Children and young people encounter a range of risks on the internet relating to
communication. Making friends online has attracted particular attention as a risky behaviour …

The aim of this paper is to provide context for the quantitative content analyses of gender
roles that are to be included in both parts of this special issue. First, a timeline of historical …

Individuals young and old can learn a great deal from the ways in which men and women
and boys and girls are depicted in the media. Alongside other socializing influences such as …

eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls' and
young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked …

In this chapter, we offer communicative perspectives and challenges related to gender
representation and the gendered organizing and career processes in science, technology …

Early cyberfeminists conceptualized cyberspaces as fundamentally liberating, theorizing
their capacity to move beyond the traditional binaries and limitations of popular gender and …

Games Girls Play examines the role that video games play in girls' lives, including how
games structure girls' leisure time, how playing video games constitutes different …

The growth in the number of netizens is now the impact of increasingly easy internet
penetration and high penetration of social media that is easily accessed via smartphone …

The decreasing number of women who are graduating in the Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields continues to be a major concern. Despite …

Girls and women play video games in equal number to boys, yet they continue to be under-
represented in the video game industry. The goal of this chapter is to examine initiatives that …