Gender in virtual culture started to
undergo a deep change with the advent of the new media at the age of the
twenty-first century. Consequently, gender perception and gender role
assignment are undergoing significant and sometimes unpredictable
transformations since everyone in the community can generate his or her own
meaning. The free environment that virtual space is providing as well as the
phenomenal speed of action it provides has opened new horizons for accessing
information.
Before the emergency of virtual
culture, women were more and more claiming for status, functionality and
dignity in the public sphere while retaining their cultural role in oneself. With
virtual culture, women are no longer consumers of stories in this new media,
but more and more story-builders and story tellers. As a consequence, women are
now engaged in short, medium and long–term actions that are not only
transforming the region but also women and men’s mentalities. For example,
In the short term, women are
increasingly aware of social programs and readily engage in them at all levels.
In the medium term, they are targeting participatory, citizenship rights,
becoming, thus, stakeholders in enlightened religious reforms, enlightened
textbook reforms, as well as in political decision-making especially in their
local communities. In the long term, they are targeting education and empowerment.
On the other hand, gender and
virtual culture to men has changed the way how men used to do and act
previously. Now days men are not selective in what to do regarding women, they
tend to interact with various works or duties that formerly were regarded as
women’s responsibilities. For example, the issue of cooking was regarded as
women responsibility.
Conclusion.
Therefore, from the above
discussion, it is clear that virtual culture has led to the decrease of the
gender gap between women and men in daily life and social relations. In simple
language one can say that, the effect of virtual culture on gender is gender
gap decrease.
.......Done by Faith Gabriella.
