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 TheCHIVE
- 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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Is Facebook Killing Blogs?
People seem to love to publish. They publish their thoughts, photos, poems, videos and favourite songs. It could be on their own blogs or on Facebook. In fact, updating your status on Facebook can also be called blogging. Blogging is … Continue reading
Blogging?
We’ve been talking about blogging during the lectures and I started to think why people actually blog. The main idea of course, is to share thoughts, ideas and opinions but blogging can also be used as a “tool” to affect … Continue reading
Who Blogs?
After reading the articles about blogging in the first lecture, I started to further look at the question of who blogs? I blog. I started a blog about my time here in Finland as a way to keep my friends … Continue reading
Should Anonymous be gendered ?
If I’m saying « Anonymous » I guess that every body have in mind the same image : an empty black suit, or the mask of Guy Fawkes. The basic idea is that everybody could be behind this image, everybody could be Anonymous. … Continue reading