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Variation In Health Blog Features And Elements By Gender, Occupation, And Perspective, Edward Alan Miller, Antoinette Pole, Clancey Bateman
Variation In Health Blog Features And Elements By Gender, Occupation, And Perspective, Edward Alan Miller, Antoinette Pole, Clancey Bateman
Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This study explores whether there are gender and occupational differences in the health blogosphere and whether there are differences by blogger perspective. Data were derived from content analysis of 951 health blogs identified between June 2007 and May 2008. Results indicate that male, physician bloggers were more likely to have blogs that feature a SiteMeter, sponsorship, and advertising, which also were more prevalent among those blogging from a professional perspective. Women, bloggers in non-health-related employment, and patient/consumer and caregiver bloggers were more likely to blog about disease and disability; men, bloggers in health-related employment, and professional bloggers were more likely …
Tort Reform And American Political Economy, Ian Drake
Tort Reform And American Political Economy, Ian Drake
Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The expansion of tort liability throughout the last century was a unique period of American legal history. In the field of products liability the expansion was dramatic; so much that it can be considered revolutionary. Also, the reaction to this expansion was so forceful that it thwarted the larger goals of the expansionary movement. This paper will review the purposes of the expansion of tort law in the twentieth century and the purposes and effects of the reaction it spurred at the state level. In short, it is my conclusion that the expansion of products liability after World War II--the …