Women bloggers seeking validation and financial recompense in the blogosphere.

摘要

Previous researchers investigating motivations for blogging have suggested mainly intangible benefits:for instance, documenting the author’s life, providing commentary and opinions, expressing deeply feltemotions, working out ideas through writing, and forming and maintaining communities and forums.The research detailed in this chapter focuses on the materialistic motivations of women bloggers in theU.K. and U.S. The author suggests that a need for validation and a strong financial stimulus should beadded to this list of incentives.