Young women’s online experiences of learning about gender inequality

该项目旨在调查年轻女性如何在社交媒体小组和在线讨论论坛中接触到有关性别不平等的具有社会意义的知识，以及她们如何使用这些知识。该项目希望通过使用创新的数字人种学方法解释在线环境如何塑造年轻人的知识获取来产生新的知识。预期成果包括评估作为教学资源的网络文化的积极和消极方面的实用指导方针。这应该会在帮助年轻人更好地驾驭在线文化以及认识、谈判并在可能的情况下克服生活中基于性别的不平等方面带来重大好处。

This project aims to investigate how young women engage with socially significant knowledge about gender inequality in social media groups and online discussion forums, and how they use this knowledge. This project expects to generate new knowledge by explaining how online environments shape knowledge acquisition for young people, using an innovative digital ethnographic approach. Expected outcomes include practical guidelines for assessing the positive and negative aspects of online culture as a pedagogical resource. This should provide significant benefits in helping young people to better navigate online cultures and to recognise, negotiate and, wherever possible, overcome gender-based inequality in their lives.