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India: Government should get out of the way

Grady
Grady on 29 July, 2011 - 13:17
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The net has often been portrayed by the media in India as "being a lair of sexual predators". Grady looks at some of the contradictions between policyi and practice that were revealed by the EROTICSi research in India, which explored the ways that young women negotiate risks online as they strategically use the interneti to explore, define and challenge boundaries of gender iand sexual norms.

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Brazil: An ethnographic approach – mapping sexuality on Orkut

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 29 July, 2011 - 10:23
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Flavia is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

Flavia Fascendini explores two communities on the Orkut social networkingi site on sexuality: one is a forum for anti-lesbian prejudice, and the second is a community aimed at legitimising romantic relationships between adults and adolescents. Both groups were studied as the part of the Brazilian EROTICSi research project that focused on mapping the dynamic and complex policyi shifts on interneti regulationi debates in Brazil.

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USA: EROTICS responses to the Denver library - a fictional exchange on real foundations

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 27 July, 2011 - 15:04
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Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

Tapping the groundbreaking findings of the US EROTICSi report that investigated the mandated interneti filtering in publicly-funded libraries, Flavia Fascendini leads a fictional dialogue with the Denver Public Library FAQ on content regulationi.

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Internet in South Africa is more than meets the eye

Grady
Grady on 26 July, 2011 - 16:11 · Africa
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Grady gives a glimpse into the final research of the EROTICSi research in South Africa that explored lesbians and transgender people use of the Interneti, and how content regulationi measures can constrain the internet's democratising and empowering potential for LGBTIi persons in the country.

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Lebanon: Free speech is a gateway crime

Grady
Grady on 20 July, 2011 - 21:32
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The recent controversy surrounding the Gay Girl in Damascus (who turned out to be anything but) has this blogiger scratching his head. Why are we all so focused on how MacMaster misled us, and not on the real issue?

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