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The Internet of Women: the “feminization” of the media industry

26 mins | Jun 19, 2018
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The tech industry is notoriously male-dominated but Moira Weigel, writing in Logic magazine, argues that the internet is in many ways female. From preening and posing in hopes of drawing eyes to us on Instagram, to making “cookies” for the men who own the platforms like good “digital housewives”: to some extent, we are all stereotypical women online.

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