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Gender While the actual world we live in is very old, the Internet world is still very young. It took thousands of years for women to earn comparable rights to men in this world. But what is and will it be like on the Internet? Writing for the Internet can be challenging. Dr. Josie Arnold examines the place of a feminist in the world of the Internet. In her article “Cybercolonisation is women's business: Writing as a feminist in the new electronic medium,” Arnold explains how feminists can have a more solid place on the Internet. At the same time, Susan Herring talks about the differences in gender. She writes in “Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication: Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier” that many of the same differences between men and women in the real world are also present in the world of the Internet. A study of Internet texts by Diane F. Witmer at the University of Purdue revealed actual differences in the online writing tendencies of men and women. She found that women use more graphic accents (smilie faces) than men. Also, men tend to use more complicated language. There are also a couple of other studies on this topic available at http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue3/savicki.html and at http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1998/oct/lapnp.html. For additional links from the entire site, click here. In conclusion, the natural differences between men and women have resulted in a somewhat different tendencies on the Internet. The writing and the tendancies of men and women are not exactly the same.