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Blog and social networks: an analysis from the governmentality technologies and gender

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Currently, the explosion of personal blogs, social networking and other devices and software show how certain practices that were considered exclusives of intimate and private spheres, are now enrolled in the public space of the screen. Based on this scene, in this article we consider that these technologies work as technologies of the self and as control technologies, in the sense proposed by Foucault (1990). They mediate forms of self government in their public presentation modes, while play as control technologies of the others. Technological conditions also are imposed on the possible interactions and contribute to different modes of governance of feelings and specific forms of gender performativización. In this paper we analyze these categories and share some reflections from a case of study with young women consumers of blogs and social networks in the city of Córdoba.

Source: Athenea Digital Revista de pensamiento e investigación social

DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenead/v12n3.1073

Author: Georgina Remondino

Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Language: Spanish

Topic: Gender, Feminism, and Media

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1548516427

FWCI: 1.568

Cites: 6

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10