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also available: Paperback
category: Computers
published: Apr 2015
ISBN:9780776622583
publisher: University of Ottawa Press

eGirls, eCitizens

Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices

edited by Jane Bailey & Valerie Steeves

tagged: social networking
Description

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.

This book is published in French.

About the Authors

Jane Bailey


Valerie Steeves

Contributor Notes

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.

Awards
  • Winner, Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award - Social Sciences
  • Winner, The Hill Times 100 Best Political Books of 2015 (#29)

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