[Air-l] women bloggers

[Christine Moellenberndt]

I wasn't either... but I'm also fascinated and annoyed by the terms 
"blog" and "blogger."  I mean, what counts as a blog? I have an account 
on livejournal where I post very regularly.  Am I a blogger? If so, 
women are NOT underrepresented, because there are a ton of females on LJ 
(of all ages, from ZOMG teenagers posting about how their moms are 
unfair, to women who use LJ for their hobby blogs, etc etc etc).  Or is 
it content only that counts something as a blog?

I guess that's why I'm annoyed... I see a lot of room in the term "blog" 
to include a lot of things that the mainstream definition seems to 
ignore, and I can't find a good line.

Plus, I just REALLY hate the term for some reason :) Not very academic 
of me since I can't pinpoint a reason but man!

I'd be curious to know what the basis for this statement (apparent 
underrepresentation of women in blogging) is.  AFAIK, women are very 
prevalent in the realm.

-Christine


Kurt Luther wrote:
> I look forward to the responses because this underrepresentation wasn't 
> apparent to me.
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> Paul Teusner wrote:
>> G'day everyone,
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>> Has anyone on this list come across data or reflections on the apparent
>> under-representation of women in the blogosphere?
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>>  
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>> paul teusner
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>> fishers, surfers and casters - http://teusner.org/
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>> bio - http://paulteusner.org/
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