New Media and Women Empowerment. A Study on Women Internet Users

      Аннотация: NEW MEDIA AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT: A STUDY ON WOMEN INTERNET USERS is an outcome of a research conducted among the internet users of various sectors of working women including homemakers. As Internet being the latest and continuing new medium, it helps to take long-unheard information, including the experience and opinions of millions of women which are now being heard, according to the researchers in new media. In the context of women’s empowerment, the term “empowerment” indicates women’s political, economic and educational advancement. So, it is imperative to assess whether the Internet empowers the women who use it. If so, it is also inevitable to estimate the empowering potential of Internet. If empowerment is the result of the present research, the usage of Internet can be encouraged as a tool for empowerment, thereby changing women’s daily lives, their hopes, their aspirations and their future.In this context, the researcher has made an attempt to study the influence of Internet toward empowerment among the women from different field from students to achievers. This research may lead to further development in the field of ICT to utilise internet as a new medium of empowerment.

Ключевые слова: new media, Internet, Women, Empowerment