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Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality By: Janne Bromseth and Jenny Suden Purpose: Discussion on play and power of imagination in shifting
Internet cultures. Moves to contextualize notion of play, questioning credibility,
accountability, and genre. Finding inter-links between gender and sexuality and
subcultures online Ending with questions of body, spatiality, queer feminist
politics Cyberspace
Unbound by physical bodies Create/recreate yourself, allowing for flexible gender identity Experimental and liberating
Cyberfeminist “Boys and toys” 80's/90's women were positioned as computer illiterates
5 different scenarios Sexual/sexuality based Change in personal reaction/others reaction
ContinuedAccess to online communities both on and
off screen more widespreadCompeting understandings
Identity, gender, and bodyAlso accountability
ConclusionOverview of research on gender,
sexuality, and Internet technologies.Addressed changes in mediation and
ownership Web 1.0 to Web 2.0More needs to be studied on the Internet
and discourses on gender and sexualityQueer critique of the study of gender,
sexuality, and the Internet“Establishing online selves is also always a situated process and dependent on genre as well as the social frame created within a group” (pg. 277)
DiscussionDo we actually have gender
freedom online?Is the Internet a new breading
ground for the next gender debate? Are gender differences as important
online as they are offline?Can we ever escape this need for
known gender roles?
Self-disclosure, privacy and the Internet By: Adam N. Joinson & Carina B. Paine Purpose: focus on disclosure in CMC and web-based forms, finding links
between privacy and self-disclosure, and proposing three critical issues that unite the ways in which we understand the links between privacy, self-disclosure, and new technology.
Determine self-disclosure: bonds of trust, solidarity, and strengthen identity Measure self-disclosure: different from F2F and CMC Self-disclosure and the Internet: New technology contains high levels of self-
disclosure. Findings suggest more is being disclosed through internet relationships
compared to real-life relationships. Online and automated interviews and surveys, report more sensitive
information “Very few individuals actually take any action to protect their
personal information, even when doing so involves limited costs.”(pg. 239)
Models of self-disclosure online: Paradox of being able to express yourself and also allowing more access to self.
What is privacy?: various functions and dimensions to privacy
Continued Privacy and the Internet: clash between privacy and new technology.
Concerns about the Internet eroding privacy. Personal information being a commodity. “Double edged sword”
Linking models of privacy and CMC: privacy is prerequisite for disclosure. Trust and disclosure: Establishing trust and not always having to reduce
privacy Control: self-disclosure online is control. Volunteering info, privacy may be
compromised, uncontrolled use. Conclusions: Focus on micro-level media is ignored which limits how we
conceptualize online behavior.
Examples: Facebooks use of personal info to conduct research Privacy setting on Facebook Commercial use of our browsing history Online dating
DiscussionWhat is your definition of privacy?What are some of your ways to
protect your privacy online? Do they work sufficiently?
What are the moral and ethical implications to using our personal online information even if it is supplied voluntarily?
How has the increased use of new technology changed our self-disclosure patterns?
The real problem: avatars, metaphysics and online social interaction By: David Gunkel Purpose: addressing social issues regarding CMC proxies or avatars,
distinguishing what is reality vs virtual reality. Online we are free to be who we wish to be
Manipulate avatar characteristics Neglects to recognize limitations of real physical bodies Cartesian Thinking
Online behavior/Avatar behavior vs Real behavior Shedding race and gender without “real life” consequences Violent actions not tied to real behavior
Will the Real Please Stand Up Case of Julie Earliest recorded accounts of avatar identity crisis To Tell the Truth Show One would need access to appearance and real thing
Continued Plato
Differentiates between object as it appears to us, through our senses and the thing itself
Kant Adds further qualification that
access to the real thing is forever restricted and beyond us
Zizek Real= already a virtual construct Truth= no longer resides in what
is assumed to be the “real state of things”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMA4x7aXJT0
DiscussionHow is identity determined in the age of the
Internet?Do social media groups such as Facebook,
allow us to access the “real” thing?What are some ways that we might be able to
protect ourselves from “fake” identities online?
Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Facebook has 955 million users Helps to create memories
Our identity Hair, clothes, music we listen to, car we drive etc. We create our identity off what we know and remember from
our past experiences Facebook is doing to our memory what Google does for simple
factsDunbar’s Numbers
Describes cognitive friend limit Facebook increases this number from 150 to 5,000 Browse self to help construct more about identityEX: The usage of Facebook as it relates to narcissism, self-esteem and loneliness By: Madeline Schwartzhttp://digitalcommons.pace.edu/dissertations/AAI3415681 /
DiscussionHas Facebook become our memory
surrogate?Has our society become lazy with our
interactions due to increased Facebook use? (i.e. remembering birthdays)
In what others way has Facebook influence dour behavior?
ReferencesGunkel, David J. "The real problem: avatars, metaphysics and online social interaction." new media & society (2010).
Ioinson, Adam N., and Carina B. Paine. "Self-disclosure, privacy and the Internet." The Oxford handbook of Internet psychology (2007): 2374252.
Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios.
Perf. Mike Rugnetta. Youtube.com. PBS Digital Studios, 12 Sept. 2012. Web. 10 Sept. 2014.
Schwartz, Madeline. "The usage of Facebook as it relates to narcissism, self- esteem and loneliness." (2010).