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Commerce and Gender: Generating Interactive Spaces for Female Online User

Commerce and Gender: Generating Interactive Spaces for Female Online User

Noemi Maria Sadowska
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781605663685|ISBN10: 1605663689|EISBN13: 9781605663692
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch022
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Sadowska, Noemi Maria. "Commerce and Gender: Generating Interactive Spaces for Female Online User." Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends, edited by Tatyana Dumova and Richard Fiordo, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 245-256. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch022

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Sadowska, N. M. (2010). Commerce and Gender: Generating Interactive Spaces for Female Online User. In T. Dumova & R. Fiordo (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends (pp. 245-256). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch022

Chicago

Sadowska, Noemi Maria. "Commerce and Gender: Generating Interactive Spaces for Female Online User." In Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends, edited by Tatyana Dumova and Richard Fiordo, 245-256. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch022

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Abstract

Internet technology presented the women’s magazine industry with new prospects for publishing and user interaction. The case of BEME.com, the UK online commercial portal targeting female users, exemplifies the tendency for a commercial context to trade in and on gender stereotypes instead of pursuing opportunities for novel conceptions of interaction with users. Contemporary design practices together with a feminist framework are drawn on to explore these issues. It is argued that although design managers and producers might have been aware of the Internet potential to foster new forms of interactive spaces for female users, these advances did not fit within the existing business models of commercial portals. The notions of “becoming” and “user interaction” are suggested as alternative approaches to the development of female oriented Internet portals.

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