Introduction: Gender in the Internet Age
Description
In this issue, linguist Susan Herring presents a survey of research on gender in computer-mediated communication on mailing lists and in discussion groups. Lisa King, the president of DC Web Women, discusses gender in online communities, which she distinguishes from public or semi-public discussion groups. Virginia Eubanks, editor of the cyberfeminist 'zine Brillo, begins with the claim that the Internet is actively and aggressively hostile to women and discusses her successes challenging the paradigms that actively exclude white women and people of color. Information scientist Elizabeth Buchanan examines the representations of women in video games, finding that they are victims, vixens, or invisible.
This article is part of a special issue of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) Newsletter.
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