Chapter III. Thinking beyond the Internet as a Tool: Girls’ Online Spaces as Postfeminist Structures of Surveillance
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27 septembre 2017
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Akane Kanai, « Chapter III. Thinking beyond the Internet as a Tool: Girls’ Online Spaces as Postfeminist Structures of Surveillance », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.on6x0u
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Introduction Mary Celeste Kearney argues that girls’ media studies scholarship, as part of its feminist underpinnings, understands girls to be “powerful agential beings.” Accordingly, it can be observed that within scholarship, internet technologies like social network sites (SNS) and blogs are optimistically constructed as a potential instrument by which girls control their identity or a kind of territory that girls can claim as their own. However, I suggest that this construction of “empowe...