GENDER ROLES IN CYBERSPACE
The gender roles within the family are tightly defined when it comes Internet users. It has been proven that men use the Internet more than women and their behavior when navigating and utilizing the World Wide Web is also contrary from women’s behavior. It is my belief that these differences stem from basic differences in communication that occur between the genders in society.
The attitude that men and women display on the web credits the idea of an online “language” that is gender specific.
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ith so many similarities between gender-specific communications online and off it is hard to see the Internet as a miraculous locality for equality among the sexes.| Gender Roles in Cyberspace | How Does Cyberspace Affect Gender Roles in the American Family? |
| Who's Using the Internet? | Do You Speak my Language? |
| Gender Specific Communication | References |
From the
Flinstones to the Jetsons:
How Technology is Sprocketing the American Family
into the New Millennium
| PROJECT HOME PAGE | Child-Parent Dynamics in the CyberAge by Michael Johnson |
| The Cyber-Struggle Between Parents and Children by Julie Carvey | Computer and Internet
Demographics by Jason Stewart |
This project was produced for Psy 380, Social Psychology of Cyberspace, Spring 1999, at Miami University. All graphics in these pages are used with permission or under fair use guidelines, are in the public domain, or were created by the authors. Last revised: . This document has been accessed times since 1 May 1999. Comments & Questions to R. Sherman
