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Gendering new media theory: A forum
It all started with a blog post titled ‘Re-imagining democracy in (our own) male image‘. The post was an apt criticism against the two special editions that Re-public has published on ‘wiki politics’. This small forum is not an attempt to respond to the critique. After all, our past mistakes cannot really be corrected. Instead, our attempt is to begin exploring a theme that we had previously ignored: the intersections between gender and the new media. The forum will be completed, at this first stage, with a debate between Trebor Scholz and Paul Hartzog, but it will definitely be a first step for further publications on the challenges that gender poses for analyses of digital societies.
Rosalind Gill – From sexual objectification to sexual subjectification: The resexualisation of women’s bodies in the media
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The figure of the autonomous, active, desiring subject has become the dominant figure for representing young women via new media. But this sexual subjectification, Rosalind Gill argues, has turned out to be objectification in new and even more pernicious guise. |
Nelly Kambouri and Pavlos Hatzopoulos – The banality of blogging or how does the web affect the public-private dichotomy
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Is blogging the means by which the ‘feminine’ voices previously excluded from public discourse and kept hidden in the ‘private’ sphere, can now be released? Is blogging a means of affirming the public character of private practices, ask Kambouri and Hatzopoulos. |
Laura Robinson – Virtual structure vs. digital agency: Revolution, mediation, or replication?
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The growing research on the complicated facets of digital inequality refutes the claims by technodeterminists that the spread of information technologies automatically mitigates the effects of exclusion and deprivation, says Laura Robinson. |