Lauren Rosewarne

Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators (eBook, ePUB)

Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users-from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators-and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity. The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people-individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups-to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple "jocks versus geeks" paradigm of previous eras, our society now has more detailed stereotypes of the undesirable, the under-the-radar, and the ostracized: cyberpervs, neckbeards, goths, tech nerds, and anyone with a non-heterosexual identity. Each chapter of this book explores a different stereotype of the Internet user, with key themes-such as gender, technophobia, and sexuality-explored with regard to that specific characterization of online users. Author Lauren Rosewarne, PhD, supplies a highly interdisciplinary perspective that draws on research and theories from a range of fields-psychology, sociology, and communications studies as well as feminist theory, film theory, political science, and philosophy-to analyze what these stereotypes mean in the context of broader social and cultural issues. From cyberbullies to chronically masturbating porn addicts to desperate online-daters, readers will see the paradox in popular culture's message: that while Internet use is universal, actual Internet users are somehow subpar-less desirable, less cool, less friendly-than everybody else.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216070573
• Artikelnr.: 68164917

Autorenporträt

Lauren Rosewarne, PhD, is senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction He's a little strange but he's a genius: The Netgeek The worse
you look the smarter they think you are: The Neckbeard I only typed words
on a computer: The Cyberbully They prefer to describe themselves as
cyberactivists: The Hacker You can meet creepazoids from all over the world
without leaving the comfort of your own home: The Cyberpredator Billions of
dollars have gone into inventing the Internet and filling it with pictures
of naked women so we don't have to peep through windows: The Cyberperv
Conclusion Notes Bibliography Media References Index