Probably this would be helpful - more pointers to publications on gender and blogging: Book chapter - Posting with Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender by Melissa Gregg in Uses of blogs (http://snurb.info/index.php?q=node/335) Papers from AAAI 2006 Symposia on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs (http://www.aaai.org/Library/Symposia/Spring/ss06-03.php): - The Identity of Bloggers: Openness and gender in personal weblogs by Scott Nowson and Jon Oberlander - http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s9553330/papers/SS0603NowsonS.pdf - Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging by Jonathan Schler, Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon, and James Pennebaker - http://lingcog.iit.edu/doc/springsymp-blogs-final.pdf - Gender Classification of Weblog Authors by Xiang Yan and Ling - http://www.stanford.edu/~xyan/publications/SS0603YanX.pdf I also blogged some time ago on "generalising from own experiences", which for me partly explains why certain types of blogs could be misrepresented in the media - http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/12/02.html#a1866 Regards, Lilia --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lilia Efimova PhD researcher, Telematica Instituut Telematica Instituut: http://www.telin.nl PhD: http://iceberg.telin.nl Weblog: http://blog.mathemagenic.com On 10/06/07, 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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