Abstract
The study of gender and digital media encompasses interdisciplinary scholarship seeking to understand gendered engagements with digital media, how digital media spaces become gendered, and how gendered practices change through digital media. Scholars in this area have traditionally focused on feminist concerns with the possibilities of girls and women being able to represent themselves rather than being represented. Accordingly, women and girls in the West currently form a major area of study in gender and digital media research. However, debate about the extent of gendered empowerment possible through digital media continues. Much scholarship focuses on symbolic interactionist accounts of how gender is presented in digital media. Other gendered subjectivities such as older femininities, masculinities, studies of online queer spaces, trans identities, and accounts of the interaction between race and gender are smaller but growing areas of research.
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