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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preparation for the class 18.4.2012
Read Kendell, Lori (2000) “OH NO! I’M A NERD!”: Hegemonic Masculinity on an Online Forum. Gender & Society 14 (2). (pp. 256-274) and Thiel, Shayla Marie(2005) “IM me” Identity Construction and Gender negotiation in the World of Adolescent Girls and … Continue reading
21.3 Feminist perspective
You can find today’s presentation here. Today’s theme: Feminist perspective, feminism, cyberfeminism. Next week’s class: cyberfeminism and online ethnography (prepare by rereading Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson Elm (2007) Cyberfeminism. In Northern Lights. Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic … Continue reading
Preparations for next class (21.3.2012)
Read: Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson Elm (2007) Cyberfeminism. In Northern Lights. Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic Context. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (pp. 1-30) Write a definition for: feminism, identity, gender, sexuality, community, femininity/masculinity, culture, power. Bring … Continue reading