The Digital Landscape: New space for women? {1}

Feminist legal geographies of intimate-image sexual abuse: Using copyright logic to combat the unauthorized distribution of celebrity intimate images in cyberspaces

“…Haraway's vision was shared enthusiastically by other feminists including geographer Light (1995), who predicted that the internet specifically offered women a greater opportunity for self-expression. Plant (1996) also argued that computer-mediated communications might create potential new liberatory spaces.…”

Spinning a northern web: Women using information and communication technology to network for health and wellness.

“…Light (1995) suggests that women see technology as a means to increase their capacity to connect with others, to discuss and to organize. She also suggests that the creation o f female cyberspace does not necessarily mean that they must be women-only spaces, but rather they can be inclusive communities enriched by a diversity o f views that can educate and encourage participation.…”

“…The process o f finding and building from networks o f supportive, quality relationships has a positive influence on women's health (Leipert, 1999) and engages them in being a part o f utilizing and developing ICT to their benefit (Balka, 1997;Light, 1995).…”

Chinese Women and the Cyberspace

“…A focus on women and ICT has produced research that has assessed changes to women's status and their socioeconomic opportunities via the participation of women in computer science as a profession (Klawe & Leveson 1995;, issues of access analyzed through the prisms of race, class and gender (Balka 1996;Consalvo & Paasonen 2002;Light 1995;Taylor, Kramarae & Ebben 1993), the diversity of social interactions and their potential for the constitution of multiple identities (Cherny & Weise 1996;Consalvo & Paasonen 2002;Kendall 2000;Winter & Huff 1996), the gendering of information systems (Adam 2005;Balka 1997), issues of sexual harassment and online pornography (Cebulko 2007;MacKinnon 1995;Miller 1995;O'Toole et al 2007;Waskul 2004), and feminist historical analyses that have illuminated a range of concepts and actions missing from mainstream social studies of ICT (Cockburn & Ormrod 1993). Leslie Shade notes that a focus on women can pinpoint the relevant social actors and the gendered assumptions in the design, diffusion, and consumption stages of an ICT's life cycle (2002: 6) and highlights various women's active use of ICT for social change, support networks, and 'as a means of self-expression' (2002: 10).…”