Informed, Hopeful, Hesitant: A virtual ethnography of the participation of women with reproductive difficulties in an Argentine egg donation forum
| Autor: | Lucía Ariza |
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| Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Cuadernos de Antropología Social, Vol 0, Iss 45 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0327-3776 1850-275X |
| Popis: | The article presents preliminary findings from analysis of an online forum on egg donation hosted by one of Argentina’s most well-known maternity websites, Planeta Mamá. It explores prevalent themes and ways of using the forum, showing the emergence of three characteristic female online profiles that are routinely enacted online: the information-leaned, the hopeful, and the doubtful woman. Analysis of these online profiles enables questioning the extent to which information sharing can truly become, in the context of online activity, a form of empowerment; in addition it points to the need of further considering the online forum as space where a specific type of peer pressure takes place. The nature/culture dichotomy is also analysed as part of these repertoires, specifically in its capacity to emphasise the “construed” character of kinship. Through these analyses, the article makes a contribution towards an empirical specification of Rose and Novas’s (2005) notion of “digital bio-citizenship”. |
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