ems - summer i ’11 - t101 lecture 6: gender, identity & social media
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Welcome to SummerT101 – Day 6
Day 6 – Gender, Identity and Social Media
What do most new media gurus look like?
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Or is it more like this…
Magazine banned from Barnes & Noble
Gender ≠ Sex - Andrej Pejic
•Social media help us create and manage those versions so someone else doesn’t do it for us
We create different versions of ourselves
•Gender is also part of our identity
What do our readings say about identity?
Our likes and interests are more important than age and gender
Social media as cooking/parenting instructor, i.e. formerly known as mother
Food blogs
Women use social media to make their lives easier, more personalized and satisfying while connecting to others
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