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=Issue Analysis Website: Women on the Web=

__Executive Summary__ Most women like it on top, and that’s exactly where they are as Internet users. Currently, figures show that women are ahead of men as more interactive users of the Internet. Wendy Harcourt’s article titled World Wide Women and the Web found in Gauntlett’s Web.Studies: Rewiring media studies for the digital age illustrates that the typical image of a Web user of being a white, middle-class male is false. Almost half of Internet users are women who are using it constructively by transforming their role from objects of the Internet to subjects of the Internet (Gauntlett, 2004, p.150).

Statistics show that women make up a large portion of the Internet user population. This paper intends to discover how women all around the world are getting connected through the web. Specifically, the research will demonstrate how women relate to the Internet, how they are using the Internet to communicate globally to create cross-cultural connections, how they are contributing to the development of the web and how they are developing the movement of cyberfeminism. The overall approach aims to identify how women are not caught in the net, but using cyberspace in empowering and creative ways.

 The research will be conducted using several sources. The UTM library website, provides a useful search engine which provides access to numerous library books and scholarly articles. The Internet is an important tool that will directly show how the main aspects of this paper being explored are currently being implemented. Interviews with women who use the Internet in their daily lives will also provide a first hand analysis of women on the net.

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