Comments on: blogging is a privilege

By: The Power of Many

The Power of Many — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:51:50 +0000

Again with the “women and blogging” meme

Two posts turned up this week about proportions of male and female bloggers and blog-readers: Joho the Blog: Girls keep out? is entirely about it, and Political Animal: The Blogosphere… mentions it in addition to things like average education level….

By: The Power of Many

The Power of Many — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:14:46 +0000

Again with the “women and blogging” meme

By: shonk::selling waves

shonk::selling waves — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:35:27 +0000

Race, Gender and Blogging

Over at Misbehaving (an excellent site, by the way), danah boyd asks “why are bloggers mostly straight white men?” She writes: Women are often purported to be the primary social network maintainers, the communicative sex. Yet, the more time…

By: shonk::selling waves

shonk::selling waves — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:09:53 +0000

Race, Gender and Blogging

By: shonk::selling waves

shonk::selling waves — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:08:20 +0000

Race, Gender and Blogging

Over at Misbehaving (and excellent site, by the way), danah boyd asks “why are bloggers mostly straight white men?” She writes: Women are often purported to be the primary social network maintainers, the communicative sex. Yet, the more tim…

By: Blogbody

Blogbody — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:02:56 +0000

Blogging a Privilege? How about technology in general

Dana was asking the question, Is blogging a privilege. I tried to follow the leadup stories to this question, but there was way conversation flying around for my little mind to grasp. While I wouldn’t use the word privilege (or…

By: Yehudit

Yehudit — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:31:17 +0000

The only blogger who’s making a living at it is a gay white male.

Did you know there are a huge number of blogs in Iran, in both Persian and English? To the extent that Persian is the 3rd most populous blog language after English and French? Did you know that Persian bloggers and their friends pressured the Iranian govt. to release an Iranian journalist from jail before Amnesty even acknowledged the problem? These blogs are the samizdata of the Iranian people. Many of these bloggers are women and none of them are white.

There are internet cafes all over Iraq now and at least 10 Iraqi bloggers who get lots of traffic. Most of them are men but they aren’t white either. One of them blogged the huge anti-terrorism demonstrations that the Western media weren’t covering, and got a spread in Weekly Standard.

The Command Post – which was read by millions during the Iraq war and still gets lots of traffic – was started by a woman whose own blog is pretty popular.

Joi Ito isn’t white.

You need to get out more.

By: Yehudit

Yehudit — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:29:05 +0000

The only blogger who’s making a living at it is a gay white male.

The Command Post – which was read by millions during the Iraq war and still gets lots of traffic – was started by a woman whose own blog is pretty popular.

Joi Ito isn’t white.

You need to get out more.

By: BookBlog

BookBlog — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:13:21 +0000

Are Bloggers Privileged?

Danah writes that blogging is a privilege, with preference to straight white males. Maybe at the top of the Technorati

By: Sarah Bluehouse

Sarah Bluehouse — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:13:50 +0000

The thing about minority concerns and privilege is that it usually means that the dominant paradigm needs to sit down, shut up (or quit typing), and listen – very carefully to the voices that aren’t theirs. — Even if it means giving their computer away to a gay, homeless chinese woman.
But the problem that happens is that when the dominant paradigm gets smacked by the clue by 4 of privilege, they tend to spout privilege theory like buddah… turning up the volume, and appearing enlightened without actually getting the important listening part.