EGIRLS, ECITIZENS

by Jane Bailey (Editor), Valerie Steeves (Editor)

Overview

eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives.

Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore the interplay of factors that shape online environments characterized by a gendered gaze and too often punctuated by sexualized violence.

Perhaps most importantly, this collection offers first-hand perspectives collected from girls and young women themselves, providing a unique window on what it is to be a girl in today’s digitized society.

Keywords: Privacy, identity, equality, online environment, women, cyberfeminism, policy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776622576
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	04/23/2015
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jane Bailey is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), where she teaches cyberfeminism, technoprudence, contracts, and civil procedure courses. Her research is focused on issues at the intersection of law, technology, and equality.

Valerie Steeves is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She has spoken and written extensively on young people’s use of networked technologies, and is an expert in privacy law. Her research interests include privacy, surveillance, and media stereotyping.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: Cyber-Utopia? Getting Beyond the Binary Notion of Technology as Good or Bad for Girls Jane Bailey Valerie Steeves 1

Part I It's Not That Simple: Complicating Girls' Experiences on Social Media

I A Perfect Storm: How the Online Environment, Social Norms, and Law Shape Girls' Lives Jane Bailey 21

II Revisiting Cyberfeminism: Theory as a Tool for Understanding Young Women's Experience Trevor Scott Milford 55

III Thinking Beyond the Internet as a Tool: Girls' Online Spaces as Postfeminist Structures of Surveillance Akane Kanai 83

Part II Living in a Gendered Gaze

IV The Internet and Friendship Seeking: Exploring the Role of Online Communication in Young, Recently Immigrated Women's Social Lives Assumpia Ndengeyingoma 109

V "She's lust a Small Town Girl, Living in an Online World": Differences and Similarities between Urban and Rural Girls' Use of and Views about Online Social Networking Jacquelyn Burkell Madelaine Saginur 129

VI "Pretty and Just a Little Bit Sexy I Guess": Publicity, Privacy, and the Pressure to Perform "Appropriate" Feminity on Social Media Valerie Steeves 153

VII Girls and Online Drama: Aggression, Surveillance, or Entertainment? Priscilla M. Regan Diana L. Sweet 175

VIII BBM Is Like Match.com: Social Networking and the Digital Mediation of Teens' Sexual Cultures Jessica Ringrose Laura Harvey 199

Part III Dealing with Sexualized Violence

IX Rape Threats and Revenge Porn: Defining Sexual Violence in the Digital Age Jordan Fairbairn 229

X Motion to Dismiss: Bias Crime, Online Communication, and the Sex Lives of Others in NJ v. Ravi Andrea Slane 253

XI Defining the Legal Lines: eGirls and Intimate Images Shaheen Shariff Ashley DeMartini 281

XII "She's Such a Slut!": The Sexualized Cyberbullying of Teen Girls and the Education Law Response Gillian Angrove 307

Part IV EGirls, ECitizens

XIII Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship: Approaches to Girls' Online Experiences Matthew Johnson 339

XIV Security and Insecurity Online: Perspectives from Girls and Young Women Sarah Heath 361

XV Transformative Works: Young Women's Voices on Fandom and Fair Use Betsy Rosenblatt Rebecca Tushnet 385

XVI I Want My Internet! Young Women on the Politics of Usage-Based Billing Leslie Regan Shade 411

Conclusion: Looking Forward Jane Bailey Valerie Sleeves 435

Bibliography 439

Contributors 495

Index 503