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Posts Tagged 'gender'

A picture is worth a thousand words: A content analysis of Facebook profile photographs

This is rather odd: “None of the profile picture categories significantly differed by gender”. I would’ve thought there would be all kinds of gender differences in Facebook profile photographs. I suppose that depends on how they were coded…. ScienceDirect – Computers in Human Behavior : A picture is worth a thousand words: A content analysis […]

13 May 2011 at 19:49 - Comments

Irrelevant Wednesday: how’s about we reinforce old stereotypes in new media?

You’ll probably come across this one splashed all over the internet soon – apparently men and women are using Facebook differently. Which means we’re from different planets, of course. I mean, someone on ‘ForbesWoman’ said that ‘Experts believe the difference between how men and women operate online mirror their motivations offline’, so that must be […]

28 April 2010 at 12:00 - Comments