[Air-l] women bloggers

[Paul Teusner]

Hey Nancy,

I'm tending to agree with you on this one about the "inner circle". It
appears that while there may be thousands of female bloggers around, they
are not as popular or as referenced as males.

Then again, my study focuses on religious bloggers. So I am seeing that the
under-representation of females in my study probably has as much, if not
more, to do with the current state of religion in the West than the state of
the blogosphere.

paul teusner


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Subject: Re: [Air-l] women bloggers

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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