Adolescents, the Internet, and the Politics of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis

Meenakshi Durham

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Adolescents, the Internet, and the Politics of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis

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Adolescents, the Internet, and the Politics of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis

Meenakshi Durham

Race, gender & class (Towson, Md.), Vol.8(4), pp.20-41

01/01/2001

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Abstract

This case study is based on field observation of the first hands-on Internet sessions experienced by a group of lower-income minority teenagers in a inner-city middle school. Using feminist analysis to interrogate the social dynamic in which the Internet use took place, I explore how new technologies are appropriated by adolescents as a site of social bonding. I conclude that the adolescent users' social locations in terms of gender, race, & class work to constrain Internet use to support dominant relations of power. 65 References. Adapted from the source document.

Adolescents

Adoption of Innovations

Feminist Theory

Human Technology Relationship

Internet

Opposite Sex Relations

Race

Sex Differences

Social Class

Social Reproduction

Social Structure

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Title: Subtitle: Adolescents, the Internet, and the Politics of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis
Creators: Meenakshi Durham
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Race, gender & class (Towson, Md.), Vol.8(4), pp.20-41
ISSN: 1082-8354
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/2001
Academic Unit: President; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; English; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Record Identifier: 9984269224102771

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