the digital divide - gender

Question 1

li and kurkip 2007

Answer 1

significant gender differences between men and women in digital communication
- men more likely to use email and computer games

Question 2

ofcom 2015

Answer 2

men in the uk accessed the internet avergae 23h per week / women with 18h per week

Question 3

gender statistics - social media

Answer 3

42% of women use social media - 34% are 18-34
men use social media for other uses than maintaining relationships
younger women spend less time on social media for finding information

Question 4

feminist veiws

Answer 4

• ownership and control is dominated by men
• digital communication uses patriarchal apparatus to engage in sybcolic annihilation
  eg - popularity of pornography

Question 5

feminist views - haraway

Answer 5

anonymity allows people to take on another identity which avoids negative judgements
- women need to participate in technological advancements so that men dont monopolise digital information

Question 6

globalisation and the exploitation of women

Answer 6

• at risk of becoming commodities to be bought, sold and consumed
• national boundaries are becoming less significant and the illegal movement of people has become easier

Question 7

exploitation of women and children - CEOPC

Answer 7

• 800 children subject to safeguarding
• 18k+ reports relating to child sexual exploitation
• 200 people suspected of online child exploitation were arrested

Question 8

negative impacts of women and child exploitation

Answer 8

• physical, sexual and emotional abuse
• commodification of women
• objectification
• sexualised violent imagery less serious
• control over women of sexual images

Question 9

1st and 2nd wave feminism - materialists

Answer 9

focused on factors like economic inequality, violence to women, childcare, reproductive rights and womens bodies
- DFOC doesnt seem important to these feminists
- if women can conduct themselves with freedom online, this doestn change the material realities of life for women

Question 10

3rd and 4th wave feminism

Answer 10

sex positivity - taking part in prostitution or pornography is empowering for women and that the dugemental attitude towards sex and the female body is what oppresses women

Question 11

3rd and 4th wave feminism - bindel 2017

Answer 11

prostitution is ingerently abusive, it is a cause and consequence of womens inequality

Question 12

rape culture

Answer 12

ordinary culture is dominated by norms and values taht justify male violene and sexxual assult towards women - victim blaming and slut shaming

Question 13

hashtags

Answer 13

everydaysexism

#killallmen
#metoo