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

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

Conference

Conference	28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	5/04/08 → 10/04/08

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Agency
Blogging
Community
Empowerment
Psychology of HCI
Social computing

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