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« More fun with Brainiac | Main | Post-Mooninite Boston » Tuesday, April 10, 2007Black bloggersA scholar at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Antoinette Pole, has completed a study of black bloggers and their interests and goals, a topic you don't hear much about. It appears she used a very small sample size of 20 but "conducted in-depth interviews." Pole estimates that in the political blogosphere, less than 1 percent of bloggers are black. But she was impressed by the level of political engagement among the bloggers she studied. She said, "I assumed these bloggers were writing about politics and policy issues, but I didn’t realize the extent to which the authors mobilize their readers and use blogs as a conduit for political participation." Her study found that black bloggers appear to have a greater desire and ability to motivate their audiences politically than do their white counterparts. This may be a sign of good news to those who speak frequently of the "digital divide" that separates the wired and unwired. Posted by Evan Hughes at 01:55 PM
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