[Air-l] female bloggers: studies

[Nicola Doering]

(1)
There seems to be no big gender gap in general blog authorships:

PEW Telephone Survey USA (2006): Bloggers 54% male, 46% female
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/186/report_display.asp

Herring et al. (2004). Sample of Blogs: 52% male authors, 48% female
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html

(2)
But female blog authors seem to be under-represented in public blogging 
discourses:

again Herring et al. (2004)
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html

(3)
More Links:
http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Applications_of_Personal_Blogging_-_Gender


Best,
Nicola


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