“…When quantitatively exploring gender differences in online discussions, a predominance of the literature found that men dominated the conversational floor (Barrett & Lally, 1999;Sierpe, 2001;Yates, 2001), while still others found equal participation of women and men (Davidson-Shrivers, Morrison, & Sriwongkol, 2003;Masters & Oberprieler, 2004;McLean & Morrison, 2000;Poole, 2000). On the other hand, a number of studies revealed that women post and read more messages than their male counterparts (Anderson & Haddad, 2005;Bellman, Tindimubona, & Arias., 1993;Bostock & Lizhi, 2005;Gunn, McSporran, Macleod, & French, 2003;Wolfe, 2000).…”