eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives.
Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore the interplay of factors that shape online environments characterized by a gendered gaze and too often punctuated by sexualized violence.
Perhaps most importantly, this collection offers first-hand perspectives collected from girls and young women themselves, providing a unique window on what it is to be a girl in today’s digitized society.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-493) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2015.
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.23082
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780776622590 9780776622576
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- HQ1178
- LCCN Item number
- E45 2015eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
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- 1 electronic text (506 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00931551 (OCoLC)921534214 (CaOOCEL)450290
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction: Cyber-Utopia? Getting Beyond the Binary Notion of Technology as Good or Bad for Girls 12
- Part I: It’s Not That Simple: Complicating Girls’ Experiences on Social Media 30
- Chapter I: A Perfect Storm: How the Online Environment, Social Norms, and Law Shape Girls’ Lives 32
- Chapter II: Revisiting Cyberfeminism: Theory as a Tool for Understanding Young Women’s Experiences 66
- Chapter III: Thinking Beyond the Internet as a Tool: Girls’ Online Spaces as Postfeminist Structures of Surveillance 94
- Part II: Living in a Gendered Gaze 118
- Chapter IV: The Internet and Friendship Seeking: Exploring the Role of Online Communication in Young, Recently Immigrated Women’s Social Lives 120
- Chapter V: “She’s Just a Small Town Girl, Living in an Online World”: Differences and Similarities between Urban and Rural Girls’ Use of and Views about Online Social Networking 140
- Chapter VI: “Pretty and Just a Little Bit Sexy, I Guess”: Publicity, Privacy, and the Pressure to Perform “Appropriate” Feminity on Social Media 164
- Chapter VII: Girls and Online Drama: Aggression, Surveillance, or Entertainment? 186
- Chapter VIII: BBM Is Like Match.com: Social Networking and the Digital Mediation of Teens’ Sexual Cultures 210
- Part III: Dealing with Sexualized Violence 238
- Chapter IX: Rape Threats and Revenge Porn: Defining Sexual Violence in the Digital Age 240
- Chapter X: Motion to Dismiss: Bias Crime, Online Communication, and the Sex Lives of Others in NJ v. Ravi 264
- Chapter XI: Defining the Legal Lines: eGirls and Intimate Images 292
- Chapter XII: “She’s Such a Slut!”: The Sexualized Cyberbullying of Teen Girls and the Education Law Response 318
- Part IV: eGirls, eCitizens 348
- Chapter XIII: Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship: Approaches to Girls’ Online Experiences 350
- Chapter XIV: Security and Insecurity Online: Perspectives from Girls and Young Women 372
- Chapter XV: Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use 396
- Chapter XVI: I Want My Internet! Young Women on the Politics of Usage-Based Billing 422
- Conclusion: Looking Forward 446
- Bibliography 450
- Contributors 506
- Index 514