[Air-l] usenet demographics

[Scott A. Golder]

I'm in the process of completing my thesis on the development of different
social roles in usenet, and am trying to find some demographic statistics
to shed some light on my qualitative findings.

More specifically, I'm interested in knowing how many newsgroups are in
existence (with worldwide distribution), how many distinct people
participate in these groups, and what the gender balance is.

If anyone knows of a source for such statistics and could point me to it, I
would appreciate it.

Scott

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Scott A. Golder
golder at fas.harvard.edu
http://www.scottgolder.net