While this is more about gaming and less about blogs, Tracy Kennedy has done some work on player communities on XBox Live and how women are treated in that space. You may want to look at the proceedings for the past few AoIR conferences and see what she's submitted. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, elham gheytanchi <elhamucla@hotmail.com>wrote:
Hello All:
I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence against women in online communities?
I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?"
I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly.
Thank you,
Elham Gheytanchi Sociology, Santa Monica College
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