Thanks Joshua, hopefully that makes what I meant clearer, Andy. Sorry if I was being woolly- just spent a hard day interviewing teens about their internet, mobile phone and computer gaming! Fascinating but exhausting. Sue -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of joshua raclaw Sent: 28 February 2006 21:19 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] teens and myspace Oh, I should probably put that more into context. So based on that conceptualization of gender, what the analysis is saying is that the girls are indexing femaleness (or 'performing' a female identity) by adopting a stance that's for or against internet use. Joshua Joshua Raclaw Dept of Linguistics University of Colorado Quoting joshua raclaw <Joshua.Raclaw@colorado.edu>: * Holloway and Valentine are referring to gender in the ideological or * performative sense - gender being seen as something you accomplish socially * rather than some inherent quality about you. Hence the 'doing' a gender * rather than, say, 'being' a gender. It cuts the assumption that one's * phenotypal sex (physiology, hormones, chromosomes) is tied directly to one's * gender identity. * * That was oversimplified as anything, but hopefully it helped? * * Joshua * * * * Joshua Raclaw * Dept of Linguistics * University of Colorado * * Quoting Andy Roberts <aroberts@gmail.com>: * * * On 28/02/06, Sue Cranmer <sue@jcranmer.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: * * > Also, there's a useful chapter which touches on this in * * > Cyberkids - Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine, specifically about how * young * * > girls may perform gender by positioning themselves as being for/against * * > internet use (if my memory serves). I've seen this in my own research * too. * * * * Please could you explain what is meant in this context by 'perform gender' * ? * * _______________________________________________ * * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * * http://www.aoir.org/ * * * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ * _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/