Pollock and Sutton's arguments,
strengths, and weaknesses

Pollock and Sutton's "Women Click: Feminism and the Internet" is not as useful for my purposes as Steiner's piece is because Pollock and Sutton focus not so much on an analysis of online feminist technologies but on the empowering possibility that online communication offers to women. Pollock and Sutton discuss the importance of the Internet in the construction of women's communities and in the propagation of ideas of diversity as an important part of feminism. Their arguments are correct but they do not provide me with enough data to carry on a decent content analysis of ezines. In addition to that, the part of the article dedicated to ezines is too brief. It also concentrates on the analysis of one specific ezine, Womenspace - which was founded by Pollock and Sutton.

Nonetheless, the authors highlight a few points which they believe are essential in the making of an ezine - addressing issues of online harassment; difficulties women experience in working online; issues of technological access; and the building of networks. These points are of great interest to me because they provide me with further categories with which to judge ezines as alternative media or non-alternative.

Pollock and Sutton also raise the issue of language barriers on the Internet and I share with them this concern. It is true that English is the most spoken language in the world but it is still not a universal language. And there is no questioning that most of the sources on the Net are in English. This makes it difficult for feminists to make their voices heard by all women of the world. But, in spite of that, the Internet still is the medium that can carry messages in the most efficient, fastest, and broadest way.