Women@Internet

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Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace

This is the first major analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the internet across the globe. Search and download computer ebooks Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace for free.
Many of the books in this section are concerned with the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their role in development. Of particular interest in this regard is Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa. Another new title, Changing Lenses, looks at media policies and media monitoring, while Women's Voices on Fire documents how that radio service has provided a space for women's voices.Bringing together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers, media analysts and women's movement activists, this collection examines the type of cyberculture women are creating -- and the barriers they face. It puts forward concrete proposals for increasing women's engagement with the new communications technologies. Author: Harcourt, Wendy ISBN-10: 1856495727. Download Women@Internet computer ebooks
It brings together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers and media analysts and women's movement activists to ask: are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves?

The book maps both the social, economic and political biases in which the culture of cyberspace is embedded as well its revolutionary potential explores women's knowledge of and access to the Internet across the world and puts forward concrete proposals for increasing women's engagement with the new communication technologies shows how the Internet can create new spaces for women working within radically different cult

Women Internet Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace, 9781856495721

Women Internet Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace, ISBN-13: 9781856495721, ISBN-10: 1856495728

Categories: Computer networks->Social aspects, Women->Online resources, Computer networks->Social aspects. Contributors: Wendy Harcourt - Editor. Format: Hardcover

This is the first major analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the Internet across the globe. It brings together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers, media analysts and women's movement activists to ask: are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves? The first to break with the tendency--still dominant, even in feminist technology studies--to restrict analysis of cyberspace to the developed world, this book will prove indispensable.

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t brings together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers and media analysts and women's movement activists to ask: are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves?

The book maps both the social, economic and political biases in which the culture of cyberspace is embedded as well its revolutionary potential explores women's knowledge of and access to the Internet across the world and puts forward concrete proposals for increasing women's engagement with the new communication technologies shows how the Internet can create new spaces for women working within radically different cult