Teachers, Blogs & the Law

Diversity and Blogs

Does the blogosphere have a diversity problem? According to a recent Newsweek article, "At a recent Harvard conference on bloggers and the media, the most pungent statement came from cyberspace. Rebecca MacKinnon, writing about the conference as it happened, got a response on the "comments" space of her blog from someone concerned that if the voices of bloggers overwhelm those of traditional media, "we will throw out some of the best ... journalism of the 21st century." The comment was from Keith Jenkins, an African-American blogger who is also an editor at The Washington Post Magazine [a sister publication of NEWSWEEK]. "It has taken 'mainstream media' a very long time to get to [the] point of inclusion," Jenkins wrote. "My fear is that the overwhelmingly white and male American blogosphere ... will return us to a day where the dialogue about issues was a predominantly white-only one."

Upon researching, I found that there are many conflicting views on the topic. Thus, is there diversity in the blogosphere? What are your thoughts on the topic? Here are some articles that I found interesting. Thanks again for visiting Teachers, Blogs & the Law. : )


Newsweek Article: Blogging Beyond the Men’s Clubhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7160264/site/newsweek/

Diversity Mongers Target the Webhttp://nationalreview.com/comment/mac_donald200503300758.asp

Journalism & Blogging: It's About Diversityhttp://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=78053

posted by Mechelle De Craene @ 2:11 AM