Can blogs empower women? Designing agency-enhancing and community-building interfaces

Carmen Stavrositu; S. Shyam Sundar

doi:10.1145/1358628.1358761

Can blogs empower women? Designing agency-enhancing and community-building interfaces

Carmen Stavrositu, S. Shyam Sundar

Film-Video and Media Studies

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Abstract

The much-touted empowerment potential of blogs is empirically examined in this study through an online survey of female bloggers (N = 340). Our findings indicate that by affording users either a strong sense of community, or a deep sense of agency, or both, blogging is indeed psychologically empowering to those undertaking it. This is part of an ongoing series of investigations into the empowerment potential of Web 2.0 interfaces for marginalized groups in society. Implications for design are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	2781-2786
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358761
State	Published - 2008
Event	28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Florence, Italy Duration: Apr 5 2008 → Apr 10 2008

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Other	28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	4/5/08 → 4/10/08

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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