(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... Best, Nicola -- Prof. Dr. Nicola Doering Fachgebiet Medienkonzeption / Medienpsychologie Direktorin des Instituts fuer Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft Technische Universität Ilmenau Address: Am Eichicht 1, D-98693 Ilmenau Phone: ++49 (0)3677 - 69 4704 (-4703 Sekretariat) E-Mail: nicola.doering@tu-ilmenau.de Web: http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/mkmp http://www.nicola-doering.de/