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Author : Mary Ann O'Farrell
Release : 1999
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 084/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Virtual Gender by : Mary Ann O'Farrell
Download or read book Virtual Gender written by Mary Ann O'Farrell. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores notions of gender fantasy across time and culture, expanding the concept of virtuality to include people and events in history
Author : Alison Adam
Release : 2005-08-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 058/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Virtual Gender by : Alison Adam
Download or read book Virtual Gender written by Alison Adam. This book was released on 2005-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life. A line-up of authors from around the world looks at the gender and technology issues related to leisure, pleasure and consumption, identity and self. Their research is set against a backcloth of renewed interest in citizenship and ethics and how these concepts are recreated in an on-line situation, particularly in local settings. With chapters on subjects ranging from gender-switching on-line, computer games, and cyberstalking to the use of the domestic telephone, this stimulating collection challenges the stereotype of woman as a passive victim of technology. It offers new ways of looking at the many dimensions in which ICTs can be said to be gendered and will be a rich resource for students and teachers in this expanding field of study.
Author : Alison Adam
Release : 2005-08-03
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 04X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Virtual Gender by : Alison Adam
Download or read book Virtual Gender written by Alison Adam. This book was released on 2005-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life. A line-up of authors from around the world looks at the gender and technology issues related to leisure, pleasure and consumption, identity and self. Their research is set against a backcloth of renewed interest in citizenship and ethics and how these concepts are recreated in an on-line situation, particularly in local settings. With chapters on subjects ranging from gender-switching on-line, computer games, and cyberstalking to the use of the domestic telephone, this stimulating collection challenges the stereotype of woman as a passive victim of technology. It offers new ways of looking at the many dimensions in which ICTs can be said to be gendered and will be a rich resource for students and teachers in this expanding field of study.
Author : Lory Hawkes
Release : 2000-11-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 884/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts by : Lory Hawkes
Download or read book The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts written by Lory Hawkes. This book was released on 2000-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual texts have emerged within the realm of the Internet as the predominant means of global communication. As both technological and cultural artifacts, they embody and challenge cultural assumptions and invite new ways of conceptualizing knowledge, community, identity, and meaning. But despite the pervasiveness of the Internet in nearly all aspects of contemporary life, no single resource has cataloged the ways in which numerous disciplines have investigated and critiqued virtual texts. This bibliography includes more than 1500 annotated entries for books, articles, dissertations, and electronic resources on virtual texts published between 1988 and 1999. Because of the multiple contexts in which virtual texts are studied, the bibliography addresses virtual communication across a broad range of disciplines and philosophies. It encompasses studies of the historical development of virtual texts; investigations of the many interdisciplinary applications of virtual texts and discussions of such legal issues as privacy and intellectual property. Entries are arranged alphabetically within topical chapters, and extensive indexes facilitate easy access.
Author : Anthony Elliott
Release : 2012-04-27
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies by : Anthony Elliott
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies written by Anthony Elliott. This book was released on 2012-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century. The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts to postmodern, psychoanalytic and feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised, and there are substantive sections looking at racial, ethnic, gendered, queer, consumerist, virtual and global identities. The Handbook also makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over identity-politics and its cultural consequences. From anti-globalization protestors to new ecological warriors, from devotees of therapy culture to defenders of international human rights: the culture of identity-politics is fast redefining the public political sphere. What future for politics is there after the turn to identity? Throughout there is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity with essays covering sociology, psychology, politics, cultural studies and history. The Handbook’s clear and direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences and humanities.
