How Decentralized Blockchain and the Web 3.0 It Enabled Can Better Empower Feminist Movements by Deconstructing Traditional Power Structures--Iteration of the World Wide Web and Increased Gender Equality Opportunities Over Time

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How Decentralized Blockchain and the Web 3.0 It Enabled Can Better Empower Feminist Movements by Deconstructing Traditional Power Structures--Iteration of the World Wide Web and Increased Gender Equality Opportunities Over Time

Xinran Lai 1*
  • 1 Arts and Humanities Division, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China    
  • *corresponding author xl327@duke.edu
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Abstract

By referring to the past two major iteration stages of the World Wide Web (Web 1.0 and Web 2.0), together with the technical context and applications of blockchain technology based on qualitative analysis, this article introduces the advantages of blockchain and the Web 3.0 it enabled in empowering gender equality movements in the new web era. While many are skeptical and even disparaging of the potential of blockchain and Web 3.0 nowadays due to the uncertainties of the technology, the superiority of decentralized web iteration still carries great possibilities, especially in promoting the causes of equality and social justice. This article aims to analyze, summarize, and emphasize the increased opportunities that blockchain and Web 3.0 it enabled could bring to deconstruct traditional unequal power structures and empower web-based feminist movements, calling for more attention to the importance of this technology and web iteration in promoting gender equality.

Keywords:

Component, Feminism, Media History, Gender Equality, History of World Wide Web

Lai,X. (2023). How Decentralized Blockchain and the Web 3.0 It Enabled Can Better Empower Feminist Movements by Deconstructing Traditional Power Structures--Iteration of the World Wide Web and Increased Gender Equality Opportunities Over Time. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,4,518-524.
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Lai,X. (2023). How Decentralized Blockchain and the Web 3.0 It Enabled Can Better Empower Feminist Movements by Deconstructing Traditional Power Structures--Iteration of the World Wide Web and Increased Gender Equality Opportunities Over Time. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,4,518-524.

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