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Article: Computer-mediated communication: a meta-analysis of male and female attitudes and behaviors.
- Article from:
- International Journal on ELearning
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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This study quantitatively synthesized the empirical research of the gender effects on people's communicative, interactive, affective, and process patterns using computer-mediated communication (CMC). In total, 321 independent effect sizes were extracted from 50 studies involving a total of 63889 users exploring the gender difference in the use of CMC. The results show that first, on average, females had a significantly higher frequency of collaborative instances using CMC than males (mean ES=-.09). That is, females' communication tends to be more collaboratively oriented. Second, males, compared to females, posted messages more frequently and or accessed longer to the ...