Gender and the Internet: Women Communicating and Men Searching

By Linda A. Jackson, Kelly S. Ervin, P. Gardner, Neal Schmitt. 2001

742 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. J. V. van Dijk
2. A. V. van Deursen
3. Eszter Hargittai
4. Ellen J. Helsper
5. Sonia Livingstone
6. Tom Postmes
7. Agnetha Broos
8. Russell Spears

In Gender Studies

1. Eszter Hargittai
2. A. V. van Deursen
3. J. V. van Dijk
4. Xitao Fan
5. Jianxia Du
6. Sonia Livingstone
7. Timothy Teo
8. Agnetha Broos

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Eszter Hargittai
2. J. V. van Dijk
3. A. V. van Deursen
4. Ellen J. Helsper
5. Sonia Livingstone
6. Jianxia Du
7. H. Dittmar
8. Tom Postmes

Citations in the corpus

• Gender and the Internet: Causes of Variation in Access, Level, and Scope of Use (2005, background): “There is also evidence that women are more likely than men to employ the web to maintain social contacts (Howard, Rainee, and Jones, 2001; Jackson et al., 2001).”
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus? Examining Gender Differences in Self-Presentation on Social Networking Sites (2012, positive): “5 Well-established findings 6 suggest that women’s online behavior is more interpersonally oriented, while men are more task-and information-oriented.”
• Self-disclosure and Privacy Calculus on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Culture (2012, background): “While the fulfillment of task-oriented activities has traditionally been regarded as the male domain, women concentrate more on the relational and group processes which imply communication and sharing (Jackson et al. 2001, p. 368).”
• Behavior Online: Does Anonymous Computer Communication Reduce Gender Inequality? (2002, background): “Whereas men spend more time surfing, women use the Internet more for e-mail and communication ( Jackson, Ervin, Gardner, & Schmitt, 2001 ).”
• Gender differences in consumers’ perception of online consumer reviews (2011, background): “This can be one of the important reasons why females use e-mails more frequently than males [22, 30].”
• Gender and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Anxiety: Male Self-Assurance and Female Hesitation (2005, positive): “Several studies reported that men spend much more time online than women and that both sexes use the Internet 8–10 Jackson et al. 11 discovered similar results; females use e-mail more than males, and men use the Web more than women.”
• The digital divide shifts to differences in usage (2014, positive): “…likely to use the Internet’s communication tools, whereas adult males are more likely to use the Internet for information, entertainment, commerce (Jackson et al., 2001; Subrahmanyam et al., 2001; Valkenburg and Peter, 2007; Zillien and Hargittai, 2009) and online gaming (e.g. Schumacher and…”
• Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites (2007, result): “Men have been shown to spend more time online and claim higher-level skills than women (Bimber, 2000; Hargittai & Shafer, 2006; Jackson, Ervin, Gardner, & Schmitt, 2001; Ono & Zavodny, 2003), consistent with earlier literature on women and technology use more generally (Frissen, 1995; Hall &…”
• Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes towards Computer Use: A Singapore Survey. (2008, background): “Jackson, Ervin, Gardner and Schmitt (2001) indicated that female users, compared with males, are more inclined to hold negative reactions to computers and such differences may have resulted in the different ways of using computers.”
• Does home Internet use influence the academic performance of low-income children? findings from the HomeNetToo project (2003, background): “Among teens, some evidence suggests that African Americans use the Internet less than do European Americans (Hoffman & Novak, 1998; Jackson et al., 2001a; Kraut et al., 1996).”
• Gender and attitudes toward technology use: A meta-analysis (2017, background): “…feelings and emotions (e.g., comfort, anxiety, personal liking) associated with technology use (e.g., Colley & Comber, 2003; Durndell & Haag, 2002; Jackson et al., 2001; Schottenbauer, Glass, Arnkoff, & Rodriguez, 2004), personal interest and enjoyment related to the use of technology (e.g.,…”
• Buying on the Internet: Gender Differences in On-line and Conventional Buying Motivations (2004, background): “men enjoy surfing the Internet, whereas women prefer to use it for interpersonal communication (i.e., e-mail; Jackson, Ervin, Gardner, & Schmitt, 2001 ).”