{"id":13290,"date":"2009-09-18T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13290"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:23:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:23:23","slug":"who-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/18\/who-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to that question matters because, even if bloggers don&#8217;t have the ability to control what we think, they do, to a certain extent, shape what we think about. \u00a0And bloggers can sometimes make enough noise to be heard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaysteiger.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/according-to-technorati-blogging-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Steiger<\/a> drew my attention to the findings of a study of the blogosphere by <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogging\/state-of-the-blogosphere\/who-are-the-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technorati<\/a>.\u00a0 Below are a selection of their findings, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogging\/state-of-the-blogosphere\/who-are-the-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">click over<\/a> for more on who blogs and answers to other interesting questions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13292\" title=\"3905002482_b7ef56e56f\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/3905002482_b7ef56e56f.jpg\" alt=\"3905002482_b7ef56e56f\" width=\"440\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13294\" title=\"chart-p1-location-2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/chart-p1-location-2.png\" alt=\"chart-p1-location-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13295\" title=\"chart-p1-salary\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/chart-p1-salary.png\" alt=\"chart-p1-salary\" width=\"500\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13296\" title=\"table-p1-usbloggers\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/table-p1-usbloggers.png\" alt=\"table-p1-usbloggers\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to that question matters because, even if bloggers don&#8217;t have the ability to control what we think, they do, to a certain extent, shape what we think about. \u00a0And bloggers can sometimes make enough noise to be heard. Kay Steiger drew my attention to the findings of a study of the blogosphere by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,29,34,55,260,290,140],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-class","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-international-comparisons","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13299,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions\/13299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}