300 Incredible Things for Women on the Internet

Author (s), Editor (s): Robyn Freedman Spizman, Randy Glasbergen, Ken Leebow ISBN-10: 1930435053, 9781930435056 Link/ Website: Click here Women rule! A recent study has shown that female Web surfers outnumber men by a considerable margin. This book helps identify the sites dedicated to women such as family life, finance, fashion and beauty, health and fitness,…

Their Own: Female Fandoms Online

Author (s), Editor (s): Rhiannon Bury ISBN-10: 0820471186, 9780820471181 Link/ Website: Click here Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Volume 25 of DIGITAL FORMATIONS, V. 25) Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are…

Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women, and Cyberdiscourse

Author (s), Editor (s): Susanna Paasonen ISBN-10: 0820476072, 9780820476070 Link/ Website: Click here Figures of Fantasy explores the popularization of the idea of the Internet as a «cyberspace» and considers the implications this has for discussions of gender and identity. The book analyzes the standard figures used to conceptualize and explain technology and gender, and…

Everyday Uses of the Internet

Author (s), Editor (s): Mia Consalvo, Susanna Paasonen ISBN-10: 0820461415, 9780820461410 Link/ Website: Click here Everyday Uses of the Internet (Volume 8 of Digital Formations, V. 8) This book addresses issues of gendered identity and agency in the wider framework of consumer culture and uses of new media. Individual chapters explore personal and commercial web…

The Internet for Women

Author (s), Editor (s): Rye Senjen ISBN-10: 1875559523, 9781875559527 Link/ Website: Click here The book contains ‘how to’ advice on using the most common Internet services, as well as information you will need to get Internet access. To put the Internet into a more women-centred perspective the authors have included a chapter that introduces our…

Women@Internet:

Author (s), Editor (s): Wendy Harcourt ISBN-10: 1856495728, 9781856495721 Link/ Website: Click here Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace This is the first major analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women’s activities on the internet across the globe. It brings together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers and media analysts and women’s movement activists to…

Governance, Regulation and Powers on the Internet

Author (s), Editor (s): Eric Brousseau, Meryem Marzouki, C. Cile M. Adel ISBN-10: 1107013429, 9781107013421 Link/ Website: Click here Digital technologies have prompted the emergence of new modes of regulation and governance, since they allow for more decentralized processes of elaboration and implementation of norms. This book brings together an international team of scholars to…

Enemies of the Internet – 2014

“Enemies of the Internet – 2014” On March 12th, known as the World Day Against Surveillance and Censorship, Reporters Without Borders spotlighted in this year’s Enemies of the Internet report.… Natalia Radzina of Charter97, a Belarusian news website whose criticism of the government is often censored, was attending an OSCE-organized conference in Vienna on the…

Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration

ISBN-10: 9211045347, 9789211045345 Link/ Website: Click here Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration : an Edited Collection of Papers Contributed to the United Nations ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance, New York, March 25-26, 2004 The papers provides useful information on how many different organizations are already governing the Internet and its effects on…