Camgirls

Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networking
is a very interesting book. Theresa Senft, writer of this book, is able to present readers with a first-hand account of the ethnographic study of Camgirls. Camgirls are basically women who broadcast themselves over the web for the general public. In this process, they try to cultivate a status that gives them a micro celebrity feeling. Senft participated in one of the earlier forms of webcamming from her little apartment in her quest to write about camgirls. She called her participation “homecamming,” and has since chronicled the various stages of webcamming. Today, this cyberspace phenomenon has moved on to enable women to find newer forms of identity through social networking sites such as Live Journal, You tube, MySpace and Facebook. On one hand our society encourages women to find an identity through confession,celebrity, and sexual display, while on the other hand, conservatives criticize camgirls for exposing too much.

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