Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet

Contents: Steve Jones: Foreword – Mia Consalvo/Susanna Paasonen: Introduction: On the Internet, Women Matter – Susanna Paasonen: Gender, Identity, and (the Limits of) Play on the Internet – Kate O’Riordan: Windows on the Web: The Female Body and the Web Camera – Johanna Dorer: Internet and the Construction of Gender: Female Professionals and the Process of Doing Gender – Noemi Sadowska: Women’s Internet Sites: A Search for Design Strategies to Engage the Female Viewer – Mia Consalvo: Selling the Internet to Women: The Early Years – Leda Cooks/Mari Castañeda Paredes/Erica Scharrer: «There’s ‘O Place’ Like Home»: Searching for Community on Oprah.com – Karen E. Gustafson: Join Now, Membership Is Free: Women’s Web Sites and the Coding of Community – Virpi Oksman: «So I Got It Into My Head That I Should Set Up My Own Stable...»: Creating Virtual Stables on the Internet as Girls’ Own Computer Culture – Jennifer M. Tiernan: Women Veterans and the Net: Using Internet Technology to Network and Reconnect – Jamie M. Poster: Trouble, Pleasure, and Tactics: Anonymity and Identity in a Lesbian Chat Room – S. Elizabeth Bird/Jane Jorgenson: Extending the School Day: Gender, Class, and the Incorporation of Technology in Everyday Life – Marja Vehviläinen: Gendered Agency in Information Society: On Located Politics of Technology – Liesbet van Zoonen/Chris Aalberts: Interactive Television in the Everyday Lives of Young Couples.