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Feminized Digital Sociality and Online Philanthropy

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Feminized forms of digital labor are coded as relational/interpersonal and learned mostly defined through women’s social spaces offline. In this chapter, we examine how this feminized digital labor plays out at the intersection of digital financialization and digital philanthropy at microfinance sites such as kiva.org.

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  1. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA

    Radhika Gajjala & Kaitlyn Wauthier

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  1. Radhika Gajjala
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Correspondence to Radhika Gajjala .

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  1. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Jeremy Hunsinger

  2. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Lisbeth Klastrup

  3. Bldg. 209, 3rd Floor, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Matthew M. Allen

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Gajjala, R., Wauthier, K. (2019). Feminized Digital Sociality and Online Philanthropy. In: Hunsinger, J., Klastrup, L., Allen, M. (eds) Second International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1202-4_58-1

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