gender and computing

[caroline macafee]

I am involved in a research project on women and blogging. It is suggested 
that women participate in this medium at a higher level than  in other 
forms of computer-mediated communication, but that they are less likely to 
use it in the original web logging (filter blogging) function (where the 
blogger makes brief comments on sites to which links are given), and more 
likely to use blogging for a personal journal (as do many males, especially 
younger ones). There has been some hostility between the two 
sub-communities of bloggers, which has got tangled up with American gender 
politics.

I am interested in looking at this area from the point of view of gender 
differences in styles of communication, and I would very much like to hear 
from, or be put in contact with, anyone who may be working in the same, or 
a similar, area.

With thanks

Dr Caroline Macafee

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caroline macafee
c.macafee at abdn.ac.uk