Gender & community in the social construction of the Internet
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In: Digital formations 1
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 24, Heft 12, S. 2773-2775
ISSN: 1461-7315
In: International journal of media & cultural politics, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 35-54
ISSN: 2040-0918
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This article examines two major sharing economy companies, Uber and TaskRabbit, describing how they comprise virtual work and articulate gendered relations through their promotional discourse and initiatives. By encouraging the empowering benefits of labour flexibility and entrepreneurialism for women, these companies exemplify a type of neo-liberal feminism, which endorses individualization and market-based solutions to employment. Given the contingent working conditions resident in the sharing economy, a more apt descriptor is the 'gig economy'. The article also examines policy aspects of the sharing economy, including legal debates about worker status and platform discrimination.
In: Journal of information policy: JIP, Band 6, S. 338-370
ISSN: 2158-3897
Abstract
This article provides an overview of gender and Internet policy in Canada from the mid-1990s to the present day. It first traces early federal policy (Fourth World Conference on Women, federal plan for gender equality, and the Information Highway Advisory Council [IHAC]). Turning to the 2000s, the article reviews Canada's influence in international initiatives (World Summit on the Information Society). The article then reviews Conservative government initiatives (digital economy agenda, Digital Canada 150), illustrating a decline for digital inclusion. With a new Liberal government, the article concludes with areas of engagement by government and civil society toward digital and gender inclusion.
In: Journal of information policy: JIP, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 338-370
ISSN: 2158-3897
Abstract
This article provides an overview of gender and Internet policy in Canada from the mid-1990s to the present day. It first traces early federal policy (Fourth World Conference on Women, federal plan for gender equality, and the Information Highway Advisory Council [IHAC]). Turning to the 2000s, the article reviews Canada's influence in international initiatives (World Summit on the Information Society). The article then reviews Conservative government initiatives (digital economy agenda, Digital Canada 150), illustrating a decline for digital inclusion. With a new Liberal government, the article concludes with areas of engagement by government and civil society toward digital and gender inclusion.
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 686-688
ISSN: 1461-7315
In: Feminist media studies, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 371-373
ISSN: 1471-5902
In: International journal of media & cultural politics, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 129-144
ISSN: 2040-0918
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This article provides an overview of contemporary scholarship in information and communication studies on labour and gender in the digital economy. It also discusses recent feminist perspectives on social media attributes around labour, including the paucity of women working in the social media industry, and the gendered dimension of young unpaid interns. Control of the means of communication and production is a dominant and perturbing theme throughout much of the research and activism. The article concludes with suggested venues of further research for students and scholars in order to energize pedagogy and practice in critical communication studies.
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 887-896
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Feminist media studies, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 123-129
ISSN: 1471-5902
In: Journal of information policy: JIP, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 182-184
ISSN: 2158-3897
In: Journal of information policy: JIP, Band 1, S. 182-184
ISSN: 2158-3897
In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy, S. 147-165
In: Bulletin of science, technology & society, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 80-91
ISSN: 1552-4183
This article argues that post—September 11 political debates and legislation around security necessitate a reconsideration of a right to privacy in Canada. It looks at the proposal for a Canadian Charter of Privacy Rights promoted by Senator Sheila Finestone in the late 1990s and the current challenges of emergent material technologies accelerated by digitization and political technologies of regulation and governance.
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 280-282
ISSN: 1461-7315