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Nowadays computer mediated communication (CMC) is rapidly turning our world into a global village. We are able to talk to each other in online chat rooms, mediated by nothing but computers. And we are increasingly seeing the benefit of the Internet which empowers women, who are considered less powerful in the traditional patterns of male-dominated communication, not only participate in the CMC “equally” but also find community to pursue their own interests. Thus, the Internet is said to eradicate gender prejudice in communication, leading to greater gender equality and gender became a lesser issue than it had been in previous times.
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Zheng, X. (2013). Study of Gender Feature in Computer Mediated Communication. In: Zhong, Z. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 219. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4853-1_39
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