Open AccessSpam Agenda, V1.0
Author(s) -
B. Dorris
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
trans/forming cultures ejournal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1833-8542
DOI - 10.5130/tfc.v2i2.642
Subject(s) - the internet , power (physics) , online and offline , psychology , everyday life , internet privacy , social psychology , computer science , political science , world wide web , physics , quantum mechanics , law , operating system
There is an asymmetry between the way men perceive women and the way women perceive men. My first insight into gender on the internet came when I would go through the spam that would arrive in my email folder everyday and delete it. While the contents made me giggle at times, it did rouse some questions, like: Do women feel sexually inadequate? How do we perceive members of the opposite sex? Why is there gender discrimination and rape and what are the effects of this offline threat when we are online? On the whole it seems that, online, the power relations and techniques of interaction between the genders resemble the traditional models which have prevailed in real life – men are driven by insecurity and women by caution