[Air-l] women bloggers
Nancy Baym
nbaym at ku.edu
Sun Jun 10 12:11:13 PDT 2007
This gets discussed recurrently in the leftie (US) political
blogosphere where almost all of the big names are male. I'm sorry I
can't point you to references, I've seen it discussed on Political
Animal and Eschaton in the past. Firedog lake is one of the few
written by a woman. McJoan at DailyKos and Arianna Huffington would
be other important exceptions. I think Digby is female too. And
Michelle Malkin on the right side of the political sphere. Of course
Huffington and Malkin didn't come to public attention through their
blogging, not is it Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing's main access to an
audience.
The issue, in as much as there is an issue, has to do with most of
the "a-list" bloggers being male, and if you go browse through
Technorati's top 100, most are not written by women.
In the discussions I've read, one thing people discuss is whether
women bloggers are more likely to write diary rather than issue
blogs, resulting in their getting less fame, glory, etc.
Others dispute that there is a problem of either underrepresentation or status.
Others say the problem is that the men all link to other men, so even
though the women are out there blogging, they aren't admitted to 'the
inner circle' and don't get the status within the blogosphere that
the men get.
Nancy
>I look forward to the responses because this underrepresentation wasn't
>apparent to me.
>
>Kurt
>
>
>Paul Teusner wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> fishers, surfers and casters - http://teusner.org/
>>
>> bio - http://paulteusner.org/
>>
>>
>>
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