eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls' and Young Women's Voices

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:	9780776622583
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	04/23/2015
Series:	Law, Technology and Media
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	518
File size:	836 KB

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.

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

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

1. A Perfect Storm: How the Online Environment, Social Norms, and Law Shape Girls’ Lives
   Jane Bailey
2. Revisiting Cyberfeminism: Theory as a Tool for Understanding Young Women’s Experiences
   Trevor Scott Milford
3. Thinking Beyond the Internet as a Tool: Girls’ Online Spaces as Postfeminist Structures of Surveillance
   Akane Kanai

Part II: Living in a Gendered Gaze

1. The Internet and Friendship Seeking: Exploring the Role of Online Communication in Young, Recently Immigrated Women’s Social Lives
   Assumpta Ndengeyingoma
2. “She’s Just 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 and Madelaine Saginur
3. “Pretty and Just a Little Bit Sexy, I Guess”: Publicity, Privacy, and the Pressure to Perform “Appropriate” Feminity on Social Media
   Valerie Steeves
4. Girls and Online Drama: Aggression, Surveillance, or Entertainment?
   Priscilla M. Regan and Diana L. Sweet
5. BBM Is Like Match.com: Social Networking and the Digital Mediation of Teens’ Sexual Cultures
   Jessica Ringrose and Laura Harvey

Part III: Dealing with Sexualized Violence

1. Rape Threats and Revenge Porn: Defining Sexual Violence in the Digital Age
   Jordan Fairbairn
2. Motion to Dismiss: Bias Crime, Online Communication, and the Sex Lives of Others in NJ v. Ravi
   Andrea Slane
3. Defining the Legal Lines: eGirls and Intimate Images
   Shaheen Shariff and Ashley DeMartini
4. “She’s Such a Slut!”: The Sexualized Cyberbullying of Teen Girls and the Education Law Response
   Gillian Angrove

Part IV: eGirls, eCitizens

1. Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship: Approaches to Girls’ Online Experiences
   Matthew Johnson
2. Security and Insecurity Online: Perspectives from Girls and Young Women
   Sarah Heath
3. Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use
   Betsy Rosenblatt and Rebecca Tushnet
4. I Want My Internet! Young Women on the Politics of Usage-Based Billing
   Leslie Regan Shade

Conclusion: Looking Forward
    Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves Bibliography Contributors Index