>Hi Nicky. Could you please give the full citation for the Herring et al >studies? Hi Jerry [7092], A few years ago I wrote a conference paper on gender and internet communication with Dr. Michael Booth. Listed in the refs are many studies from feminists and the socio-historical (Marxian inspired) school within psychology. These refs are probably out of date now, but if you (or anyone else) would like the paper let me know and I'll send it to you. Meantime, assuming the websites still work, the Herring refs are: Herring, Susan, Johnson, Deborah A., & DiBenedetto, Tamra (1995), 'This discussion is going too far!: Male resistance to female participation on the internet', in Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds), "Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self" (pp.67-96), Routledge, New York Herring, Susan (1993), 'Gender and democracy in computer-mediated communication', http://dc.smu.edu/dc/classroom/Gender.txt Herring, Susan (1994), 'Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier' http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/gender/herring.txt Try also: Lawley, Elizabeth L., 1993, 'Computers and the communication of gender', http://www.itcs.com/elawley/gender.html > >The relative 'silence' on this thread is quite interesting. Perhaps a >comparison of what happened to this (and related) threads vs. threads >on other subjects and by other subscribers will itself become a 'case study' >in a future article by Herring or someone else. Given that this gender and technology problem is a current obsession among educational psychologists, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that we are the subject of intense behind the scenes scrutiny :) Of course, the problem with 'silence' is always how to *interpret* it. Does silence reflect disinterest (no-one is listening), a pragmatic time allocation towards other topics and/or pressing life demands (people would listen if they had time), a socialisation effect (both men and women respond less to women's concerns [the topic title], and less to women's posts [my name gives me away]), or is silence itself a form of respectful 'listening' (i.e. reading and considering without jumping in)? Anyone's guess, really. comradely Nicky ps. another problem of interpretation - I've just double posted to this thread (apparently exhibiting typical male behaviour!). ----------------------- Nicola Taylor Faculty of Economics Murdoch University South Street Murdoch W.A. 6150 Australia Tel. 61 8 9385 1130 email: n.taylor@stu.murdoch.edu.au
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