Abstract
Gender scholars have argued that existing social structures play an important role in the development and diffusion of technology. They have also suggested that technology is a multifaceted construct and that gender is implicated in all facets. As part of a larger and still-ongoing investigation, the research presented here focuses on one of the facets of a particular form of technology, namely, the practice of computer-mediated communication (CMC). The analysis of two subscription lists with a combined total of over 830 personal subscribers and 855 messages sent to the Library/Information Science Education Forum (JESSE) over a 20-month period suggests that gender has important implications in the practice of CMC. Males are more active than female subscribers and their contributions exceed their proportional representation. These findings add support to previous research on gender in electronic discussion lists.
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