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Document_view. The Internet is imagined as an all-inclusive technology that will allow everyone, regardless of social status, gender, or ability, to communicate equally.

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The full title of a recent book is The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know. But has the offline world really changed? Or is what is happening online merely a reflection of real-world power structures and communications? One possible answer is: the world has changed because online communities allow geographically diverse people to form relationships, whereas previously the mere accident of living in the same town or some other artificially constructed border conferred a sense of belonging.

Www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/482/482readings/gender.pdf. Gender Issues in Computer Networking. Discusses some of the key issues and controversies that have arisen regarding gender and computer networking, including participation of women in computer science and networking, social interactions, and pornography.

Gender Issues in Computer Networking

Leslie Regan Shade Concordia University Associate Professor, Communication Studieslshade@alcor.concordia.ca Talk given at: Community Networking: the International Free-Net Conference Carleton University, Ottawa, CANADA, August 17-19, 1993 It seems that the topic of gender and computer networking is the flavour of the month. When I proposed this talk to Dave Sutherland in June, I was already working on a collaborative paper with Gladys We, a master's student in Communications at Simon Fraser University and the Publications Coordinator of the Vancouver Free-Net, on gender issues in networking, for the Internet Business Journal. Gender Issues in Computer Networking.