Chapter 4 Flashcards
Who is the author of this quote: “The issue of pleasure and how to get it rather than dominance and how to end it is too often presented as the main issue that sexuality presents to feminism”?
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Who said: “One must often leave the mainstream to seek out the more radical and distinctive black voices”?
Douglas Kellner
What does the genre of indigenous/ Native American women on YouTube often depict?
- Slideshows celebrating Native American Women
- Videos of cultural spectacles such as women’s dance competitions
- Home videos that depict everyday life in homes or on reservations
What does Barbie act as within media culture?
A magnet that attracts admiration and hostility and is a symbolic focal point for the debate over femininity
How has the Internet changed in terms of gender distribution since the late 1980s?
- The internet was dominated by males in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- YouTube has now reached gender parity
2006- men were accountable for 60% of the YouTube community and now only account for 51%.
What kind of content do men prefer on YouTube? What kind of content do women prefer?
Men- prefer amateur videos
Women- prefer professional videos
Who asserted that Internet communications ‘primarily tend to construct women as online consumers’ & male domination of the Internet is increasing, overlooking the fact that women of YouTube are teaching themselves to speak out against sexism?
Lisbert Von Zoonen
Who noted that Women have a wide ‘array of verbal strategies and genres’ and can be ‘considerably more articulate’ than conventional modes of gendered speech power allow, making the point that domination and resistance ‘are matters of interactional practices as well as structures’?
Miceala Di Leonardo
What YouTube blogger reported being harassed by misogynists on YouTube, declaring there ‘is a special breed of YouTube misogynist’, and using YouTube as a means of producing a counter discourse?
Jessica Valenti
Who noted that both the representation of women in mass culture and women’s reception of these images are viewed paternalistically. As a result, members of the female audience are reduced to passive, unwitting, and pathetic views of the commercialized culture industry?
& no single media practice is unambiguous: ‘it is always ambivalent and contradictory’?
& ‘popular pleasure is first and foremost a pleasure of recognition’?
Ien Ang