Ems - Summer I ’11 - T101 Lecture 6: Gender, Identity & Social Media

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

“a genre-breaking female version of The Hangover”

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