eGirls, eCitizens

Jane Bailey is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), where she teaches cyberfeminism, technoprudence, contracts, and civil procedure courses. Her research is focused on issues at the intersection of law, technology, and equality.
Valerie Steeves is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She has spoken and written extensively on young people's use of networked technologies, and is an expert in privacy law. Her research interests include privacy, surveillance, and media stereotyping. This title is available as part of UOP's open access (OA) collection. All UOP OA titles are available as a PDF download free of charge. Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cyber-Utopia? Getting Beyond the Binary Notion of Technology as Good or Bad for Girls

Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves
Part I: It's Not That Simple: Complicating Girls' Experiences on Social Media
• A Perfect Storm: How the Online Environment, Social Norms, and Law Shape Girls' Lives

Jane Bailey
• Revisiting Cyberfeminism: Theory as a Tool for Understanding Young Women's Experiences

Trevor Scott Milford
• Thinking Beyond the Internet as a Tool: Girls' Online Spaces as Postfeminist Structures of Surveillance

Akane Kanai
Part II: Living in a Gendered Gaze
• The Internet and Friendship Seeking: Exploring the Role of Online Communication in Young, Recently Immigrated Women's Social Lives

Assumpta Ndengeyingoma
• "She's Just a Small Town Girl, Living in an Online World": Differences and Similarities between Urban and Rural Girls' Use of and Views about Online Social Networking

Jacquelyn Burkell and Madelaine Saginur
• "Pretty and Just a Little Bit Sexy, I Guess": Publicity, Privacy, and the Pressure to Perform "Appropriate" Feminity on Social Media

Valerie Steeves
• Girls and Online Drama: Aggression, Surveillance, or Entertainment?

Priscilla M. Regan and Diana L. Sweet
• BBM Is Like Match.com: Social Networking and the Digital Mediation of Teens' Sexual Cultures

Jessica Ringrose and Laura Harvey
Part III: Dealing with Sexualized Violence
• Rape Threats and Revenge Porn: Defining Sexual Violence in the Digital Age

Jordan Fairbairn
• Motion to Dismiss: Bias Crime, Online Communication, and the Sex Lives of Others in NJ v. Ravi

Andrea Slane
• Defining the Legal Lines: eGirls and Intimate Images

Shaheen Shariff and Ashley DeMartini
• "She's Such a Slut!": The Sexualized Cyberbullying of Teen Girls and the Education Law Response

Gillian Angrove
Part IV: eGirls, eCitizens
• Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship: Approaches to Girls' Online Experiences

Matthew Johnson
• Security and Insecurity Online: Perspectives from Girls and Young Women

Sarah Heath
• Transformative Works: Young Women's Voices on Fandom and Fair Use

Betsy Rosenblatt and Rebecca Tushnet
• I Want My Internet! Young Women on the Politics of Usage-Based Billing

Leslie Regan Shade Conclusion: Looking Forward

Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves Bibliography Contributors Index
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls' and young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada's foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives.

Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore