Response to Wired Women: Lost or Found in Cyberspace
Wired Women by Meredith Underwood
Underwood focuses on the role of women online. She said women bridge the cap between public and private life with the use of technology.
Underwood says that the internet is a “hyper-masculine environment, dominated by males, technologically and culturally intimidating to women.” However, women are now harnessing this power for their own purposes.
“An intimacy has developed between us and our computers that is physical as well as emotional,” Underwood said. For example, laptops are extensions of self by name, they are designed and advertised as machines to connect with user’s body — the machine meant for one’s lap. Consumers carry such machines with them. There is a connection, a bond.
Women use technology as an extension of themselves. Their computer affects them. There is no disconnect from physical body to cyber body.
“I really *do* laugh out loud,” a woman said in an online chat room.
