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Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the evolving relationship between gender and digital media.
Covering topics such as queer and trans communities online, digital intimacy, feminist approaches to technology, gaming, fandom, digital diaspora, gender and race-based hate in digital spaces, this textbook explores how gender is shaped and represented onscreen and online across intersections of identity, class, race, age, sexuality, and technology. Each chapter opens with a critical overview of a key theme by a leading expert, followed by a short essay from a graduate student that grounds these ideas in concrete, contemporary examples. This layered structure encourages critical thinking and connects theory to lived experience. Designed with pedagogy in mind, the book includes tools and activities that support both independent and collaborative learning.
Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, and the social sciences exploring human-technology interactions and digital everyday life.
List of contents
Editorial Introduction 1. Digital Media and Gender: Key concepts
PART I: BECOMING Gendered Selves, Desire, and the Digital Everyday 2. Gender and Identity in the Postmodern, Posthuman and Postdigital Era 3. Queer and Transgender Studies of Digital Media 4. Dating and Romance Online: Reimagining intimacy, transforming the self, and negotiating risk 5. Fandom and Digital Media: A sandbox for creative gender, sexuality, and feminist configurations
PART II: SEEING Representation, Race, and the Politics of the Gaze 6. How We Are Seen: Why representation still matters 7. Ten Things I Hate About Genres: Gender and genre in the post-digital era 8. Understanding the Historical Foundations of Race, Beauty and Gendered Hatred Online
Karen Wilkes PART III: RESISTING Belonging, activism, and masculinities online 9. Gender and Minoritised Childhoods in the Digital Era 10. The Manosphere Between the Global and the Local 11. Gender and Belonging in Digital Diasporic Spaces
Part IV: INTERVENING: Games, gendered technologies and feminist futures 12. Researching Digital Games, Players, and Gender 13. Haptic Histories, Virtual Traces: Excavating gender-diverse XR innovation
About the author
Hakan Ergül is an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Education at University College London, UK. He has extensive teaching and research experience in media ethnography, media sociology, cultural studies, digital media theory, gender studies, and qualitative methods.
