Includes bibliographical references and index.

The internet and the rise in self-empowerment of Chinese women: a multi-method analysis of women's blogs / Xiao Han -- Gendered representations of fandom: how female fan identity is constructed in mixed-gender online platforms / �Od�ul A. G�ursimsek -- Political dis-empowerment of women by ICTs: the case of the Zambian elections / Sam Phiri -- Challenging or reinforcing the gender divide?: the appropriation of media and ICT in Uasin Gishu, Kenya / Jessica Gustafsson, Poul Erik Nielsen -- Small but focused: women (self) empowerment in a rural village / Catarina Sales Oliveira, Nuno Amaral Jer�onimo -- Public demand aggregation as a means of bridging the ICT gender divide / Idongesit Williams, Benjamin Kwofie, Fauziatu Salifu Sidii -- New communication technologies: women's rights violations, limits on freedom of expression, and alternative ways to promote human rights / Tamara Amoroso Gon�calves, Daniela Rosendo -- Access and utilization of ICTs by rural women in Kenya / Monica W. Rukwaro, Harrison Bii -- ICT is not gender blind: a literary analysis of ICT gender inequality and its socio-economic impact in the developing world / Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim, Mohammed Alhaji Adamu -- Does Whatsapp use by female students ruin their morality?: the case of junior high school students in Cape Coast Metropolitan, Ghana / George Anderson Jr. -- Internet mediatization: new opportunity for women in politics? / Nkiru C. Ezeh, Njideka V. Enwereuzo -- Mothers' domestication of household ICTs: implications of social and cultural factors / Abdulhameed Kayode Agboola -- Digital leisure or digital business?: a look at Nigerian women engagement with the internet / Joseph Wilson, Aisha Kolo Lawan -- Women and Nigerian ICT policy: the inevitability of gender mainstreaming / Nuhu D. Gapsiso, Rahila Jibrin -- Mobile-based social media platforms and women mobilisation for political participation in Nigeria / Abdulmutallib A. Abubakar.

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"This book is a critical source for understanding the role of technology adoption within female empowerment and equality in developing nations and beyond, examining the strategies applicable to the use of technology among women in developing as well as developed countries in which they have access to ICTs"--Provided by publisher.

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