Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the
relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Girl Wide Web is an innovative
collection of cutting-edge research exploring a wide sweep of issues related to the ways
adolescent girls interact with the Internet. Employing a range of methodologies and
theoretical perspectives primarily within cultural studies, the authors examine a variety of
topics-from instant messaging and web-diaries to online fan communities and Internet …

From social networking sites to game design, from blogs to game play, and from fan fiction to
commercial web sites, Girl Wide Web 2.0 offers a complex portrait of millennial girls online.
Grounded in an understanding of the ongoing evolution in computer and internet technology
and in the ways in which girls themselves use that technology, the book privileges studies of
girls as active producers of computer/Internet content, and incorporates an international/
intercultural perspective so as to extend our understanding of girls, the Internet, and the …