Women at Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace

Are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves? This book presents an analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the Internet across the globe. It reflects on the type of cyberculture women are creating including the borders, exclusions and silences they encounter. It explores women's access to the Internet and proposes ways to increase their engagement with the new communication technologies. The contributors aim to break with the tendency - still dominant, even in feminist technology studies - to restrict analysis of cyberspace to the developed world. They emphasize the dynamism of culture and of communication and demonstrate how the Internet can be used to empower women working within very different cultural environments to negotiate the global and make it a local space, and to inform and change global cultures.