Not only male know how to hack and know things about internet culture, but same goes to female too. The only difference is the percentage of male that have interest on it is more than female. Through my analysis, female nowadays not only have to be strong in reality world, but also in a virtual world, which what we called it internet culture or computing. Most of the peoples always thought that female are not really know how to use computer or do internet stuff, but, i have realize that, once they are willing to learn, it will be totally difference. There is a word that i found out very interesting, that is " cyberfeminism". This " cyberfeminism" started in '60s and '70s. It address the status of woman within the technoculture, and woman who interested in digital or internet stuff.
Through this, i found out a very famous female hacker, her name is Susan Headly and born in 1959. She is a hacker during late 1970s and early 80s. She is a member of so called Cyberpunk. She worked as a prostitute before. The reason why she join hacking is so that she could feel the power and this is the only way where she could feel her self-esteem because she had been mistreated as a kid, her life was not that good. Only she can feel the pride through hacking, because this is her strengths. Through her story, i feel that hacking is actually not really a bad thing, sometimes, it can give someone who is very good in hacking no matter you are white hat hacker or black hat hacker feel the positive energy if you are not really good in anything else other than hacking. You can feel your own presence in this community and you can also contribute something to this world.
Reference:
1)Daniel Amrup (2013) Female hackers? Available at: http://denis.salem.free.fr/EXTRA_ST0RAGE/mirroir/copyrightdoesnotexist/ch14web.htm [Accessed: 15th January, 2014].
2) Charlie Gere (2002) Digital Culture. 2nd edn. UK: London.
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