The internet has had profound effects on our culture, including by enabling the creation of digital personhood. Taking personhood in both the colloquial sense and with sovereignty and property in Imani Perry’s trio of patriarchy, digital personhood can improve upon real-life cultures yet largely mirrors the power dynamics of real-life patriarchy. In exploring how internet users relate to digital technology and how corporate control over the digital realm has solidified, the necessity and possibility of building a more communally-focused, power-aware internet becomes clear.
