Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World?

Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World?
ISBN-10
1896764142
ISBN-13
9781896764146
Category
Computers and women
Pages
231
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Canadian Scholars’ Press
Author
Melanie Stewart Millar

Description

The digital world, its advertising machinery and the popular media are pushing women back into traditional roles and once again creating a superior hypermacho expert male. This work explores power relations in the digital world and asks us to question what is really going on. How is technology shaping our future?

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