Q. How can technological developments be traced back to a gender related powerstruggle? i.e. Are the technological developments part of male dominated culture?
A. Hutchby does address the gender aspect in the sociological context of technologies. I just wonder, given the several wars/disasters, to what degree these new instruments are just an extension of what male domination is about. Women do not seem to get a place in this new world, and if so: only on the receiving end.
Dodge (reader)
Q. I was wondering how Dodge thinks about cyberspace communities being just a copy of real life situations.
A. He talks about cyberspace as a place where your identity is being build (in fragments) but isn't it okay to say that without the internet, the people who had an urge to develop their identities outside their real world would have done so anyway? Before internet people might have joined groups, theater ensembles etc. Now, just because gaining access is so easy, we tend to give to much creditto the internet.
