[Air-l] women bloggers

[Robyn Tasaka]

i've come across some sources that talk about some of the issues nancy
mentions. here are some, plus annotations i did a year or two ago.
robyn tasaka

Henning, Jeffrey. "The Blogging Iceberg." *Perseus*. 4 October 2003. Perseus
Development Corporation. 11 November 2005 <
http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/thebloggingiceberg.html>. This article
provides age and gender demographics of bloggers. Henning also says the
typical bloggers are teenage girls who write for their friends.

Herring, Susan and Inna Kouper, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Elijah Wright. "Women
and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs." *Into the
Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs*. Ed. Laura J.
Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica
Reyman. June 2004. 11 November 2005 <
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/introduction.html>. This article
discusses how the mainstream media, academics, and even bloggers focus on
filer-type blogs by adult men rather than the journal-type blogs by teenage
girls that make up a vast majority of blogs.


On 6/9/07, Paul Teusner <paul.teusner at rmit.edu.au> wrote:
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> 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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> 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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