Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture

Wai Fong Cheang

Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture

Wai Fong Cheang^*

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Center for General Education

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Abstract

The advent of digital technology, computers, Internet and cyberculture has brought forth changes in almost every aspect of material life as well as social life. This paper discusses the dialectics of control and democracy in cyberculture. It focuses on the issue of women's representation and women voices in the Internet. It begins with the optimistic utopian vision of cyberculture in Allvin Toffler's The Third Wave. Then it explores the pessimistic dystopian images of cyberculture in popular cultural productions such as movies and fictions. It draws attention to the phenomenon of women's voices reaching out far and wide in cyberculture. By using three contemporary Taiwanese woman Bloggers/YouTubers as examples, the paper reexamines the new possibilities for gender equality and women's empowerment within cyberculture.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings
Subtitle of host publication	Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019
Editors	Jieh Hsiang, Michael Stanley-Baker
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9789869531726
State	Published - 10 2019
Event	26th Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, PNC 2019 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 15 10 2019 → 18 10 2019

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019

Conference

Conference	26th Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, PNC 2019
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	15/10/19 → 18/10/19

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium holds the copyright.

Keywords

Control
Cyberculture
Democracy
Gender equality
Taiwan
Women's empowerment

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Cheang, W. F. (2019). Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture. In J. Hsiang, & M. Stanley-Baker (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019 Article 8939674 (Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

Cheang, Wai Fong. / Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture. Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019. editor / Jieh Hsiang ; Michael Stanley-Baker. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. (Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019).

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Cheang, WF 2019, Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture. in J Hsiang & M Stanley-Baker (eds), Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019., 8939674, Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 26th Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, PNC 2019, Singapore, Singapore, 15/10/19.

Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture. / Cheang, Wai Fong.
Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019. ed. / Jieh Hsiang; Michael Stanley-Baker. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8939674 (Proceedings of the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Regionality and Digital Humanities: South-South Connections, PNC 2019).

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Women's Voices within the Dialectics of Control and Democracy in Taiwan's Cyberculture

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