Open AccessKropsløs og kønsløs - Om kønsidentitet på internettet
Author(s) -
Dagny Stuedahl
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
kvinder, køn and forskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-6937
pISSN - 0907-6182
DOI - 10.7146/kkf.v0i1.28419
Subject(s) - cyberspace , the internet , affect (linguistics) , identity (music) , media studies , internet privacy , sociology , computer science , world wide web , communication , art , aesthetics
The article draws attention to the so-called "forgotten" channels of the Internet. Those are the channels claimed to be the really interactive ones. The forgotten channels have been part of the internet since the time fo the Arpanet with their chat groups, news groups, MUDs and MOOs. Exactly the channels which women seem to enjoy. According to statistics gender difference in the use of the internet is very clear. Gender swapping and computer cross-dressing are well-known and popular phenomena in the cyberspace discourse. What does it meant to be "without a body" and how does the "genderlessness" of cyberspace affect one of our most basic identities: the gender identity?