From: Miranda Mowbray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:06 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: M/C Reviews
Hello Cyber Society people,
Following the call for contributors from M/C, I'd like to plug my own
article in M/C's current issue:
"Neither Male nor Female: Other-gendered chat in Little Italy"
http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/gendered.html
I talk about the reasons why some citizens of the MOO Little Italy choose
presenting genders other than male or female (or the default gender), and
report the finding that in a study I did of 400 citizens, those with "other"
presenting genders were significantly more likely than those
with male/female presenting genders to still be active in the MOO a year
later.
I submitted this article in a response to a call for papers on Cyber Society
Live, so thanks to this list.
While I'm here: I remember a newspaper article earlier this year that said
that men were less likely than women to choose online pseudonyms with
a lower-case first letter, and that psychologists associated such a choice
with low assertiveness. Does anyone know a reference for either of these
statements?
Yours, Miranda.
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Miranda Mowbray, HP Labs [log in to unmask]
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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