ABSTRACT
In a front-page story entitled ‘Confessions of an IT junkie’ published in an edition of The Buzz, a quarterly magazine of the farm women’s group Australian Women in Agriculture (AWiA), rural woman Judy Brewer (2001:1) says that ‘going online has changed my life’. She writes that technology is essential to her business work and an increasingly important element of her social life, particularly given that, as well as having two young children, she lives 60 kilometres from the nearest shop and 200 kilometres from a town-centre.
