[Air-l] usenet demographics

[Janet Armentor]

Scott,

To add to Karim's response, Marc Smith has a chapter
in Communities in Cyberspace called "Invisible crowds
in cyberspace" that maps some demographics of Usenet. 

Janet A. 





--- "Scott A. Golder" <golder at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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Janet Armentor, Doctoral Student
Sociology Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
email: jlarment at maxwell.syr.edu

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