GNDS 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexual Objectification

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 125
• Professor: Habibe Burcu Baba

Document Summary

Refers to information and communication technologies of the last 2 decades. Consumers new called users because they are involved in the production of the media that they consume (tweets) Cyberspace bringing an end to gender: allows us to be free from our bodies, but still a very gendered space (names, avatars, online use) 3 categories to describe the influence of new technology: social media and political change, the fate of information surveillance and marketing, universal library. Characteristics attributed to men are centralized in games. Sexual objectification of the bodies of women male gaze. Use of electronic communication to bully a person. Mobbing happens on a collective level by a group while bullying is more individual.