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Mining the Blogosphere: Age, gender and the varieties of self-expression

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Argamon, Shlomo, Koppel, Moshe, Pennebaker, James W., Schler, Jonathan·2007·First Monday
DOI 10.5210/fm.v12i9.2003
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The growth of the blogosphere offers an unprecedented opportunity to study language and how people use it on a large scale. We present an analysis of over 140 million words of English text drawn from the blogosphere, exploring if and how age and gender affect writing style and topic. Our primary result is that a number of stylistic and content-based indicators are significantly affected by both age and gender, and that the main difference between older and younger bloggers, and between male and female bloggers, lies in the extent to which their discourse is outer- or inner-directed. In fact, the linguistic factors that increase in use with age are just those used more by males of any age, and conversely, those that decrease in use with age are those used more by females of any age.

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Authors
Argamon, S., Koppel, M., Pennebaker, J. W., & Schler, J.
ORCID
Venue
First Monday
Publisher
University of Illinois Libraries
Published
2007-09-03
ISSN
  • 1396-0458 (ISSN-L)
  • 1396-0466
DOI
10.5210/fm.v12i9.2003
OpenAlex
W2033444463
Cited by
210
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2026: 4 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 12
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3.53
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journal article
Language
en
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  • First Monday (publishedVersion)
  • First Monday (acceptedVersion)
  • Touro Scholar (Touro College) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Authorship Attribution and Profiling
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Digital Communication and Language
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
Keywords
blogosphere, blogging, age differences, gender differences, writing style, self-expression, blog content, corpus linguistics, English usage

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