Editorial Bente Meyer, Susanne V. Knudsen (pp. 123-124)
Introduction: Gender and new media Birgitte Holm Sørensen, Bente Meyer (pp. 125-129)
Out of the boy's room? A critical analysis of the understanding of gender and ICT in Norway Helen Jøsok Gansmo, Vivian A. Lagesen, Knut H. Sørensen (pp. 130-139)
Abstract: The issue of gender and ICT and the concern about an emerging digital divide in Norway have been dominated by a fear that the symbolic content and practices around ICT--epitomized in the hacker stereotype--are turning women off by making them feel like entering a "boy's room" when using ICT. State feminist policies have been developed to cope with these challenges, directed at schools and universities in particular. This paper provides a critical discussion of the state feminist understanding of gender and ICT, to argue the need for a more heterogeneous approach.
Grrl explorers of the World Wild Web Charlotte Halmø Kroløkke (pp. 140-148)
Abstract: Scholars in feminist rhetorical theory and linguistics have documented ways in which online environments reinstate patriarchal forms of control, leading to the continued online victimization of women. In this article, young women's resistance to a narrative of victimization is seen through the lenses of a feminist reconstructionist perspective and a gender diversity perspective (Foss, Foss and Griffin 1997; Condit 1997). The author finds that grrls are best understood within a gender diversity perspective on rhetoric (Condit 1997; Butler 1990, 1997). Grrls appropriate the frontier metaphor and engender masculine talk to communicate resistance and change. The author concludes that the rhetoric of young women broadens the scope of feminist rhetorical criticism and calls for a re-visioning of feminist rhetoric.
Online games: scenario for community and manifestation of masculinity Birgitte Holm Sørensen (pp. 149-157)
Abstract: This article focuses on the use made of online games by boys in the 11-15 age group. Boys often play online games in clans consisting both of friends from physical space and of children they have met in virtual space, with whom they often form Web friendships whilst playing together. The players establish communities, which try to form strong clans to combat other clans. At the same time an internal power structure emerges in the community. This article will present a gender analysis of the boys' praxis in these communities and their internal ranking.
Heterogeneous images of (mobile) technologies and services: a feminist contribution Christina Mörtberg (pp. 158-169)
Abstract: Since the mobile phone has become the possession of almost all women and men, it is no longer a status symbol in the same way as in the early 1990s. Does the transformed use of mobile technology and mobile services intervene in the images and understandings of gender and technology? This article examines the (re)constructions and (re)constitutions of gender and (mobile) technologies in interviews, articles and advertisements. Two feminist figurations, the cyborg and the nomadic subject, will be used in the exploration.
Gender differences: reality or history? Jette Rygaard (pp. 170-182)
Abstract: This article emerges from qualitative and empowering research from 1997, 2000 and 2001 in which traditional gender differences became visible during the collection of data: in interviews with double gender focus groups the boys were the active and talkative, while the girls in general kept quiet. Based on linguistic theories, for instance those of Deborah Tannen (1992), this article discusses psychological differences in talkative behaviour in the different genders and the consequences of this in public life, academia, as well as in relation to research methodologies. In relating diverse stories about both traditional hierarchic "smooth stories" of research and newly emergent traits of subversion or neutralization of hierarchies, the author asks: "What binaries structure my arguments? What hierarchies are at play?" Her hope is that we will eventually be able to challenge the basis of the social representations that keep the unconscious system of gender binaries running in research.
Everything will be in order Bente Rasmussen (pp. 183-184)
Murder, cruelty and sexual assaults Ning de Coninck-Smith (pp. 185-186)
A different city. Female and male homosexual life 1950-1980 Karin Lützen (pp. 187-188)