Certain human communication traits have historically been identified as gender-specific. The purpose of this paper is to collect and compare the most widely-indexed, gender-specific World Wide Web sites from five given interest areas, and to then determine which, if any, traditionally gender-based communication patterns were present within these sites.
Using qualitative and quantitative analysis, this study found that in many cases:
* Female-oriented sites in this study emphasized communality
* stressed sharing personal experience
* resisted authoritative language
* encouraged emotional interaction
# Male-oriented sites in this study relied on authoritative language
# emphasized privacy
# stressed professionalism
# minimized personal interaction
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Although these sites represent only a miniscule "snap shot" of communication on the Web, they seemed to suggest that the core of traditionally identified gender-specific communication traits is being actively transplanted into Cyberspace.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/105135 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Sutcliffe, Tami |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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