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Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators : Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes by Lauren Rosewarne is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users—from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators—and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity.The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people—individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups—to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple'jocks versus geeks'paradigm of previous eras, our society now has more detailed stereotypes of the undesirable, the under-the-radar, and the ostracized: cyberpervs, neckbeards, goths, tech nerds, and anyone with a non-heterosexual identity. Each chapter of this book explores a different stereotype of the Internet user, with key themes—such as gender, technophobia, and sexuality—explored with regard to that specific characterization of online users.Author Lauren Rosewarne, PhD, supplies a highly interdisciplinary perspective that draws on research and theories from a range of fields—psychology, sociology, and communications studies as well as feminist theory, film theory,

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Author

Lauren Rosewarne

Publisher

Praeger; Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9798400636516

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Sociology