ABSTRACT

The Web had to include all information of any sort of system. The uniform resource identifier (URI) is the fundamental specification of the Web and the technology that makes such connections possible. The embodied experience of pregnancy is not deemed suited to public discourse. Online spaces such as blogs and microblogs offers an outlet for women to articulate emotional and pragmatic experiences of mothering that break social taboos. Women are also using YouTube to share their experiences of pregnancy and child-bearing. Given the media coverage of Twitter, it is perhaps surprising that this medium has received much less attention in the mainstream media than the micro-blogging site. The sonogram itself is labelled by the sonographer im a boy both gendering the foetus and giving him a voice. Feminist critiques of public foetal images have argued that the technofetus is always disconnected from the pregnant body as well as the social, political and economic context.