sexuality
When I got in touch with the wheel diagram of Gayle Rubin I was really surprised about the society conceptions and some questions came up. Is sexuality fixed? Is there a way to eliminate sex hierarchy? Based on what do … Continue reading
Gender, Activism and Internet Culture
In a way this blog entry will move toward a field we haven’t really touched upon yet: activism, and a social media that haven’t been mentioned much in the class: twitter. If you are not familiar with twitter here is … Continue reading