Designing for community: the effects of gender representation in videos on a Web site

Persistence and Change in Social Media

“…Webpages, such as those found on the now defunct Geocities, resembled texts or documents, only hyperlinked. Indeed, they were analyzed as such (Thelwall, 2004;Park, 2003;Herring & Martinson, 2002). While websites had authors, the focus was usually on content.…”

Суспільно-Політична Неолексика В Інтернет-Комунікації: Структурнофункційний Аспект

“…Members must go to the ILF Web site to post messages and access the other resources there (which include videos of teachers using inquiry methods in their classrooms); past messages remain on the site alongside current messages. For further description and analysis of the ILF, see Barab, MaKinster, & Scheckler (this volume) and Herring, Martinson & Scheckler (2002).…”

Toward Accommodating Gender Differences in Multimedia Communication

“…An analysis of a professional Web site for teachers that features 'virtual classroom visits', i.e. video clips of teachers teaching, and the asynchronous forums for discussing the videos, uncovered unintentional bias in the representation of gender [23]. Although there are more female than male teachers, females were underrepresented in video clips.…”

“…Although, no females had their videos refused (i.e. less females submitted their video clips to the web site), Herring [23] argues that designers of CMC systems should take gender into account when developing such multimodal interfaces, and more actively encourage female participation, as well as giving them more prominent position. Beyond this, very few studies, if any, have been conducted to raise any gender issues in the context of video conferencing.…”