[Air-l] women bloggers (Paul Teusner)

[Julian Hopkins]

You may well have come across this, but just in case:

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html

Herring, Susan C., Inna Kouper, Louis Ann Scheidt, Elijah L. Wright. "Women
and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs". Ed. Laura J.
Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica
Reyman. Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs.
2004. 11 Nov. 2006
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html.

A brief analysis I did of a blogger-meet
(http://www.julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/13-BUM-2007-the-online-eve
nt....html ) also suggests that 'SoPo' (socio-political) bloggers are maybe
dominated by men. 

Though as others have pointed out, what constitutes a 'blog' is up for
questioning, and most blogs are not the 'A-list', or SoPo, type.

This blogger
(http://blogger-research.blogspot.com/2006/11/blogging-asia-windows-live-rep
ort.html) analyses a report done for Microsoft, based on their 'MSN Live'
service, this suggests that most Asian bloggers are female - but there are
many methodological problems with this report.

Cheers,

Julian

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G'day everyone,

 

Has anyone on this list come across data or reflections on the apparent
under-representation of women in the blogosphere?

 

paul teusner

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