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E-empowerment of heterogeneous feminist networks
Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2007
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Winker, Gabriele
Start Page
109
End Page
120
Citation
Gender Designs IT: Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology: 109-120 (2007)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN
978-3-531-90295-1
978-3-531-14818-2
From its beginning, the Internet has prompted euphoric hopes for strengthening the women's movement, more gender equality, new public spaces for feminist issues and world wide networking, solidarity and community building of women. In our research project E-Empowerment. The Use of the Internet in Women's Political Networks, we reviewed these euphoric prognoses and confronted them with empirically founded findings. We examined whether it is possible for feminist networks to increase their influence and power via the Internet (Schachtner, Winker 2005). In the context of this research project it was not possible to simply enquire into the impact of the Internet on feminist politics, because this question suggests that the Internet is a stable, fixed technology with definite effects. Instead, the Internet is in a permanent state of change and can be designed by different actors.
DDC Class
302: Social Interaction