By Alison Adam, Eileen Green
As but there was rather little released on women's actions in terms of new electronic applied sciences. digital Gender brings jointly theoretical views from feminist conception, the sociology of expertise and gender experiences with good designed empirical reports to throw new gentle at the effect of ICTs on modern social life.A line-up of authors from worldwide seems on the gender and know-how concerns regarding rest, excitement and intake, identification and self. Their learn is decided opposed to a backcloth of renewed curiosity in citizenship and ethics and the way those ideas are recreated in an online scenario, really in neighborhood settings.With chapters on topics starting from gender-switching online, desktop video games, and cyberstalking to using the family phone, this stimulating assortment demanding situations the stereotype of girl as a passive sufferer of expertise. It bargains new methods of the numerous dimensions during which ICTs may be stated to be gendered and should be a wealthy source for college students and lecturers during this increasing box of analysis.
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It can be concluded that the Internet is a flexible technology that can be shaped to a certain extent by the people who use it. However, it is difficult to formulate consistent hypotheses based on the ambiguous results of the scientific literature. On the one hand, one might expect computer-mediated interaction to be similar to face-to-face communication; on the other hand one might conclude that the lack of physical, bodily presence of individuals leads to a weakening of gender roles. In our 1995 investigation of email-based co-operative problem-solving (Pohl and Michaelson 1997) we found no important gender differences in co-operation within the overall group.
Still, there is one interesting phenomenon: five women answered all of their partner’s questions but only one man answered all those of his partner. It is also interesting to look at single conversations and analyse whether they conform to gender stereotypes or not. In our study, there were two typically woman to woman conversations, one from 1995 and one from 1998. In both conversations, extremely few messages were sent and few questions were asked. Apart from that, the discussions are rather different.
Quantitative analysis Text analysis Email is unlike other forms of written language in that there is a tendency to use speechand note-like constructs as well as more formal phrases and sentences. Here, all the words in a construct that is principally about one category are assigned to that category but in a complex construct, like a multi-phrase sentence, sub-constructs may be allocated to different categories. Personal details inserted from ‘signature’ files at the end of messages have been ignored as they represent no effort on the part of the sender.