Digital and social networking technologies have transformed media production and distribution from an exclusive professional practice to a more organic and interactive peer-to-peer media culture. New participatory visual methods in research often
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Technologies of Nonviolence
Ethical Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, Naydene de Lange, and Relebohile Moletsane
Networked Technologies as Sites and Means of Nonviolence
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Laurel Hart, Pamela Lamb, and Joshua Cader
How might online communities and networked technologies foster nonviolence for girls and young women? Which technologies might generate greater accessibility to knowledge, and communities of support, in order to help girls and young women overcome
Tweens as Technofeminists
Exploring Girlhood Identity in Technology Camp
Jen England and Robert Cannella
Girls’ relationships with digital technologies are often complicated by competing narratives. Girls are told that digital technologies are a gender neutralizer or savior; this is a common argument of 1990s’ cyberfeminism that “celebrated digital
“Can You Really See What We Write Online?”
Ethics and Privacy in Digital Research with Girls
Ronda Zelezny-Green
technologies more broadly, and not specifically on cell phones. Making a distinction between children’s cell phone use and their use of other technologies is important since the increasingly personalized and private nature of cell phone appropriation has come
Delivering Sexual and Reproductive Health Education to Girls
Are Helplines Useful?
Joan Njagi
Communication technologies such as social and mobile media are considered useful in contributing to breaking down barriers of access to mainstream media platforms such as TV, radio, and newspapers, thereby increasing social and political
“For Girls to Feel Safe”
Community Engineering for Sexual Assault Prevention
Day Greenberg and Angela Calabrese Barton
Learning and practice are grounded in historical, physical, and contextual location ( Bright et al. 2013 ). In STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), sociohistorical narratives about who can develop and succeed in these subjects
Chloe Krystyna Garcia and Ayesha Vemuri
Bock (2012) describes as a technology of nonviolence, serving as ways in which young women and girls identify oppressive structures, persons, myths, and stereotypes that contribute to rape culture, and as tools for warning others. For example, vloggers
Sharing Images, Spoiling Meanings?
Class, Gender, and Ethics in Visual Research with Girls
Janet Fink and Helen Lomax
-evolving ethical concerns we identify here are elaborated by Mok et al. in their discussion of the research ethics engendered by the rapid development of digital technologies and their application in social research. Their review of the visual ethics literature
Teaching National Identity and Alterity
Nineteenth Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks
Bahar Gürsel
European superiority textually and visually by referring to the development of industry and technology as a consequence of the colonization of the New World and by praising the “perseverance and inventive genius” of the new Americans. 47 Mitchell also
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 106–126
Femininity Out of Control on the Internet
A Critical Analysis of Media Representations of Gender, Youth, and MySpace.com in International News Discourses
Shayla Thiel-Stern
This article raises issues related to the gendered representation in the print media, particularly English-language newspapers, of girls who use MySpace as foolish innocents who invite sexual predation. It examines the ways in which the stereotyped representation of girls and boys promotes the hegemonic discourses that construct girlhood as a time of helplessness and lack of control, and that blame the technology itself, in this case MySpace, for a multitude of cultural problems. Ultimately, these discourses portray MySpace as a dangerous place where adolescent girls flaunt sexuality, where sexual predators lurk, and where boys commit violence, thus creating and reinforcing a moral panic and extending stereotypes about girls and boys, and about technology.