MDSB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Online Identity, Cyberfeminism, Judith Butler
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New media and the construction of identity, or what"s the deal with the dolly. "we present ourselves slightly differently to different people. Identity is flexible and changeable, and people are highly skilled in varying their self-presentation appropriately" (marwick, p. 356). Idea does not address structure features of identity: example: cyberfeminism, a celebratory by-product of the internet attributed to donna haraway. "genre of contemporary feminism which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the internet and technology" (wikipedia). "the dominant cyberfeminist perspective takes a utopian view of cyberspace and the. Internet as a means of freedom from social constructs such as gender, sex difference, and race" (wikipedia). Seen as an opportunity for women to participate in online culture without being discriminated against on account of sex; on the internet, no one needs to know that you"re a woman, for example: naming and doing: "this overlap between theories of "naming" and "doing" has been extremely valuable to the.
