ABSTRACT In this short response to Kate Eichhorn’s article, ‘Girls in the Public Sphere: Dissent, Consent, and Media Making’, I extend her analysis by offering three points of provocation which challenge the idea of the digital sphere as a public sphere. As Eichhorn points out, the digital sphere offers more access and visibility to girls, so that this contemporary version of the public is not characterised by an absence of girls—even if this participation is mined for data for corporations. This is a crucial point, but even within that framework, specific girls continue to be excluded. This is an important difference—between absence and exclusion—that is worth parsing out.

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缺席与排斥：关于女孩公共领域的笔记——对凯特·艾希霍恩 (Kate Eichhorn) 的“公共领域中的女孩：异议、同意和媒体制作”的回应。

摘要 在对 Kate Eichhorn 的文章“公共领域中的女孩：异议、同意和媒体制作”的简短回应中，我通过提供三点挑衅来扩展她的分析，挑战数字领域作为公共领域的想法。正如 Eichhorn 指出的那样，数字领域为女孩提供了更多的机会和可见性，因此这个当代版本的公众不会以缺少女孩为特征——即使这种参与是为公司挖掘数据的。这是一个关键点，但即使在该框架内，特定的女孩仍然被排除在外。这是一个重要的区别——缺席和排斥之间——值得解析。