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

Authors:
Carmen Stavrositu;S. Shyam Sundar
Affiliations:
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, USA;Penn State University, University Park, USA
Venue:
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2008

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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.