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eGirls, eCitizens
Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices
Author(s)
Bailey, Jane
Steeves, Valerie
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
the egirls project; privacy; technology; digitally networked society; equality; gendered gaze; young women; girls; digitized communications; identity; Cyberbullying; Facebook; Social media; Social networking service; SurveillanceDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_569530ISBN
9780776622576OCN
945782982Publisher website
https://press.uottawa.ca/Publication date and place
2015Series
Law, Technology and Media,Classification
Social and ethical issues
Technology: general issues