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'This is Womenspace': USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983–86

'This is Womenspace': USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983–86

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'This is Womenspace': USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983–86

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'This is Womenspace': USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983–86

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Journal title

Technology and culture, 2022-07, Vol.63 (3), p.634-664

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English

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Contents

Two digital channels that became the site for women's sociality on USENET: net.women and net.women.only. Together they tell a story of gendered contest and elaborated digital norms in the 1980s. Though subscribers to net.women considered these topics from a gender perspective, the forum was a testing ground for selective sociality on the Net, free...

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'This is Womenspace': USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983–86

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2691460609

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2691460609

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ISSN

0040-165X,1097-3729

E-ISSN

1097-3729

DOI

10.1353/tech.2022.0104

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