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AO1:Liberal feminist view on digital communication:

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It can free women as they can be whoever they want to be online.

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AO1:Radical Feminist view on digital communication:

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The internet has emerged as an increasingly important space for feminist activist, it has created a ‘call out’ culture in which sexism and misogyny can be challenged.

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AO2:Julia Schuster:

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Digital communication has created a divide between the younger and older feminist activists, as the new wave of feminists unwittingly hide their politics views from the older peers.

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AO1:Digital communication reproduces masculinity:

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Digital communication companies are perceived to be masculine and women play a secondary role in the development and maintenance of them.

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AO1: Cyborg theory:

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The female gender is highly politicised and socially constructed. Cyborgs are something in which challenges what it means to be human.

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AO2: Haraway (1985):

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Digital forms of communication helps to free women from the traditional ideas or dominant patriarchal discourses about gender.

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AO2: Simians (1991) Cyborg and women:

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Used the cyborg metaphor to explain how problems with feminism and capitalism might overcome through greater understanding of identity through cyborg theory.

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AO2: Nakamura (2011):

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Argues that women from a range of ethnic minorities are gaining an increasing present in digital communication and this enables their particular interest.

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Examples of negative impacts of exploitation of women:

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  • Objectification.
  • Sexualised violent imagery.
  • Bride traffic imagery.
  • Sex Tourism.
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The fourth feminism:

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Defined the importance of technology as a means for communicating and sharing ideas and plan.

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Ikamara Larari:

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Campaign to address racism and sexism in music videos.

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Evaluation of feminism:

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  • Feminists are critical of new opportunities that globalisation and digital forms of communication create to exploit women.
  • New digital communication offer new ways for women to express themselves without falling into traditional assumptions about men and women and gender politics.
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AO3: Evaluation of feminism: Weakness:

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  • New digital communication are an extension of older forms of traditional methods which reflect patriarchy.