[Air-l] women bloggers

[Kurt Luther]

I would argue that defining "blogger" in terms of readership is 
dangerous and unintuitive. For me, the canonical blogger is a 
LiveJournal user posting updates for a small cadre of close friends.

As far as "A-list" bloggers being predominantly male, that strikes me as 
far less surprising. Most "A-lists" are underrepresented by women and 
minorities, for some of the reasons cited by Nancy as well as others.

Kurt


Nancy Baym wrote:
> 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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