B501 - the quote there is not really representative of the study. Here’s a larger quote:
[…] Since then scholarly interest in gender and VGI has been conspicuously absent and seemingly abandoned. Instead, limited evidence, both anecdotal and empirical, suggests that
current debates around gender in VGI play out predominantly in online forums and are focused on
overcoming hostility and creating acceptance of diversity within male dominated virtual online mapping environments, the prospect of which has been identified as a factor in alienating women from adopting technology more generally. These efforts perhaps deflect attention away from attempting to understand the real value of widening participation, a step-change which is inherent within the rhetoric around gender and VGI.
The study wasn’t about things said on forums. The reference for “current debates” that they give is “email correspondence”, “workshop discussion/participant observation”, “Mumble discussion”.