I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos
Hi there, My feeling is that personal homepages have become somewhat overtaken by blogs as these are easily updated. One thing you may want to try is beginning with blogs and following these to people's homepages. There are lots of blog directories out there - just google 'blog' and you'll find them. All the best Tom _____________________ Tom Hope (teh102@york.ac.uk) Department of Sociology University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD UK http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/graduates/gradhope.htm -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Katerina Sent: Sunday, 16 November 2003 12:22 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] personal homepages I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos
Dionysis, you might be interested in the following publication on the sampling of home pages for studies. Schütz, A., & Machilek, F. (2003). Who owns a personal home page? A discussion of sampling problems and a strategy based on a search engine. In K. Sassenberg, T. Postmes, M. Boos & U.-D. Reips, Studying the Internet: A challenge for modern psychology. Special issue of Swiss Journal of Psychology, 62, 121-129. Best wishes, --ur At 17:21 Uhr +0200 15.11.2003, Katerina wrote:
I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos
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Katerina wrote:
I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos
In which languages do you work ? There are quite a number of French home pages which you can find through the search engines of ISPs. Frank Thomas Rosny, France -- ...................... Dr. Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research Rosny, France
Hi there, You might want to check out my artistic friend's homepage at:http://www.HenriqueC.com Cheers! Peter Peter Jakubowicz The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT, Hong Kong Email: peterjak@cuhk.edu.hk --- Katerina <knd@hol.gr> wrote:
I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos
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Jill Arnold at Nottingham Trent University recently presented a paper on issues for academic women and their identity when creating personal web pages. http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/virtualmethods/vm6abs.htm#Arnold Her work might be a place to start. Cheers, Denise ===== "The distance between here and there is growing; and getting even larger as we speak" (S. S. Hall) Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross Uni, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
Hi, Last year I've conducted a web survey and got app. 34% of internet users (2458 out of total n=7209), who have their own web site. These are not only people who self-present, but use their personal web site (=a web site, on the content of which they autonomously decide) for various social reasons, like cooperation, constructing virtual identity, establishing relationships and expressing their opinion publicly. I believe you could find the genre of personal home pages and (personal) blogs in the context of these. Anyhow, I was surprised by the large percentage, so I guess an efficient way to get to the authors would be by finding them in a web survey of a sample of internet users. If anybody is interested in discussing these matters, have a look at the paper and contact me. http://www.uni-lj.si/~fdpetricgr/paper_pws.html Cheers, Gregor #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-# Gregor Petric, PhD Assistant Professor Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Slovenia e-mail: gregor.petric@uni-lj.si ----- Original Message ----- From: Katerina To: air-l@aoir.org Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: [Air-l] personal homepages I am conducting a research project on the presentation of the Self and identity in personal homepages. I have already conducted 10 online interviews with individuals who own personal homepages, in which they present aspects of their pesonal identity. However, during the last months I have not been able to locate more homepages or the ones I have located seem to have not been updated for years. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages (apart from the search function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid findings). Thank you very much for your time, Dionysis Panos
Gregor Petric wrote:
Last year I've conducted a web survey and got app. 34% of internet users (2458 out of total n=7209), who have their own web site. These are not <snip> If anybody is interested in discussing these matters, have a look at the paper and contact me. http://www.uni-lj.si/~fdpetricgr/paper_pws.html
Did you do a breakdown according to gender? Most studies about internet use are about "consumption" of certain "services," but they leave out the question of who "produces" the internet. In your study, is the category of people who own a personal web site more or less equally divided between men and women, or is that category rather skewed? Frank.
My aim was to inspect producers of web sites with regard to various socio- psychological motives, emerging from the state of being in contemporary society, but I didn't put much focus on genders issue. Well, I checked it and found the following result: between men 44% are producers, while between women 18%. But it should be noted that men are also more intensive users of interactive systems, are more lonely and more narcissist, which are strong predictors of web site production. regards, Gregor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Schaap" <architext@fragment.nl> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] personal homepages
Gregor Petric wrote:
Last year I've conducted a web survey and got app. 34% of internet users (2458 out of total n=7209), who have their own web site. These are not <snip> If anybody is interested in discussing these matters, have a look at the paper and contact me. http://www.uni-lj.si/~fdpetricgr/paper_pws.html
Did you do a breakdown according to gender?
Most studies about internet use are about "consumption" of certain "services," but they leave out the question of who "produces" the internet. In your study, is the category of people who own a personal web site more or less equally divided between men and women, or is that category rather skewed?
Frank.
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I wrote:
Did you do a breakdown according to gender?
Gregor Petric wrote:
My aim was to inspect producers of web sites with regard to various socio- psychological motives, emerging from the state of being in contemporary society, but I didn't put much focus on genders issue. Well, I checked it and found the following result: between men 44% are producers, while between women 18%. But it should be noted that men are also more intensive users of interactive systems, are more lonely and more narcissist, which are strong predictors of web site production.
Thanks for this reply Gregor :) This is an interesting mesh of results and factors. It's nice to see a reflection of my small scale, qualitatively gathered data in a large quantitative data set. Just for fun I figured I'd do a really quick breakdown of Dutch weblogs. I hit the weblog tracker at 11:10 and looked at the 50 last updated weblogs. 22 are by men 6 by women and the remaining 22 are inconclusive about who actually is blogging, but according to content, probably break down like this: 8 by men 1 by a woman 6 by a collective (almost exclusively men) 1 by a common variety garden gnome (a "kabouter"), probably a female one 1 is a fake weblog redirecting to a pr0n site 3 are really hard to classify and 1 appears to actually be written by a dog, giving a whole new meaning to that New Yorker cartoon, 'On the internet nobody knows your a dog.' At first glance this would seem a bit counter intuitive, as some of the most high profile Dutch weblogs are by women and, indeed, weblogs are often perceived as a more feminine format. The quick and dirty breakdown I just did of course doesn't carry much statistical weight, but, viewed in the larger context of production and consumption of the Net, could be indicative. Frank.
and the remaining 22 are inconclusive about who actually is blogging, but according to content, probably break down like this:
By content, do you mean subject matter rather than linguistic factors - as discussed briefly at http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/030714/030714-13.html? It would be interesting to compare 'apparent' gender as implied by content with linguistic gender (for want of a better expression), given the discussions earlier on this list about hiding or creating identities online.
8 by men 1 by a woman 6 by a collective (almost exclusively men) 1 by a common variety garden gnome (a "kabouter"), probably a female one 1 is a fake weblog redirecting to a pr0n site 3 are really hard to classify and 1 appears to actually be written by a dog, giving a whole new meaning to that New Yorker cartoon, 'On the internet nobody knows your a dog.'
Lol! Rowin Cross Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde
Rowin A Cross wrote:
By content, do you mean subject matter rather than linguistic factors - as discussed briefly at http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/030714/030714-13.html? It would be interesting to compare 'apparent' gender as implied by content with linguistic gender (for want of a better expression), given the discussions earlier on this list about hiding or creating identities online.
This research has been implemented in the online Gender Genie, at: http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html You can feed it text and with ~70% correctness it will tell you the gender of the author of the text. I fed it 3 of my own texts and it miss-assigned one, while correctly guessing my gender from the other 2. However, it only does this with English texts. I recon the general gist of the algoritm could be translated, but you probably need to do a lot of work to actually make it work for other languages, as language is such a intricate instrument. I'm not an expert on this algoritm, but I guess it's out for the moment for analyzing Dutch websites. So, I actually relied on my own cultural and linguistic understandings of what makes Dutch masculinity and femininity, "reading" both subject matter and linguistic patterns, although it must be said, I did so very loosely and intuitively. Frank. PS this reply is given 189 feminine and 191 masculine points by the Gender Genie, barely giving me a pass on my gender ;)
Hello Frank, Thanks for the reference, I guess I didn't think the Dutch factor through properly! Best wishes, Rowin
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Frank Schaap Sent: 27 November 2003 11:53 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] personal homepages
Rowin A Cross wrote:
By content, do you mean subject matter rather than linguistic factors - as discussed briefly at http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/030714/030714-13.html? It would be interesting to compare 'apparent' gender as implied by content with linguistic gender (for want of a better expression), given the discussions earlier on this list about hiding or creating identities online.
This research has been implemented in the online Gender Genie, at:
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html You can feed it text and with ~70% correctness it will tell you the gender of the author of the text. I fed it 3 of my own texts and it miss-assigned one, while correctly guessing my gender from the other 2. However, it only does this with English texts. I recon the general gist of the algoritm could be translated, but you probably need to do a lot of work to actually make it work for other languages, as language is such a intricate instrument. I'm not an expert on this algoritm, but I guess it's out for the moment for analyzing Dutch websites. So, I actually relied on my own cultural and linguistic understandings of what makes Dutch masculinity and femininity, "reading" both subject matter and linguistic patterns, although it must be said, I did so very loosely and intuitively. Frank. PS this reply is given 189 feminine and 191 masculine points by the Gender Genie, barely giving me a pass on my gender ;) _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l
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