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@rmit.edu.au> 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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