The New Architectures of Intimacy? Social networking sites and genders How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of participatory, interactive internet interfaces, such as social networking sites, online communities, and blogs? What implications does the rise of social networks on the internet have on feminist approaches to media and the internet? How empowering are these digital spaces of participation that enable new forms of many-to-many publishing? For this issue, we received a wide range of submissions with methodological variety that point to an emerging new architecture of intimacies. These intimacies are often reminiscent of conventional gendered forms, but at the same time, special languages, literacies, presentational skills, and communicative impulses end up crafting qualitative bonds of a different degree of affect and a new sensibility of selfhood. While such forums may not be particularly empowering, or particularly liberating to women as subjects of feminism, they create a space for new idioms of intimacy, flashpoints, and emoticons; perhaps one that suggests a reinvented girlhood. We can neither write them off nor valorize them, even as the question of techno-elitism remains and the gap with the always shadowy subject, the “other” woman, widens. Catherine Driscoll describes
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The New Architectures of Intimacy? Social networking sites and genders How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of participatory, interactive internet interfaces, such as social networking sites, online communities, and blogs? What implications does the rise of social networks on the internet have on feminist approaches to media and the internet? How empowering are these digital spaces of participation that enable new forms of many-to-many publishing? For this issue, we received a wide range of submissions with methodological variety that point to an emerging new architecture of intimacies. These intimacies are often reminiscent of conventional gendered forms, but at the same time, special languages, literacies, presentational skills, and communicative impulses end up crafting qualitative bonds of a different degree of affect and a new sensibility of selfhood. While such forums may not be particularly empowering, or particularly liberating to women as subjects of feminism, they create a space for new idioms of intimacy, flashpoints, and emoticons; perhaps one that suggests a reinvented girlhood. We can neither write them off nor valorize them, even as the question of techno-elitism remains and the gap with the always shadowy subject, the “other” woman, widens. Catherine Driscoll describesPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Commentary and Criticism
Zacharias, Usha; Arthurs, Jane; Driscoll, Catherine; Walker, Becky; Gregg, Melissa; Cohen, Nicole S.; Shade, Leslie Regan; Mao, Yuping; Altinay, Rustem Ertug; Gorman, Sarah
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, Volume 8 (2): 197-223
Informa Healthcare – Jun 1, 2008
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