Women@internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace

Book Overview

This is a major analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the internet across the globe. It brings together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers and media analysts and women's movement activists to ask: are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves?

The book maps both the social, economic and political biases in which the culture of cyberspace is embedded as well its revolutionary potential, explores women's knowledge of and access to the Internet across the world, and puts forward concrete proposals for increasing women's engagement with the new communication technologies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856495728
• ISBN13: 9781856495721
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Interesting and informative

This book was fascinating, even though I got lost in some of the technical jargon more than once, and some of the articles were more interesting than others. I have to confess enjoying the stories more than the discussions of theory, and, in some of the articles, had very little idea what the authors were talking about.However, the production of the book itself was a clear example of women all over the world coming together, communicating, and creating a society.This book showed me that the world of the Internet is no longer the province of the male alone, and the Net is finally beginning to understand and appreciate women's influence in a large way. This will, the writers of this book hope, lead to a better understanding of women all over the world and the problems they face. Truly the women in this book are "thinking internetly and acting locally."