Hi all, I'm in the middle of doing lit review for a MA thesis, and I'd appreciate if anyone can point me to some literature on the effects of gender and age (and maybe other factors) on people's attitudes toward various ICTs. Thanks, Chang

Hi Chang, The Oxford Internet Survey reports will have this information for the UK since 2005. They can be downloaded from: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/oxis/ Cheers, Grant --------------------------------------------------- Dr Grant Blank University of Oxford | Oxford Internet Institute 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS, United Kingdom email: grant.blank@oii.ox.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)1865 287 210 --------------------------------------------------- On 12 October 2012 03:18, Chang Z. Lin (UofT) <chang.lin@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Hi all,**** > > ** ** > > I’m in the middle of doing lit review for a MA thesis, and I’d appreciate > if anyone can point me to some literature on the effects of gender and age > (and maybe other factors) on people’s attitudes toward various ICTs.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > Chang**** > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org > >

What scholarly literature informs your hypothesis that there is a truly causal relationship between gender or age and ICT? There is a concern regarding spurious correlation. What are the actual causal factors? Adrienne Redd On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:18 PM, "Chang Z. Lin \(UofT\)" <chang.lin@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m in the middle of doing lit review for a MA thesis, and I’d appreciate if anyone can point me to some literature on the effects of gender and age (and maybe other factors) on people’s attitudes toward various ICTs. > > Thanks, > Chang > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org

Hi Adrienne, There are studies, as some on this listserv have suggested, that document significant gender and age differences in people’s attitudes toward ICTs. I don’t need to find studies about the “truly causal relationship” in this case, a strong correlation is enough because it is extremely unlikely that positive or negative attitudes toward ICTs could affect people’s gender or age. Chang From: Adrienne Redd [mailto:adrienne@redd.com] Sent: October-12-12 7:41 PM To: Chang Z. Lin (UofT) Cc: <citasa@list.citasa.org> Subject: Re: [CITASA] Studies on effects of Gender and age on attitudes ICTs What scholarly literature informs your hypothesis that there is a truly causal relationship between gender or age and ICT? There is a concern regarding spurious correlation. What are the actual causal factors? Adrienne Redd On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:18 PM, "Chang Z. Lin \(UofT\)" <chang.lin@utoronto.ca> wrote: Hi all, I’m in the middle of doing lit review for a MA thesis, and I’d appreciate if anyone can point me to some literature on the effects of gender and age (and maybe other factors) on people’s attitudes toward various ICTs. Thanks, Chang _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA@list.citasa.org http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org

One of my favorite pieces on gender and human computer interaction is Genderizing HCI from Justine Cassell. There is also a bunch of work from folks like Judy Wajcman and Jennifer Jenson and Suzanne De Castel that will surely lead you to different sources. There is a whole lot of research on the legitimacy of opinion from female and male authors on blogs when they began to come into prominence in the early 2000s. Gender Differences in British Blogging is a good starting point but it has been a few years since I put together a lit review on this stuff so I can't remember if it is a decent piece or not. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/pedersen.html Good luck! Nick On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Adrienne Redd <adrienne@redd.com> wrote: > > What scholarly literature informs your hypothesis that there is a truly causal relationship between gender or age and ICT? There is a concern regarding spurious correlation. What are the actual causal factors? > > Adrienne Redd > > On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:18 PM, "Chang Z. Lin \(UofT\)" <chang.lin@utoronto.ca> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I’m in the middle of doing lit review for a MA thesis, and I’d appreciate if anyone can point me to some literature on the effects of gender and age (and maybe other factors) on people’s attitudes toward various ICTs. > > > > Thanks, > > Chang > > _______________________________________________ > > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org > > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org > -- Nick LaLone Texas State University-San Marcos Systems Support / Sports and Leisure Lecturer www.nicklalone.com | www.beforegamedesign.com