Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters

ISBN-13: 9780415233156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str.

Alison Adam; Eileen Green

Opis

The aim of this work is to provide an understanding of the ways in which gender is inscribed and reproduced through information and communication technologies (ICTs). An edited collection, it is organized in four sections: Identity and Self examines transgender identities and the increasingly common phenomenon of gender switching in virtual reality. Gendered Access and Experience of ICTs and the Internet looks at empirical research findings on gender and the Internet and the complexity of women's experiences of technology. Leisure, Pleasure and Consumption continues this theme within the leisure arena. Space, Time and Citizens in the Community investigates such issues as computer ethics, women's information technology groups and the political economy of time in the information society.

Spis treści

Introduction. Section One. Gendered Access and Experience of ICTs and the Internet Section Two, Leisure, Pleasure and Consumption Section Three. Citizens at Work and in the Community Section Four. Identity and Self: Gendered Play, Virtual Reality and Cyborgization

O autorze

Alison Adam, Eileen Green