Online gendered interactions: exploring divergent perspectives
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The effects of the Internet on social life are well documented. Empirical evidence highlights fundamental changes in various aspects of social life connected to the growth of information and communication technologies. The ability to communicate with others across time and space has expanded opportunities to meet others and maintain personal relationships. Over the last twenty years, researchers have explored a variety of topics in relation to this new information and communication technology. A common question posed in the literature on the Internet relates to how social structures such as gender matter when people interact without physical presence in a technologically mediated environment. Despite the multidisciplinary, methodological, and theoretical diversity of the various studies on the topic of gender online, patterns are identified in the literature and include gender fluidity, gender reproduction, and a blending of gender fluidity and reproduction. This paper examines the significance of gender in online settings and concludes by discussing how recent developments in information and communication technologies present new arenas in which to examine the role of gender on the Internet
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