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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Category Archives: cyberfeminism
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
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
Online gamers
In this opportunity I’d like to write about something that really caught my attention while surfing in the 9gag website I was telling the other day. I ran into this post called “the videogame entertainment curve” and it attempts to … Continue reading
Online Fieldwork in LGBT Online Discussion Forum: an Experience
When I searched a discussion forum in internet for my online fieldwork I came across to the LGBT Indonesia website. It is an online discussion forum for LGBT community in Indonesia. This is interesting for me, since until now the … Continue reading
Identity Crisis?
I’m writing this blog with a question, or something that keeps me thinking. So it’s personal, but apparently I want to share it with others anyway. And that is the thing, where I’m thinking about. This paradox. Why are people … Continue reading
prezi from 28.3.2012
Here is a link to the prezi from last class about cyberfeminism and online ethnography.
Online privacy
We talked about online privacy and what is public in the web. Usually people think that everything is public in the web.