Gender identity

• online identities


  Numerous things online that you can style such as an avatar make lots of changes to your appearance and for example on Instagram Snapchat, you can have filters and people may choose alternative identity teach their off-line one because behaviour changes based on the audience of example in front of friends, you may want to be seen as cooler

  Benefits is that you can meet anything you want to be in people who are bullied can express themselves. However

  Negative is that you don’t really know the truth about someone you meet online, such as like groomers or catfishes
• Locke & Pascoe


  people adopt their identity and choose it as they are free from the physical bodies, so it can advantage those who feel discriminated due to their age, gender, disability et cetera

  This is positive for women because they feel discriminated due to their agenda places such as Iran, they can use the online world to portray themselves. However, they want an or not disregarded
• Haraway


  due to technology being so embedded in peoples daily life, they are becoming cyborgs and the way you interact with technology defines your identity

  People online can present themselves as whoever they want to be uncomely women and men from gender expectations, such as usernames or no gender neutral and you can make your own name up such as on like PlayStation or Snapchat

  Beneficial as warns about dangers of digital communication. For example, if someone makes mistakes in their youth is recorded via digital media so now people know to be careful
• Paris Brown

  Off-line and online identity overlapped because she was a youth police commissioner, but before she joined the force, she wrote violent racist and anti-gay tweets on her Twitter and due to her young engaged. She wrote these tweets which she now regrets, but however, her identities overlapped because her online identity, the tweets affected her off-line identity which was her job and she ended up getting fired
• Li & Kirkup


  differences towards the Internet and computer uses for Chinese and British students and gender differences where 220 Chinese and 245 British students carried her self report questionnaire

  Men in both countries were more likely than women to use email and chat groups, and played more computer games than women and expressed their opinions that computer games were a male activity
• globalisation, unequal


  Some groups have more access to digital communication than others. For example, Internet usage across the globe is only 10% for Latin America and the Caribbean but 48% for Asia.
• Girlguiding, UK – negative


  Biggest Internet worry for 35% of girls, aged 11 to 21 is comparing themselves with other

  Positives that media can develop friendships and they can express their opinions and gain valuable information

  Negativities that can lead to grooming for girls and make girls home themselves due to not liking the way they look