- Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
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- Read: Sep 15, 2015
This short book by Laurie Penny is a very good read about sexism in the age of social networks and the omnipresent Internet. It does a great job at talking about how a lot of familiar concepts of “offline sexism” are reinvented online and no news to women. It’s short and insightful enough to recommend reading it without hesitation.
Perhaps one reason that women writers and technologists have, so far, the calmest and most comprehensive understanding of what surveillance technology really does to the human condition is that women grow up being watched.