i've come across a number of anti-homosexual bloggers and forums within blogsites. the content goes from outright gaybashing to plain old straight pride. there's even a harry potter role-playing blog that's prohibited users from applying to play as GLBT characters, claiming that hogwarts didn't have nearly so many queer wizards and witches as the site had applicants :) joshua Quoting Radhika Gajjala <radhika@cyberdiva.org>: * ditto! * * r * * >Hmmmm... I haven't done an empirical search of blogger sites, but I * >imagine there are quite a few racist, sexist etc. bloggers out there. Just * >as other Internet technologies have been harnessed for all political * >purposes, blogging no doubt has been as well. I understand the empirical * >correlation between technology use and political likelihoods... but I have * >a hard time with technology stripped of content categorized as * >"progressive". The concept of "innovative" works better for me. * > * > * > * > * >Mary E. Virnoche * >Assistant Professor * >Coordinator, Practicing Sociology MA * >Chair, CAHSS Curriculum Committee * >Vice President, SWS-West * > * >Department of Sociology * >Humboldt State University * >Arcata CA 95521 * >707-826-4569 * >http://www.humboldt.edu/~mv23 * > * > * >_______________________________________________ * >The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * > * >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * >http://www.aoir.org/ * * * -- * Radhika Gajjala * Associate Professor * School of Communication Studies * Bowling Green State University * Bowling Green, OH 43403 * * http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ; http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/teach/ * * http://www.cyberdiva.org * _________ * * or to glance at multiple blogs * * http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdivalive.html * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ *