This chapter draws together the findings and insights from the research to highlight the significance of fostering young men’s critical digital dispositions for gender justice. This involves supporting young men to interrogate the digital cultures that promote rigid ideas and enactments of gender and masculinity towards creating more equitable and gender just digital spaces. The first part of the chapter considers the study’s findings in relation to a gender justice framing of the four critical digital dispositions informing the book’s analysis: curatorial intentionality, scepticism, ethical engagement and reflexivity. It articulates how the young men’s online engagements both support and hinder gender justice—i.e., how their online encounters challenge and reproduce restrictive and harmful gendered norms. The second part of the chapter provides a series of activity ideas aimed at strengthening these gender justice or feminist-aligned dispositions. The final section of this chapter recognises the need for broader action on the part of policymakers and technology companies working together to create better frameworks that protect individuals from harm and foster ethical online behaviour.

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Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice

  • Amanda Keddie,
  • Michael Flood

摘要

This chapter draws together the findings and insights from the research to highlight the significance of fostering young men’s critical digital dispositions for gender justice. This involves supporting young men to interrogate the digital cultures that promote rigid ideas and enactments of gender and masculinity towards creating more equitable and gender just digital spaces. The first part of the chapter considers the study’s findings in relation to a gender justice framing of the four critical digital dispositions informing the book’s analysis: curatorial intentionality, scepticism, ethical engagement and reflexivity. It articulates how the young men’s online engagements both support and hinder gender justice—i.e., how their online encounters challenge and reproduce restrictive and harmful gendered norms. The second part of the chapter provides a series of activity ideas aimed at strengthening these gender justice or feminist-aligned dispositions. The final section of this chapter recognises the need for broader action on the part of policymakers and technology companies working together to create better frameworks that protect individuals from harm and foster ethical online behaviour.