Girl Online: A User Manual

by Joanna Walsh

Book Overview

What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl.

The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as "girls online," vloggers, bloggers and influencers sign a devil's bargain: a platform on the condition they commodify themselves, eternally youthful,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839765356
• ISBN13: 9781839765353
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.4"