7 Responses to ““Blogging for women and girls””

1. Burningbird, on October 19th, 2004 at 7:12 pm Said:

   No, that’s not true

   From David Weinberger I found out about a “Blogging for Women and Girls” workshop in Boston. According to the event description:

   Blogging is emerging a powerful opinion-making force, but though the technology is fairly cheap and widely available…

2. Trudy W. Schuett, on October 19th, 2004 at 10:40 pm Said:

   I really wish the feminists would stop insulting women and girls online by telling us we don’t exist. Most blogs, if considered in their entirety are slightly more often authored by women.

3. Adriana, on October 20th, 2004 at 6:58 am Said:

   I wonder why it’s important to single out women (and girls) to teach them “the basics of blogging”… I don’t really care whether it’s a man or a woman or whatever who’s blogging, as long as they have something interesting to say. In fact, on internet nobody knows you’re a dog.
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4. Jaclyn, on October 20th, 2004 at 2:42 pm Said:

   Workshop organizer here. Very sorry to have caused offense.

   We should have made it clear that this was meant A) as a beginner-level course for women, which is not to suggest that all women are at the beginner level, and B) that we specifically were focusing on blogs that expicitly discuss poltics. We weren’t clear about that, and I can see how our lack of clarity has caused or underlined some negative assumptions about women and tech and the blogosphere that it was never our intention to reinforce. Quite the opposite.

   This workshop grew out of our Women and Media conference which we held last year. At a session on Feminists in Cyberspace, which we had hoped would be a large, complex discussion of how cyberspace is and isn’t different for feminists as a political medium, the participants kept bringing it back to blogs — how can I start one? what program do you use? How do people find you? Etc. So we decided to offer a workshop that addressed those questions in much greater depth than could our panelists in a 2 hour panel which had a broader focus than just blogs and blogging.

   Re: representation in the blogosphere, while it’s true, according to the studies we’ve seen, that men and women blog at relatively equal rates, what they blog about varies widely. According to one NITLE study (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education), “56 percent of all ‘personal’ blogs are maintained by females, compared to 28 percent males. [I think the missing percentage is for folks whose gender couldn’t be determined.] Amongst ‘political’ blogs, only 4 percent are maintained by females.”

   Now, the points I’ve heard about what’s “personal” and what’s “political” are well taken, and I’m going to give it a lot more thought and research. But think about who’s getting read. Who’s getting taken seriously. We think it does matter who’s on the top 100 lists. We think it absolutely does matter that women writing about politics have as wide an audience as men do. When they don’t, not only are our perspecives and concerns are removed from the public policy-making loop, but our absence appears to confirm women’s lack of authority to speak about critical political issues.

   Personally, I read a bunch of great female-written political blogs regularly, which is why I want to foster more of them, and gain them a wider audience.

   Hope this helps. Again, your points are well taken about what was left out of our event description, and some of the assumptions that makes it seem like we’ve made. Glad to be reading you all.

5. Nick Rogers, on September 19th, 2005 at 3:12 am Said:

   In today’s society, why is it necessary to advertise a course specifically for women, I find this sexist in the extreme…… I will go as far as to say that all feminists are sexist toward men. Statistics show that women use there sex to gain advancement, in work, in socialising and in general. I find your sort as disgusting, as I find Male Chauvinists. YOU DISGUST ME!!!!

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7. Women, on April 14th, 2007 at 3:36 pm Said:

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