The Internet Is Arguably Gender Neutral

Many people would say the Internet is the best and most important invention in today’s society. Billions of people depend on the Internet to stay social, keep up with current events, for research, and simply for looking up random pictures and videos when they are bored. However, one has to wonder if using the Internet on a daily basis can change how someone thinks and acts. As I was trying to read an article on Buzzfeed.com, I found it hard to concentrate and understand

But, in the “Should We Feed the Trolls?”, LaFrance states “that we are our real selves online as much as we are our real selves anywhere else” (LaFrance 1). The connection individuals are making with the Internet is negatively impacting our society, allowing people’s barbarous thoughts to be viewed by the public eye. The world needs to learn that talking behind a screen should be no different than in-person, because “technology doesn’t magically make a person’s behavior inauthentic” (LaFrance 1). If people begin to understand this concept, it will reduce the prejudices women encounter every day, that are still deeply rooted in our society. In “The Quiet Violence of the Unwanted Kiss,” the misogyny appears in our culture when

Communication with our society and the aptitude for reading has been transformed by the Internet as we, no matter who we are or what we use, adapt to the mechanism of technology and become a less intelligent, shallow community. Due to the many hours we spend on our electronic devices and the fast-paced reading we’ve adjusted to, our brains have become psychologically less perceptive of how the Internet is affecting our everyday lives. We need to make note of our daily habits and how much time we spend online, for the Internet will continue to affect generation after

The issues raised in Tannen’s article do support the different ways men and women use the web and communicate online. Fallows points out comparable details to those Tannen mentioned, for instance, how women communicate excessively by the web compared to men. Furthermore, how every day we apprehend each other more effectively. The 21st Century seems to be the best era to make these comparisons between the Millennials and Centennials.

Three major online communication websites are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. People can share millions of photos and interact with each other at a constant pace. But does these communication tools connect the people at all or disconnect them from public interaction. For instant, the Women March is one of the largest march this year that have also almost a million-people engaged in civic: “Organizers said Saturday they expect as many as a half million participants — potentially dwarfing Friday’s inaugural crowd” (The Washington Post). Half a million is quite large for a crowd in a small space like Washington D.C. to March. And most these people also signed up and being introduce through the Internet. But through online interaction can cause a disconnection among people because they didn’t develop a related relationship with each other and might lead to chaos. Another example is a man who tore off an anti-abortion poster that are offer to him by anti-abortion activist: “Daryle Jenkins, who came from Philadelphia to march today, was offered an ‘Abortion Betrays Women’ poster by a group of anti-abortion activists. So, he took it and tore it up in front of them” (The Washington Post). Did this man take it too far to show his belief? In my perspective, he did take it too far by tore it up in front of the people with difference view and this would make a good reason that American

I started off the presentation by drawing from Royal’s (2008) article on Framing the Internet: A Comparison of Gendered Spaces. I explained how the Internet is not as equalizing as it seemed in it’s early days, as it in fact represents much of the same gender issues we see in the offline world. Royal’s article emphasizes this point, so I used it as a jumping off point for my case study. I think this was a useful way to begin discussion on the gendered spaces of online video games because it is important to understand and

There are few places on this Earth, if any, where the possibilities are truly endless. However, if you detach yourself from the physical world and emerge into the “online” world, you find that this just might actually be accurate in this realm. The World Wide Web has had so much to offer to us since the early 1990s, but with this comes controversy. Unleashed onto a plane of seemingly immeasurable freedom of anonymity, was the world ready for such responsibility? Since those early days when new emerging technology changed our lives immensely, have we at all become a better place, or have we bitten off more than we can chew, and doomed our human relations forever? Exploring these concepts are three in-depth articles, including: “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle, “The Loneliness of the Interconnected” by Charles Seife, and “Cybersexism” by Laurie Penny. Although it is thought that the Internet brings the world together, it actually does not help us politically, culturally, and economically like one would believe, as it makes us unable to be independent, isolates us from different points of view, and encourages real-world violence against women and other minority groups.

When comparing descriptions of male and female users on various websites, it was shown that there was a clear dichotomy between the two. It is through these major findings that Rahab Ministry were called to intercede. Rahab Ministry does not intervene with gender dynamic on the macro level, however; recommendations below are intended to address and explain approaches and methods that are currently in place within the

Social websites like Facebook enable users to upload self-created digital images; it is therefore of interest to see how gender is performed in this domain. A panel used a literature review of pictorial features associated with gender traits, and a sample of Facebook pictures to assess gender stereotypes present in Facebook images. Traits emerging in greater prominence in pictures of males included active, dominant, and independent. Those prominent with female users included attractive and dependent. These

The internet and the people on it can be very crucial. Social media allows people to express themselves in ways they feel can’t in the actual world. They express their feelings, their open to their own opinions, and so forth. However, the internet also consists of people who give unnecessary, mean, and hateful opinions to other people for reasons that no one truly understands. The podcast “Act One. Ask Not For Whom The Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee” by Lindsey West, is about a female who was constantly getting backlashed over the internet by whom she referred to as “trolls.” The internet is usually where people go to voice their opinions over what they feel is right or wrong; with Lindsey West, she had voiced her opinion and what she felt was wrong about male comedians using the rape term too often and using carelessly. A result of West voicing her opinion

For years we’ve associated the exploitive behaviors of males, especially online, with the phrase “chauvinist pigs”. Men like Hugh Heffner of Playboy, Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild and most recently Juan Pablo Galavis from the Bachelor have all been lamented with this term for “misrepresenting the everyday woman” and presenting themselves as the “dominant” figure. It’s shown true for the online world to be domineered by men and shut women out. The idea of men controlling the public virtual sphere and women remaining subservient and in the private sector is reflective of everyday westernized society. Online society has both consciously and unconsciously followed suit by making men the more powerful, which has elicited gendered spaces to be created by us, the people, who roam the Internet.

Since its introduction on a public scale in the 1990s, the internet has been associated with many changes in social experience. Many aspects of social life such as education, work, commerce and even personal relationships have changed through the internet. However, researchers have found that, at least in the early years, access to the internet is shaped according to gender, class, ethnicity and education. During the 1990s the typical information technology user was a white, male, professional with a background in IT. This bias in internet access was named the ‘digital divide’ to point out the implied social inequalities. It was said that the internet was

As the collective world turns on their computers, it is becoming increasingly important to know why they have decided to turn them on and what drives them while they are on. There have been several theories governing modern social society that can be translated rather precisely into the world of the Internet. The personality theories developed by John Atkinson, Abraham Maslow, Joseph Veroff, and Dan McAdams helps define the different shapes that people take while on the World Wide Web. In the following paper, I will discuss these theories, some of the social behavior that takes place on the Internet and the combination of the two into a cogent description of human drives on the Internet.

For the past decade or so there has been a considerable shift in the way we communicate with each other; instead of speaking face-to-face, we prefer to stay in touch by way of a Facebook post or Tweet. Social media dominates our life whether we’re using it, or not. However, not all online dissonance has been healthy and civil. The internet has seen a rise in the number of trolls and predators that lurk the dark corners of the Internet. Threats, and heinous insults flood media networks like Reddit and Snapchat. Online predators who fling insults are enamored by the internet’s alluring anonymity and can’t give it up. Like Christine Rosen says in her article called, “In the Beginning Was the Word,” “technology has introduced new words, changed the meaning of others, and has even introduced new forms of language and communication” (230). The evolutionary trend and prevalence of people intentionally offending others online has led to a

Many people often shop online in today’s day and age, but how many notice this small little detail when scrolling through the internet looking for an item they want. One might be looking at the different colors an item comes in. There are all the normal colors, then there are the colors that are often labeled “girl” colors. These “girl” colors are often pink, purple, and other pastel colors. This is just one instance in which women and girls are a part of a marginalized community in society. The identity of being a woman or girl often gets them labeled as an “other” in society. This type of marginalization of women can be seen in all aspects of everyday life, but one particular area that women and girls are marginalized is through websites. In being a woman myself, I’ve seen firsthand how some websites marginalize women and girls as a whole.