I will investigate the gender roles present in Internet popular culture. The data presented will give a larger understanding of the relationship between sex, age, class, and ethnicity with a summary of its effects on popular culture. A historical context of gender roles within the Internet will also be included that will discuss the origin of the internet in the late 1960's to present. It will go into detail over the early uneven gender participation of the internet, to the balancing of gender involvement in modern times. The recognition of the most visited websites since the Internets inception and its effects on the interpretation of gender within popular culture are a key to understanding the development of these gender roles. The original research will be conducted in survey format for ease of accessibility.
--Joshua Winn