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Park, Boram. "Impacts of Blogging Motivation and Flow on Blogging Behavior." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12177/.
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With the development of free and easy-to-use software programs, blogging has helped turn Web consumers into Web content providers. Blogging provides distinctive insight into comprehending e-consumer behavior explicitly with respect to social networking and information searching behaviors while facilitating a state of flow. The objectives of this study are to identify determinant dimensions of blogging motivations and flow, and to investigate the hypothesized relationships of the motivational blogging behavior. Analyzing data (n = 432) from a southwestern university, results reveal the critical dimensions of motivations, behaviors, and flow in blogging. Upon extending Hoffman and Novak's (1996) flow model, 14 out of 26 hypotheses were confirmed regarding the significant impacts of blogging motivations and flow on blogging behaviors. The findings revealed that the desire for information, enjoyment, and loyalty are the primary drivers for experiential blogging behavior. Specifically, information-seeking is the decisive motivation to urge experiential and e-shopping behavior concurrently. This study shows that indulgence and telepresence in flow might play pivotal mediating roles to promote the goal-oriented e-shopping behavior resulting enjoyment and loyalty-seeking motivations.
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Park, Boram Kim Hae Jung. "Impacts of blogging motivation and flow on blogging behavior." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12177.
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Mathews, Linda Marie. "Talking Math, Blogging Math." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1467912.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 17, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-158).
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Patchareeporn, Pluempavarn Niki Panteli. "Social identity development through blogging." Thesis, University of Bath, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601676.
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Blogs, one of the latest emerging tools for communication, are gaining widespread popularity and becoming increasingly common. More and more people blog and use blogs as a way to share information about themselves with other participants or viewers. By doing so, they create their so-called 'virtual self. 810g was chosen to be the main theme of this study not only because of its increase in user number but also its uniqueness that differentiates it from other types of online communication. This study explores social identities in blogging communities. It argues that, though the use of Slogs has been studied, emphasis has remained primarily on its types and features, rather than on how it can create social identities. This research investigates how social identity is formed and developed within blogging communities, how people present themselves in virtual communities by using blogs and how the social identity of individual bloggers influences and is being influenced by the blogging community. In addition, this study also investigates how braggers' identities have changed over time. The result shows how individual members present their identities through different roles and how these roles change over time. These issues are explored in selected bragging sites by using participant observation as the main method of data collection, and allowing the researcher to gain rich data. The collected data includes logs based on observations, together with 40 bloggers' interviews. This resulted in an extensive amount of data being gathered, which was analysed, categorised, interpreted, and summarised in relation to the framework of the study. The findings from this interpretive work were used to develop the understanding needed to answer the research questions in the form of confirming, expanding and strengthening the conceptual framework of the study. In addition, analysis reveals that social identities are created in blogging communities while bloggers adopted different types of social roles within online communities, and these have an effect on members as well as on the community in general.
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Boklage, Evgeniya [Verfasser]. "Blogging in the (counter) public sphere: The case of Russian LGBT blogging community / Evgeniya Boklage." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1154434281/34.
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Harwood, Sarah Aikat Debashis. "Corporate blogging in the technology industry." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,175.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master's of Arts in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication." Discipline: Journalism and Mass Communication; Department/School: Journalism and Mass Communication, School of.
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Tang, Hai. "The politics of blogging in China." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60111/.
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This thesis aims to conceptualize the growing use of the blog as socio-political practice in an emerging Chinese public sphere. It is built on the study of three key blogs that, for different reasons, are held to be important in the recent history of blogging in China: a sexual blog (Muzi Mei's Love Letters Left, 2003), a journalist's blog (Lian Yue's Lian Yue's Eighth Continent, 2007), and a satirical blog (Wang Xiaofeng's No Guess, 2006-2011). I say they are important because the three blogs support my central argument of this thesis: blogging can be seen as a new form of political expression/participation in China. Such expression/participation is embedded in its creative challenges and negotiations pushing the political boundaries of tolerance subsequently operating within an authoritarian media system. Through a combination of analyses, I explore how Chinese ‘intellectuals' (loosely defined as educated, urban and middle-class netizens) use their professional skills, expertise and cultural capital in the public space of the Chinese blogosphere, how their blogs reshape the form of China's political culture, and how the blogosphere, through such interventions, proceeds in the development of political communications. Through these analyses I address three key issues, all of which arise in these cases, and were drawn attention in the Chinese blogosphere from 2003 to 2011. Firstly, the rise of individualism in China, and the rise of peer-to-peer media means that bloggers who pursue self-expression simultaneously engage in political discourse through such self-expression. The three examples given in this study demonstrate that individual opinions across the blogosphere have significantly reflected public consensus and implicitly challenged orthodox political discourse. My chapter on Muzi Mei's sexual diary, for instance, explores this theme – a young woman's sexual life, I argue, works as a controversy challenging to Chinese gender politics – and perhaps translates also to become political in other ways too. Secondly, drawing on the concept of ‘blogging culture', I argue that blogging has potentially reconfigured political information (taking people's everyday lives as a starting point), increasing the visibility of political struggle and offering alternative modes of ‘public talk'. This can be seen in both the case of Lian Yue and Wang Xiaofeng – the former writes about a well-known government project – Xiamen PX event in 2007, presenting a radical practice of news reporting that has challenged the legitimacy of traditional sense of journalism in China. The latter uses satire to make fun of the State, Party leaders, mainstream media, policies and established ideologies, improving a previously restricted communicative environment towards more open. Thirdly, the Chinese blogosphere has arguably created a new generation of elites – these ‘new' elites are ‘ambiguous' or ‘dissident' elites in contrast to the older, more traditional understanding of an ‘establishment' elite. In other words, even though the orthodox elite culture promoted by politicians, celebrities and cultural elites is still the mainstream in the blogosphere, such a ‘mainstream' is gradually questioned, criticized and challenged by the commonly shared ideas, beliefs and values disseminated by Chinese radical bloggers such as Muzi Mei, Lian Yue and Wang Xiaofeng who are aware of new cultural, social and political contexts. However, as this thesis suggests, political or political-based expression in China still has to constantly negotiate with ongoing censorship, along with an unstable discursive space and thus, can only enjoy a limited success. Therefore, the Chinese blogosphere, as a public space for political communication, still has a long way to go.
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Gebhardt, Anja, and Tobias Jenert. "Besseres Feedback, mehr Reflexion? – Fertigkeiten und Einstellungen Studierender zum Bloggen in Praxisprojekten." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-76429.
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Der Beitrag untersucht die Weblog-Arbeit Studierender zur Dokumentation und Reflexion von Praxisprojekten. Zu Beginn und nach Abschluss einer Lehrveranstaltung mit Praxisphase wurden Studierende zur Weblog-Arbeit befragt. Es zeigt sich, dass die Studierenden kaum über Erfahrungen in der Nutzung von Weblogs verfügen und überwiegend negative Einstellungen zum Bloggen aufweisen. Die Blogeinträge erreichen nicht die angestrebte Reflexionstiefe. Es wird diskutiert, wie das didaktische Design gestaltet werden kann, um die gewünschten Effekte ‒ Peer-Feedback und tiefgehende Reflexion ‒ zu erreichen.
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Stephens, Michael O'Connor Brian C. "Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3915.
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Garland, Wendy. "Blogging Out of Debt: An Observational Netnography." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2004.
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The purpose of this study was to observe weblogs in their natural setting and to investigate the nature of collective learning within the debt blogging community. How individuals who blog their experiences with getting out of debt use their weblogs as well as the role of the commenter in the debt blogging process were also researched. Four distinct literature pools were used to frame this study including the theory of social constructivism, the context of communities of practice, the problem of consumer debt, and the medium of blogging. Utilizing observational netnography, six weblogs were researched which were comprised of individuals or couples trying to get out of debt or who have recently achieved that goal. The primary data included weblog entries and comments from the inception of the weblog to the date of the IRB approval. In addition, “About Me” pages, blogrolls, personal widgets, hypertext links, static text, and the visual context of the weblogs were also included as part of the data. The findings are as follows: First, the analysis of the data revealed six main themes in regard to the nature of collective learning within the debt blogging community. These weblogs (1) distinguish levels of participation, (2) unify and commit participants, (3) remove barriers, (4) contribute to personal growth, (5) allow for personal navigation, and (6) inspire/help others. Many of these themes are founded in the communities of practice literature, but were expanded in this study to illustrate understanding in the context of a weblog as a virtual community of practice. Second, research findings indicate the main uses of debt blogs were to (1) document financial life, (2) articulate opinions, (3) reach out, (4) express self, (5) build communities, and (6) promote accountability. Each of these findings with the exception of promoting accountability has been found in the literature. Accountability has two distinct components – internal and external. The debt bloggers feel obligated to post due to their own internal sense of responsibility as well as external obligation to post due to their duty to the community. This may be unique to debt bloggers or to those who blog about a specific problem. Finally, the analysis of the data provided seven distinct roles of the commenter: (1) supporter, (2) challenger, (3) confirmer/mirror, (4) admirer, (5) seeker of information/advice, (6) provider of information/advice, and (7) connector of community. The research findings revealed insights to the complex interaction of bloggers and commenters and the technical difficulty with capturing the dynamic nature of weblogs.
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Stephens, Michael. "Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3915/.
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This phenomenological study examines the motivations and experiences of librarians who author professionally-focused Weblogs. I constructed a model of librarianship based on Wilson and Buckland. The results show a close fit between librarian bloggers and the ideals of the field as expressed by two primary library and information science philosophers. A Web survey generated 239 responses to demographic and open-ended questions. Using the results of the survey, I analyzed demographic data and performed a phenomenological analysis of the open-ended questions. A list of category responses was generated from each set of answers via the coding of descriptive words and phrases. Results indicated the motivations of librarian bloggers are based around themes of sharing, participation in community, and enhanced professional development. Respondents reported feeling more connected to the profession and to colleagues across the world because of blogging. Respondents perceived the librarian blogosphere as a community with both positive aspects - feedback, discussion, and support - and negative aspects - insular voices, divides between technologists and librarians, and generational rifts. Respondents also reported an increased ability to keep current, improved writing skills, and opportunities to speak and contribute to professional journals.
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Semel, Ellen. "Storytelling, Blogging, and Empathy in School Administrators." Thesis, Hofstra University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10256300.
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This study examines whether or not empathy can be increased in school administrators through blogging. Five school administrators blogged for three months, shared posts with each other, and used narrative writing techniques. A mixed methods analysis was completed. The Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index was administered as a pre and posttest. Results were calculated using a dependent t test. No statistical significance was found. The quantitative analysis was completed using a computer assisted qualitative data analysis program called MAXQDA. The analysis revealed that the majority of posts included reflection, an essential element of empathy. Currently, school administrators have been tasked with the dual roles of leadership and management. Their interpersonal skills, especially empathy, must be honed to ensure their efficacy. The study was modeled on research completed in the medical field using physicians in training. Results from the medical field showed that blogging did increase the physicians’ capacity to change perspectives and to reflect. The difference between blogging for physicians and school administrators, though, is that blogging also served as an easy way for administrators to establish a communication and professional network. Perhaps, through blogging, it is possible to increase the administrator’s capacity for reflection, perspective taking, and ultimately, for empathy for all of their stakeholders.
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Hellström, Isabelle, and Astrid Naylor. "Cancerbloggar : Bloggförfattares upplevelser av sin sjukdomssituation och sitt bloggande." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-174035.
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Syfte: Att undersöka vad personer med cancer skriver i bloggar om sina upplevelser av sin sjukdomssituation och sitt bloggande. Metod: Deskriptiv kvalitativ studie omfattande tio bloggar. Strategiskt och maximalt varierat urval gällande kön, ålder, cancerdiagnos samt botbarhet. Bloggsökning genomfördes i sökmotorn Google. Datainsamling skedde med egenutvecklad granskningsguide omfattande två huvudfrågor med delfrågor. Dataanalys genomfördes med kvalitativ innehållsanalys enligt Granheims och Lundmans modell (2004). Resultat: Bloggförfattarna beskriver sina upplevelser av sin sjukdomssituation utifrån sina känslor, sin inställning till sjukdomen och livet, sjukdomens påverkan samt sitt förhållande till andra människor. Skribenterna beskriver betydelsen av bloggandet i förhållande till sig själva, där bloggandet upplevs utgöra en form av terapi eller copingstrategi, och i relation till läsarna, där bloggen kan innebära ett stöd eller en möjlighet att hjälpa andra. Slutsats: Då personer med cancer skriver öppet om sina upplevelser i bloggar utgör en cancerblogg ett lämpligt redskap för att öka förståelsen för cancersjukas sjukdomssituation. En blogg kan fungera som terapi och copingstrategi för cancerdrabbade. Den kan även innebära ett psykosocialt stöd, både i form av feedback från läsare och genom att ingå i ett socialt nätverk.Aim: To investigate what cancer patients write in blogs about their experiences of their situation and blogging. Method: Descriptive qualitative study of ten blogs. Strategic and maximally varied sample with respect to gender, age, diagnosis and curability. A blog search was carried out in Google. Data collection was performed with a specially developed question guide. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis according to Granheim and Lundman (2004). Results: Blog authors describe their experiences of their situation based on their feelings, their attitudes towards the disease and life, the impact of the disease and their relationship with other people. They describe the blogging in relation to themselves, perceiving it as a form of therapy or coping strategy, and in relation to their readers, seeing the blog as a way of support or helping others. Conclusions: As cancer patients write openly about their experiences in blogs, a cancer blog is a suitable tool to increase understanding of the situation of cancer patients. A blog can serve as a therapy and coping strategy for cancer patients. It can also provide psychosocial support, both in terms of feedback from readers and by enabling the author to become part of a social network.
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Hutter, Florian [Verfasser]. "Intercultural group behavior in surrounding areas of corporate blogging : Interkulturelles Mitarbeiter- und Gruppenverhalten in Corporate Blogging-Umgebungen / Florian Hutter." München : GRIN Verlag, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1188106716/34.
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Brun, Jonathan. "Blogging i PR-branschen : en ny sorts omvärldsbevakning?" Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6054.
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Purpose/aim: To clarify what information is communicated through the PR-firm JKL:s blog, how it is communicated, how it relates to and diverges from the communication theories in point, and what the strategies behind the blogging are. By doing this I hope to contribute to the knowledge on corporate blogging and how it can be used.
Material/method: Qualitative textual analysis of ten blog posts published on the JKL Blog and process seeking interview with the person in charge of the same blog.
Main results: JKLs’ blogging coincides to the most part with business intelligence, with the exception that the information doesn’t relate directly to the company’s’ main activities. This is mainly due to that they can’t publish information about their customers or competitors. Instead they want to expose the broad knowledge the company possesses, and thereby create goodwill towards their target groups. JKL can therefore be said to contribute with a different aspect to business intelligence. The blog also uses an asymmetrical PR-model with two way communication but no deep dialogue. This is not, as Grunig and Hunt argue, due to their claiming to be right in every matter, but rather to the nature of the comments given. Feedback on the blog posts is none the less important to JKL, mainly to correct and bring nuance to the information.
Key words: Blogging, corporate blogging, public relations, symmetrical/asymmetrical communication, one way/two way communication, communication strategy, business intelligence.
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Armstrong, Lin [Verfasser]. "Blogging! : How and why students blog. / Lin Armstrong." Berlin : Neopubli GmbH, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1113332182/34.
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Refaee, Eshrag Ali Ahmad. "Sentiment Analysis for micro-blogging platforms in Arabic." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3166.
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Sentiment Analysis (SA) concerns the automatic extraction and classification of sentiments conveyed in a given text, i.e. labelling a text instance as positive, negative or neutral. SA research has attracted increasing interest in the past few years due to its numerous real-world applications. The recent interest in SA is also fuelled by the growing popularity of social media platforms (e.g. Twitter), as they provide large amounts of freely available and highly subjective content that can be readily crawled. Most previous SA work has focused on English with considerable success. In this work, we focus on studying SA in Arabic, as a less-resourced language. This work reports on a wide set of investigations for SA in Arabic tweets, systematically comparing three existing approaches that have been shown successful in English. Specifically, we report experiments evaluating fully-supervised-based (SL), distantsupervision- based (DS), and machine-translation-based (MT) approaches for SA. The investigations cover training SA models on manually-labelled (i.e. in SL methods) and automatically-labelled (i.e. in DS methods) data-sets. In addition, we explored an MT-based approach that utilises existing off-the-shelf SA systems for English with no need for training data, assessing the impact of translation errors on the performance of SA models, which has not been previously addressed for Arabic tweets. Unlike previous work, we benchmark the trained models against an independent test-set of >3.5k instances collected at different points in time to account for topic-shifts issues in the Twitter stream. Despite the challenging noisy medium of Twitter and the mixture use of Dialectal and Standard forms of Arabic, we show that our SA systems are able to attain performance scores on Arabic tweets that are comparable to the state-of-the-art SA systems for English tweets. The thesis also investigates the role of a wide set of features, including syntactic, semantic, morphological, language-style and Twitter-specific features. We introduce a set of affective-cues/social-signals features that capture information about the presence of contextual cues (e.g. prayers, laughter, etc.) to correlate them with the sentiment conveyed in an instance. Our investigations reveal a generally positive impact for utilising these features for SA in Arabic. Specifically, we show that a rich set of morphological features, which has not been previously used, extracted using a publicly-available morphological analyser for Arabic can significantly improve the performance of SA classifiers. We also demonstrate the usefulness of languageindependent features (e.g. Twitter-specific) for SA. Our feature-sets outperform results reported in previous work on a previously built data-set.
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Clegg, Bridget Dearie. "Craftivista: Craft blogging as a platform for activism." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1271901842.
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Howard, Jennifer M. "Blogging politics a case study of the 2004 election /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/1384.
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Dankova, Adelina. "Between Challenge and Limitation : Blogging the Bulgarian Elections 2011." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77676.
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The constant change of the political, economic, cultural and environmental landscapes of global societies predetermined the upgrowth of the media, the journalistic writings and the blogging practices as a new way of “citizen journalism”. Political blogs are a quite new media phenomenon that gained popularity in the past few years in Bulgaria. Hence, there are limited theoretical case studies. The lagging performance of Bulgaria in the last Reporters Without Borders Report 2011 together with the explicit recommendations of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) after the Presidential and Municipal Elections 2011 in terms of media policy, ownership and news coverage bring the question of limited freedom of speech and the emergence of the blogs as an alternative platform for expression into discussion. Two methods are used in this thesis: structured interviews with two different additional questions and Critical Discourse Analysis. The empirical material was gathered from interviews with 8 of the most influential bloggers in Bulgaria (5 of whom work as journalists) and through an analysis of the texts of their blog entries (2 articles per bloggers or 18 articles in total). The aim is to underline the possible limitations in the practice of freedom of speech in Bulgaria from the bloggers’ perspective and to show only major patterns of the social environment and the current discourse in Bulgaria. Among the main findings of this study are thаt the lack of clarity in the media ownership and the failure of the media to defend the public interest are alarming for the level of democracy. Moreover, the media dependence on power and lobbying circles, as well as the blurred boundary between politics and the media results in the media self-censhorship and thus are threatening for the democratic foundation in Bulgaria and the freedom of speech which is at its basis. This study confirms the thriving of the blogosphere as an alternative media platform. This paper aims to provide insights and policy recommendations for international media experts.
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Thorson, Kjerstin. "Blogging for participants framing the candidate blog for mobilization /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6030.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 12, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Lindgren, Timothy Carl. "Place Blogging: Local Economies of Attention in the Network." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/647.
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Thesis advisor: Lad TobinThis study examines the emergence of place blogging as an online genre designed to foster a deeper sense of place and to share local knowledge. Focusing on a period between 2003 and 2006, it spotlights a transitional moment in web culture when the relationship between online life and offline life is undergoing an important shift. The bloggers highlighted in this study offer a ground-level view of how ordinary writers and readers participate in the transition to what Eric Gordon calls "network locality," a condition in which the experience of place is increasingly mediated by networked technologies. Because networked life creates an information-saturated environment in which place must compete with everything else for an increasingly scarce resource--human attention--place bloggers redefine blogging as a way to more deliberately and regularly invest attention in place. To do so, they remediate older genres to create a blogging style that differs from the political and technology blogs that were popular at the time: some draw on nature writing and diary writing (essayistic place bloggers) while others tend to draw more heavily on genres of local journalism (journalistic place bloggers). A rhetorical analysis reveals how genre remediation offers place bloggers a range of strategies for managing the flow of attention between self, place, and audience as they interact around digital objects in the network. These insights offer important contributions to scholarly conversions interested in examining how online forms of rhetoric continue to evolve and how our ideas about place are adapting to life in a networked society
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Asthana, H. "PAC'nPost : a peer-to-peer micro-blogging social network." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1457379/.
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In this thesis we provide a framework for a micro-blogging social network in an unstructured peer-to-peer network. At a user level, a micro-blogging service provides (i) a means for publishing a micro-blog, (ii) a means to follow a micro-blogger, and (iii) a means to search for micro-blogs containing keywords. Since unstructured peer-to-peer networks do not bind either the data or the location of data to the nodes in the network, search in an unstructured network is necessarily probabilistic. Using the probably approximately correct (PAC) search architecture, the search of an unstructured network is based on a probabilistic search that queries a fixed number of nodes. We provide a mechanism by which information whose creation rate is high, such as micro-blogs, can be disseminated in the network in a rapid-yet-restrained manner, in order to be retrieved with high probability. We subject our framework to spikes in the data creation rate, as is common in micro-blogging social networks, and to various types of churn. Since both dissemination and retrieval incur bandwidth costs, we investigate the optimal replication of data, in the sense of minimizing the overall system bandwidth. We explore whether replicating the micro-blog posts of users with a larger number of followers more than the posts of other users can reduce the overall system bandwidth. Finally, we investigate trending keywords in our framework. Trending keywords are important in a micro-blogging social network as they provide users with breaking news they might not get from the users they follow. Whereas identifying trending keywords in a centrally managed system is relatively straightforward, in a distributed decentralized system, the nodes do not have access to the global statistics such as the frequency of the keywords and the information creation rate. We describe a two-step algorithm which is capable of detecting multiple trending keywords with moderate increase in bandwidth.
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Афанасієва, Анастасія Олексіївна. "Fashion blogging vs magazines in rivalry for consumers attention." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2020. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/15245.
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Bartholomew, Mitchell K. "College Students' Attachment and Their Observed Community Blogging Activity." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396958884.
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Sim, Seok-hwa. "The use of blogging to enhance the learning of chinese writing in secondary school students in Singapore Zhong wen wang zhi xie zuo dui ti sheng Xinjiapo zhong xue sheng xie zuo neng li yu tai du zhi cheng xiao yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40888022.
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Heap, Tania Patricia. "An investigation into the blogging practices of academics and researchers." Thesis, Open University, 2012. http://oro.open.ac.uk/35641/.
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This research project investigated the experiences of academics and researchers using blogs to support their practice. The three research questions were: to identify the academics' and researchers' motivations for beginning and maintaining a blog, the contribution of blogging to their learning in the profession, and the challenges experienced. The research questions were investigated using several methods. Five datasets were collected from 26 participants. A questionnaire was first administered to collect background information about the bloggers, and was analysed quantitatively. Then, an initial unstructured interview of one open-ended question was conducted by email. The unstructured interview was analysed using descriptive phenomenology. A follow-on semi-structured interview was conducted and analysed by applying thematic analysis. Blog content was collected in parallel: textual extracts were analysed using discourse analysis and visual extracts by applying thematic/saliency analysis. Results revealed varied reasons for beginning a blog. For example, the blog can be used as a repository of 'half-baked' ideas. Blogging contributed to the academics' and researchers' learning in the profession in multiple ways. Academic bloggers, for example, can quickly reach a wider audience compared to other forms of academic publishing. Among the challenges, there were concerns over managing confidential information in public, and intellectual property issues. Regarding the methodological contribution of the research, suggestions on strategies for mixing and matching different research methods for data collection and analysis have been provided. An empirically-grounded framework of blog use in academia and research has been derived based on research findings and scholarship models in the literature. The framework describes how characteristics of digital scholarship such as openness and sharing, are manifested through blogging. The framework can be used to guide academics and researchers who are interested in taking up blogging as a scholarly practice. Finally, empirically-grounded guidelines on using blogs in academia and research have been derived. The guidelines were evaluated by four practitioners. Future work includes recruiting more practitioners to evaluate the guidelines.
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Clennett-Sirois, Laurence. "Women blogging in Québec, Canada : surfing between ideals and constraints." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/46815/.
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This thesis explores online practices of women in Québec, a culturally and historically distinct province in Canada that is undergoing rapid social and technological transformations, and analyses the discourses that emerge. It zeroes in on blogging, as a facilitator for exploring, constructing and challenging gendered identities. It draws on and contributes to a growing body of literature that investigates and legitimises women's online writings, an area that remains under analysed. This online ethnography was accomplished through face-to-face interviews with 23 Frenchspeaking women bloggers, home visits and an analysis of their blogs. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, the thesis analyses how informants locate themselves inside and outside traditional and mainstream discourses of femininities. It first explores how participants discuss their blogs using domestic metaphors, thereby linking their online expressions to ideas and ideals of the home. Second, it reveals how bloggers share a common concern with putting forward a favourable self, emphasising personal qualities such as education, respect, affability, and impressive online networks. Third, it analyses self-improvement narratives in participants' interviews and blog entries, examining recurring discussions of personality, values and views; body size and image; emotional and mental health; and professional and homemaking skills. The last chapter underlines how blogging provides women with opportunities for networking, a place to discuss challenges and with a means to claim time for themselves. The thesis draws out the complex engagements in an activity they find pleasurable despite working within mainstream gender role constraints and still facing a digital divide. In both discourse and practice, participants seem at ease with blogging but remain highly influenced by traditional discourses. This gives rise to a sense of contradiction where they feel like they exist, have a public life and make a contribution but also exhibit a sense of compulsion and regulation. They break out of the limits of normative femininities perhaps – at the same time creating new 'women's worlds' – even as the use of blogging reinstates and produces conservative forms of self-management.
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Saif, Ghazal. "'Blogging : keyboards fight tanks' : counter-authoritarian discourses in Egyptian blogs." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/16805/.
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This study highlights various counter-hegemonic discourses in Egyptian blogs. It underscores how bloggers protest against the authority of both state and social institutions. It departs from existing empirical research in its theoretical approach and methodology in terms of size, categorization and analysis of sample. The key empirical results of the thesis show that it is more rewarding to ‘look at what blogs are talking about’ than to ‘look for’ the applicability of a theoretical theorem to the discourse on blogs. As a result, the findings that emerged during the analysis of sample, and the postmodern theoretical trajectories that arose from the same, were not anticipated and quite insightful. Finally, this study provides a nuanced understanding of resistance-bloggers, the position of the blogosphere within the Egyptian social-nexus, upon which, it is hoped, future studies of blogs can build.
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Karvonen, S. (Senni). "On the same page:an analysis of the mommy blogging phenomenon." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201411141999.
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The study highlighted some of the central characteristics in current mommy blogging phenomenon. I examined a blog post of Divine secrets of a domestic diva which manifested an action a group of mommy bloggers took to take part in one of the latest debates in the blogosphere. Given the controversial topic, I was interested in examining the blog entry in detail, analyzing its linguistic features and seeing what kind of discourses it created or tried to replace. I was also aiming to evaluate how the post was perceived by the readers and examine the potential community development between the bloggers and readers. The questions I addressed within this framework were the following: What discourses the blog post creates and how are they articulated? How do those discourses affect the potential for a community to emerge between a group of bloggers and readers? I employed points of inquiry developed by critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003, 2010). Through the analysis of language and discourse in the blog post, I aimed to characterize the social and cultural structures behind it. I identified different perspectives and representations, i.e. discourses to four themes that I named as views of maternal roles, views of (female) social behavior, views of health, and views of postpartum body image and appearance. The discourses I identified in the material represented somewhat opposing views which was more or less expected given the debated topic of the blog post. The discourses to the theme of maternal roles were used to construct social conceptions of mothers’ and women’s roles by the participants. The two main discourses under the theme of views of maternal roles I named as idealistic motherhood and realistic or non-ideal motherhood. The discourses to the theme views of (female) social behavior were reflecting types of social behavior and traits attributed to women and mothers. The two discourses I identified within this theme were female solidarity and female disunity. These two discourses were dominant throughout the post and its comments. The discourses to the theme views of health represented two rather opposing takes on health: strict and permissive. These discourses of health were present especially in the comments section. The theme of views of postpartum body image and appearance is also a central one in this text, and it included two opposite approaches which I named acceptance and critique. The discourses I categorized were not well-defined and some overlapping also occurred between them. For instance, Kang’s image and the comments which supported her view of striving for perfection articulated the discourse of idealistic motherhood and also critique of appearance discourse. Kang seemed to represent new momism with its demands of excelling in and out of domestic sphere. The bloggers represented themselves as somewhat non-conventional mothers who do not seem to care about the postpartum body image ideals of getting back in shape after pregnancy. This argument was softened by humor which probably made it more palatable with the audience. There was also a significant mixing of discourses of female solidarity and female disunity in the bloggers’ views and their action. They supported one another and reinforced their sense of community by putting emphasis on Kang’s difference from them. Still, the bloggers managed to articulate understanding towards Kang. Although the comments this blog entry received were by large of mimicking nature or otherwise supportive, the commenters were, for the most part, left out from their action and community reinforcement efforts. Some of my findings were well in tune with previous research, especially that of Yonker’s (2012). The genre in question often aims to be radical in its portrayal of motherhood but the use of rhetorical devices such as humor and confession may imply that the bloggers are only portraying something they are not and they are acknowledging that they are doing something “wrong” according to conventional expectations. I claim that by admitting that they need an excuse for their non-ideal appearance, they actually reinforce the postpartum body ideal that Kang in this particular case and the media in general conveyTutkimukseni käsitteli nykyisen amerikkalaisen äitibloggausilmiön keskeisiä piirteitä. Tarkastelin blogin Divine secrets of a domestic diva yhtä blogikirjoitusta, jossa ryhmä äitibloggaajia otti kantaa erääseen kiistanalaiseen ilmiöön blogimaailmassa. Pyrin selvittämään, millaisia diskursseja blogikirjoitus loi tai yritti korvata. Tarkoituksenani oli myös selvittää kuinka teksti tulkittiin lukijoiden toimesta ja arvioida mahdollisen yhteisön kehittymistä bloggaajien ja lukijoiden välillä. Tutkimuskysymykseni olivat seuraavat: Mitä diskursseja blogikirjoitus luo ja miten ne on ilmaistu? Miten kyseiset diskurssit vaikuttavat mahdollisen yhteisön muotoutumiseen osanottajien välillä? Lähestyin tutkimuskohdettani kriittisen diskurssianalyysin avulla (Fairclough 2003, 2010). Löysin tekstistä erilaisia näkökulmia eli diskursseja neljään keskeiseen teemaan, jotka nimesin näkemyksiksi äidin roolista, näkemyksiksi sosiaalisesta käyttäytymisestä, näkemyksiksi terveydestä ja näkemyksiksi raskauden jälkeisestä vartalokuvasta ja ulkonäöstä. Löytämäni diskurssit edustivat pitkälti vastakkaisia näkemyksiä, mikä oli osittain odotettavissa kiistanalainen aihe huomioonottaen. Äidin rooliin liittyvät diskurssit rakentavat sosiaalisia käsityksiä äitien ja naisten rooleista, ja nimesin sen sisällä olevat kaksi dominoivaa diskurssia idealistiseksi ja realistiseksi (ei-ideaali) äitiydeksi. Naisten sosiaalista käyttäytymistä kuvaavat diskurssit jakautuivat myös kahteen vastakkaiseen leiriin: solidaarisuus ja epäyhtenäisyys. Nämä kaksi diskurssia olivat dominoivia blogikirjoituksessa ja sen saamissa kommenteissa. Terveysteemaan liittyvät diskurssit nimensin tiukaksi ja sallivaksi näkemyksiksi, ja ne tulivat esille etenkin kommenttiosiossa. Näkemykset raskauden jälkeisestä vartalokuvasta ja ulkonäöstä olivat myös keskeisiä ko. tekstissä ja nimesin siihen liittyvät diskurssit hyväksynnäksi ja kritiikiksi. Diskurssit, jotka tekstistä löysin eivät olleet selvärajaisia ja olivat osin päällekkäisiä. Blogikirjoitukseen osallistuneet bloggaajat vahvistivat omaa yhteisöään korostamalla eroa kritiikin kohteena olevaan Kangiin. Vaikka blogikirjoitus sai paljon kannustavaa palautetta lukijoilta, sitä kommentoivat kirjoittajat jäivät kuitenkin bloggaajien muodostaman yhteisön ja heidän yhteisen kannanottonsa ulkopuolelle
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Habegger, Michael Warren. "Learning to Do Democracy: Deliberative Capacity in Political Blogging Communities." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34053.
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This thesis demonstrates that participants in Political Blogging Communities increase their deliberative capacity over time, potentially enabling them to participate in democratic societies. The study unifies perspectives on the meaning of blogs in American politics. It presents a unique theoretical framework that incorporates community and social learning literatures. The Internet is thought to potentially enable a revitalization of democracy because of its political and communicative properties. While studies have looked to deliberation in online forums, this study specifically targets Political Blogging Communities. Blogs have been targeted by a diverse range of scholars and methods that raise questions of their role in emphasizing the constitutional ideal of deliberation. Daily Kos and Red State are among the most popular political discussion sites, but are generally under-investigated in the literature. The theoretical framework and results presented here suggest that they are places where democratic capacity increases. A pilot study provided encouraging results. Because Political Blogging Communities talk about public issues, have several aspects of a supportive community, and feature contributions from ordinary people, they foster an adherence to deliberative norms. The sampling frame sought dedicated participants in an effort to approach the question of social learning over time. To address these questions, the deliberative content of 373 diaries from 20 authors at Daily Kos and Red State was hand coded. This Thesis makes two principal contributions: (1) it introduces a new measure that assesses deliberative quality is introduced, and (2) finds that the diversity of deliberative content in political blogs increases over time.Master of Arts
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LIM, HEE YOUNG. "Blogging and EFL Writing: What Does the Research Tell Us?" The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1482238940724771.
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Sharber, Shelli K. "Blogging and Tweens: Communication Portal to Reading Selection and Engagement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115155/.
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The ethnographic study utilized the research techniques of observations, content analysis, and semi-structured interviews with tween participants (i.e., 9 through 13 year-old youth) during an 8-week literary blog project. Twenty-six participants created individual blog pages within a member-only classroom blog site that allowed for online communication between members. the blog project incorporated social networking applications with which youth frequently engage. the research questions ensured data regarding what facets participants found appealing and motivating during the project was collected. the questions allowed for determining if participants utilized peer blogs for reading material selection or repurposed the blogs to discuss other topics. Components of self-determination theory and engagement theory underlay the project design and aided in identifying motivational aspects of the data. Frequency tables outlined the identified patterns and structures of participants’ online activity. Participants found the ability to change the colors of their blog backgrounds and to design their individual blogs and the giving and receiving of feedback to be the two most appealing features of the project. Participants chose books from peer suggestions in the online world but also selected materials from recommendations they received in face-to-face interactions with their peers, their teacher, and the school librarian. Little evidence of repurposing the blog for social topics was observed. Participants engaged in discussions predominantly based around the books they were currently reading or had read. Implications for incorporating social networking applications within the classroom environment are discussed.
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Sanikidze, Kakhi. "Blogging Eurovision: An Unconventional Online Space for Everyday Political Talk." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325391.
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The paper starts by providing the overview of the Eurovision Song Contest, its participant countries and the audience. The aim of the research is to find out how everyday political talk takes place on non-political platforms. For this study, a blog dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest was chosen. The research is netnographic, and the conclusions are drawn based on content analysis (the comments left on the Eurovision news blog - Wiwibloggs.com) and interviews with the journalists of the blog. The paper approaches the blog as anon-institutionalized space, also known as “the third space.” It covers issues such as nation branding, communication in an anonymous setting and deliberative democracy. The paper further analyses different characteristics of the content shared on the blog and answers a question on whether such content is agonistic or antagonistic by nature.
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Ayers, Michael Patrick. "Toward authentic audiences : blogging in a high school English classroom." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2669.
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Though researchers have discussed adolescents' uses of social media and Web 2.0 texts outside school, little research has analyzed how such texts are used in classrooms. This study examines various perspectives on a group of high school students engaged in blogging as part of two language arts courses over an eight-month period. Research questions focused on how students conceived of and interacted with their readers, how they used structural features of the blogging platform to connect their blogs to one another, and how discourses of freedom of speech online led a few students to transgress school norms. To answer these questions, I studied examples of eighty classroom blogs from my own high school students, conducted interviews with eight students, and maintained researcher field notes. I analyzed this data using a combination of discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, while applying social network analysis to understand how the blogs were connected through the key feature known as Following. My findings suggest that the connectivity offered by Web 2.0 enabled students to reach and communicate with authentic audiences who could recognize and validate their identity performances. Further, I argue that though certain features of Web 2.0 media are incongruous with many conventional classroom norms, teachers should work to bridge those gaps.
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Fesmire, Diana Sue. "Predicting Mathematics Teachers' Acceptance of Reflective Blogging to Improve Instruction." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2925.
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An internal district audit identified that a rural, socioeconomically disadvantaged Southwestern school district has a lack of congruent and consistent implementation of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics. Innovative and cost-saving avenues for professional development (PD), such as reflective blogging, foster teacher learning to reconcile the enacted curriculum with the intended curriculum. This correlational study investigated the predictive power of technology acceptance and motivation constructs on reflective mathematics teachers' social media use intention and participation in informal, virtual Communities of Practice (vCoP). The framework that guided this study is the unified acceptance and use of technology and self-determination theory. English-speaking mathematics teachers who read, comment, and write reflective blogs within informal vCoP participated in the study (n = 104), with a response rate of 26.4%. The study employed 2 data collection methods: an automated tool that measured the intensity of participation in vCoP and an online survey measuring predictive constructs. Multiple linear regression analysis identified performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and intrinsic motivation as significant predictive constructs of social media use intention. The regression identified no significant predictor constructs of social media use behavior. Study results form the basis of a blended PD module created for rural mathematics teachers on the benefits of participation in informal vCoP. This study and resulting project contribute to positive social change for rural mathematics teachers by creating an environment to encourage personal reflection and collaboration with virtual colleagues and ultimately improve mathematical instructional practices.
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Antunes, Michele. "Avaliação de blogs sobre cateterismo vesical na perspectiva de acadêmicos de enfermagem." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/117441.
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O presente estudo objetiva analisar a avaliação de acadêmicos de Enfermagem sobre blogs de cateterismo vesical de demora. Trata-se de uma investigação exploratória e descritiva com abordagem quantitativa, realizada na Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), com 98 estudantes matriculados na 5ª, 6ª ou 7ª etapa do curso, no período de 2014/2. Foram avaliados dois blogs sobre o tema e preenchido o formulário de avaliação. Os dados foram analisados utilizando-se o programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versão 21.0, com nível de significância de 5% (p≤0,05). O estudo foi aprovado pela Comissão de Pesquisa da Escola de Enfermagem (COMPESQ) e pelo Comitê de Ética e Pesquisa da UFRGS (nº 648.653). A autoria dos blogs foi identificada por 96 estudantes (98%) no Blog 1 e por 13 (13%) no Blog 2 (p<0,001). Na identificação da formação profissional do autor do blog, 96 estudantes (98%) indicaram o Blog 1, ao passo que, no Blog 2, 1 estudante (1%) o fez (p<0,001). As indicações do procedimento foram identificadas por 70 estudantes (71,4%) no Blog 1 e por 14 (14,3%) no Blog 2 (p<0,001); em relação aos cuidados antes e após a realização do procedimento, 19 alunos (19,4%) os identificaram no Blog 1 e 8 (8,2%) no Blog 2 (0,013). Os comentários sobre a postagem do procedimento foram identificados por 8 (8,2%) no Blog 1 e por 31 (31,6%) no Blog 2, com significância p<0,001. Quanto à interface do blog, 19 estudantes (19,4%) identificaram o objetivo desta no Blog 1 e 10 estudantes (10,2%) no Blog 2 (p=0,035); 11 (11,2%) assinalaram que o Blog 1 indica links e hiperlinks sobre o procedimento e 30 (30,6%) sobre o Blog 2 (p=0,002). Quanto ao fato de possuir links publicitários, 46 estudantes (46,9%) os identificaram no Blog 1 e 86 (87,8%) no Blog 2 (p<0,001); o interesse comercial declarado foi identificado por 9 alunos (9,2%) no Blog 1 e por 38 (38,8%) no Blog 2 (p<0,001); declararam verificar conflitos de interesse 11 estudantes (11,2%) no Blog 1 e 27 (27,6%) no Blog 2; observaram a data das últimas atualizações 18 estudantes (18,4%) no Blog 1 e 47 (48%) no Blog 2 (p<0,001). Os estudantes consideram positiva a avaliação dos blogs quanto a interface e algumas variáveis do conteúdo, e mesmo assim não os indicam. A partir disto, pode-se afirmar que, apesar de os alunos acreditarem na adequação da estrutura e do conteúdo dos blogs, não os consideram confiáveis.The objective of this study is to analyze the evaluation of Nursing students about blogs with posts describing indwelling catheterization. This is an exploratory and descriptive study with a quantitative approach, which was developed in the Nursing School of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), with 98 students registered in the 5th, 6th or 7th period of the course, in 2014/2. Two blogs about the subject were evaluated and a form for the evaluation was completed. Data were analyzed through the program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0, with significance of 5% (p≤0.05). The study was approved by the Research Committee of the Nursing School (COMPESQ) and by UFRGS's Research Ethics Committee (n. 648.653). The authorship of the blogs was identified by 96 students (98%) in Blog 1 and by 13 (13%) in Blog 2 (p<0.001). Regarding the identification of the professional training of the blog's author, 96 students (98%) indicated Blog 1 while only 1 student (1%) indicated Blog 2. The indications for the procedure were identified by 70 students (71.4%) in Blog 1 and by 14 (14.3%) in Blog 2 (p<0.001); concerning care before and after the procedure, 19 students (19.4%) identified it in Blog 1 and 8 students (8.2%) in Blog 2 (0.013). The comments related to the post about the procedure were identified by 8 (8.2%) in Blog 1 and by 31 (31.6%) in Blog 2, with significance of p<0.001. Regarding the blogs' interface, 19 students (19.4%) identified the objective of it in Blog 1 and 10 students (10.2%) in Blog 2 (p=0.035); 11 (11.2%) said that Blog 1 presents links and hyperlinks about the procedure and 30 (30.6%) said the same about Blog 2 (p=0.002). About the fact of having advertising links, 46 students (46.9%) identified them in Blog 1 and 86 (87.8%) in Blog 2 (p<0.001); the declared commercial interest was identified by 9 students (9.2%) in Blog 1 and by 38 (38.8%) in Blog 2 (p<0.001); conflicts of interest were seen by 11 students (11.2%) in Blog 1 and by 27 (27.6%) in Blog 2; the last updates' dates were identified in Blog 1 by 18 students (18.4%) and in Blog 2 by 47 students (48%) (p<0.001). The students considered positive the blogs' evaluation regarding their interface and some content variables, yet they would not indicate the blogs. Considering that information, it is possible to say that, despite the students' belief in the appropriateness of the structure and content of the blogs, they do not consider them reliable.
Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la evaluación de los estudiantes de Enfermería sobre los blogs de cateterismo vesical de demora. Se trata de una investigación exploratoria y descriptiva con un enfoque cuantitativo, realizado en la Escuela de Enfermería de la Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), con 98 estudiantes, matriculados en el 5ª, 6ª o 7ª etapa del curso, en el período de 2014/2. Se evaluaron dos blogs sobre el tema y se rellenó el formulario de evaluación. Los datos fueron analizados mediante el programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), versión 21.0, con un nivel de significación de 5% (p≤0,05). El estudio fue aprobado por el Comité de Investigación de la Escuela de Enfermería (COMPESQ) y por el Comité de Ética y Investigación de la UFRGS (nº 648.653). La autoria de los blogs fue identificada por 96 estudiantes (98%) en el Blog 1 y por 13 (13%) en el Blog 2 (p<0,001). En la identificación de la formación del autor del blog, 96 estudiantes (98%) indicaron el Blog 1, mientras que en el Blog 2, 1 estudiante (1%) lo hizo (p<0,001). Las indicaciones para el procedimiento fueron identificadas por 70 estudiantes (71,4 %) en el Blog 1 y por 14 (14,3%) en el Blog 2 (p<0,001). En los comentarios sobre la publicación del procedimiento, se identificaron 8 (8,2 %) en el Blog 1 y 31 (31,6%) en el Blog 2, con una significación de p<0,001. En lo que respecta a la interfaz del blog, 19 estudiantes (19,4%) identificaron el objetivo de esta en el Blog 1 y 10 estudiantes (10,2%) en el Blog 2 (p=0,035); en cuanto al hecho de que tiene enlaces de publicidad, 46 estudiantes (46,9%) lo identificaron en el Blog 1 y 86 (87,8%) en el Blog 2 (p<0,001); el interés comercial declarada ha sido identificado por 9 estudiantes (9,2%) en el Blog 1 y por 38 (38,8%) en el Blog 2 (p<0,001); declararon identificar conflictos de interés, 11 estudiantes (11,2%) en el Blog 1 y 27 (27,6%) en el Blog 2; observaron la fecha de las últimas actualizaciones, 18 estudiantes (18,4%) en el Blog 1 y 47 (48%) en el Blog 2 (p<0,001). Los estudiantes consideran la evaluación de los blogs positiva en lo que respecta al interfaz y algunas variables del contenido, y aún así no lo indican. A partir de esto, se puede afirmar que, a pesar de que los estudiantes creen en la validez de la estructura e del contenido de los blogs, no los consideran fiables.
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Jendoubi, Sonya. "An Audience Reception Analysis of the Depth and Breadth of Lifestyle Blogging Communities." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1486.
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Lifestyle blogging has become a vast and profitable domain, with visitors engaging with new content in a variety of ways. The communities that begin to form around these blogs has rarely been analyzed, due to a lack of metrics and a complex definition of virtual communities. Relying on Henry Jenkins work on virtual communities, a set of metrics were used to analyze the depth and breadth of three communities: A Cup of Jo, Wit & Delight, and Cupcakes and Cashmere. The three areas these metrics worked to measure were: awareness, membership, and belonging. Through this audience reception study the clear marker of a community was the direct and systematic blogger engagement with the readership. Many other factors are influential in building a virtual community on a blog, however, what set the three blogs apart was the ways in which Joanna Goddard (A Cup of Jo) and Kate Arends (Wit & Delight) reached out and built relationships with their readers, strengthening their community and allowing it to thrive.
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Zapata, César, and Christoffer Jakobsen. "Feasibility Study of a Plug-in Based Architecture for Mobile Blogging." Thesis, Jönköping University, JTH, Computer and Electrical Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-989.
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There is no standard format for posting blog entries, which results in many different web feed formats and APIs being used. This thesis work addresses the problem by determining the feasibility of the development of a plug-in based architecture, used in a mobile blogging application compatible with multiple service providers.
During the study, a definition of what a feasible architecture would be was made based on requirements set by the stakeholders. Six models that complied with this definition were designed and compared. One of them was selected for prototyping. The prototyping phase was intended to test if the architecture could be implemented in a mobile environment. The study revealed that it is feasible to develop a plug-in based architecture to solve the problem, although with some limitations due to the dependency of libraries for streaming XML transformations not yet implemented in J2ME.
Det finns inget standardformat för att posta ett blogginlägg, vilket resulterar i att många olika web feed-format och APIer används. Det här examensarbetet angriper problemet genom att undersöka om det är genomförbart att utveckla
en plug-inbaserad arkitektur för en applikation till mobiltelefoner, som är kompatibel med flera olika bloggtjänster.
Under studiens gång definierade vi vad termen genomförbart skulle innebära, baserat på krav från olika intressenter. Sex modeller som uppfyllde definitionen utvecklades och jämfördes. En av dessa valdes ut för att användas som grund
för en prototyp. Prototypfasen avsåg att bevisa om arkitekturen kunde implementeras i en mobil miljö. Studien visade att det är genomförbart att utveckla en plug-inbaserad arkitektur för att lösa problemet, dock med några begränsningar på grund av beroende av bibliotek för strömmande XMLtransformationer som ännu inte implementerats i J2ME.
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Korkmazgil, Sibel. "How Does Blogging Enhance Pre-service English Language Teachers'." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610573/index.pdf.
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This was a case study which aimed to examine how blogging enhanced reflection among pre-service English language teachers in Practicum. 12 pre-service English language teachers enrolled in the undergraduate program of English Teaching Education in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University participated in the study which comprised a 12-week time span in the 2007-2008 spring term.
Data collection consisted of archival records of participants&rsquoblog posts and comments, pre- and post-study interviews with each pre-service teacher, and field notes taken by the researcher throughout the study. All the blog content was archived and available on the Internet throughout the study. Recurring patterns in pre-service English language teachers&rsquo
blog postings were used as a measure of their reflectivity. Earlier and later blog postings were compared to check evidence of change in the level of the pre-service teachers&rsquo
reflective thinking. Results indicated that: (1) the pre-service English language teachers frequently discussed their personal theories of teaching, the problems that they formulated based on their practicum observation, and topics related to their self-awareness in their blog postings
and (2) they were reflective in their blog postings, to a certain extent, although there were individual differences in the degree of reflectivity in the identified categories. In this respect, this blogging experience provided a different approach to develop reflectivity in Practicum. Therefore, this study may be an example to investigate the effectiveness of blogs in language teacher education, especially in a Turkish context where English is learned and taught as a foreign language.
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McNamara, Karen. "Blogging breast cancer language and subjectivity in women's online illness narratives /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4111.
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Echols, Erin V. "Give Me That Online Religion: Religious Authority and Resistance Through Blogging." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/39.
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This study of forty-nine Christian blogs explores how groups of bloggers in two case studies resist and/or perpetuate hegemonic gender ideologies online and where these bloggers draw authority from for these views. The findings reveal that bloggers are most likely to cite texts as sources of authority and are more likely to affirm authority (78.1%) than to challenge it (25.7%). The bloggers in my sample, who were majority male, use an array of strategies in their efforts to resist hegemonic gender norms. These included, but are not limited to, debating God’s gender, emphasizing women’s roles in the Bible, privileging equality in theological interpretations, redefining masculinity and employing satire and images to delegitimize hegemonic power.
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Grech, Alexander. "Blogging the hyperlocal : the disruption and renegotiation of hegemony in Malta." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7147.
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This thesis examines how blogging is being deployed to disrupt institutional hegemony in Malta. The island state is an example of a hyperlocal context that includes strong political, ecclesiastical and media institutions, advanced take-up of social technologies and a popular culture adjusting to the promise of modernity represented by EU membership. Popular discourse is dominated by political partisanship and advocacy journalism, with Malta being the only European country that permits political parties to directly own broadcasting stations. The primary evidence in this study is derived from an analysis of online texts during an organic crisis that eventually led to a national referendum to consider the introduction of divorce legislation in Malta. Using netnography supplemented by critical discourse analysis, the research identifies a set of strategies bloggers used to resist, challenge and disrupt the discourse of a hegemonic alliance that included the ruling political party, the Roman Catholic Church and their media. The empirical results indicate that blogging in Malta is contributing to the erosion of the Church’s hegemony. Subjects that were previously marginalised as alternative are increasingly finding an online outlet in blog posts, social media networks and commentary on newspaper portals. Nevertheless, a culture of social surveillance together with the natural barriers of size and the permeability of the social web facilitates the appropriation of blogging by political blocs, who remain vigilant to the opportunity of extending their influence in new media to disrupt horizontal networks of information exchange. Blogging is increasingly operating as a component of a hybrid media ecosystem that thrives on reflexive cycles of entertainment: the independent newspaper media, for long an active partner in the hegemonic set up in Malta, are being transformed and rendered more permeable at the same time as their power and influence are being eroded. The study concludes that a new episteme is more likely to emerge through the symbiosis of hybrid media and reflexive waves of networked individualism than systemic, organised attempts at online political disruption.
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Golbuff, Laura. "Moving beyond physical mobility : blogging about cycling and urban transport policy." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73196/.
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It is often acknowledged that movement exists in multiple, interdependent forms and that we live in an Information Age. However, mobilities perspectives on contemporary cycling tend to neglect the a) interconnections between transport (physical mobility of people and objects) and communication (mobility of symbolic information) b) paradigmatic shifts in modernity that affect how and why we communicate about transport. This thesis responds to such neglect. Firstly, it places urban cycling in an internet context by examining practices and perceptions of policy blogging, asking why do individuals blog about cycling-related transport policy and to what effect? Secondly, it analyses the answers to these questions through the theoretical lens of the risk society and reflexive modernisation theses. Empirical data is the result of 46 semi-structured interviews with bloggers and expert system representatives, mostly in London, New York and Paris. Blogging about cycling-related transport policy is shown to be an individualised response to the perceived failings of expert systems, as well as in Giddens’ words, a ‘reflexive project of the self’. Citizens who may otherwise only be policy subjects or passive consumers of transport, emerge as policy, media and civil society actors by virtue of their ability to publish information, which forms the basis of social relations. Through blogging, they produce and mobilise knowledge. Knowledge claims mediated by blogging interact with expert systems responsible for transport, which in turn adapt; routine institutional practices evolve; a new order emerges; blogging makes a difference. That difference is however limited, not least because the public remains reliant on expert systems. Ultimately, despite the obvious importance of physical mobility to cycling, this thesis seeks to move beyond it. Information and communication technologies have radically altered how we - researchers, the public, expert system representatives - communicate about and understand cycling, and as such, this project argues for a renewed emphasis on mobilities in a genuinely plural sense of the word as being about more than physically moving from A to B.
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Lima, Marcela 1981. "O blogging como prática dialógica : relações intergenéricas em reviews de tecnologia." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269601.
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Orientador: Raquel Salek FiadTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Esta tese investiga Reviews de Tecnologias, gênero discursivo utilizado por dois blogueiros estudantes da área da Ciência da Computação. O blog por eles idealizado é mantido de maneira independente (sem patrocínios) e visa ao compartilhamento gratuito, via Internet, de informações técnicas, estéticas e funcionais sobre smartphones e tablets. O objetivo geral deste trabalho é discutir, com base na teoria delineada pelo Círculo de Bakhtin, o referido gênero como uma ferramenta relevante para 1. O posicionamento do blog e dos blogueiros (sujeitos-escreventes), perante sua audiência, como 'meio participativo/colaborativo' e 'colaboradores experts em tecnologias móveis', respectivamente; e 2. o engajamento dos blogueiros em práticas enunciativas verbo-visuais que (se) constituem (n)as chamadas Culturas Participativas do Século XXI. Para a realização da pesquisa, foram selecionados os 8 reviews produzidos e publicados entre 23/10/2009 e 31/03/2012, em relação aos quais se procedeu à investigação quanto ao conteúdo temático, estilo e construção composicional. Procurando-se construir uma articulação entre a micro e a macroanálise do objeto de pesquisa, buscou-se explorar dados da situação enunciativa. De modo geral, a análise da forma composicional e do estilo, em sua relação com o todo dos enunciados, permite constatar que, no contexto estudado, o Review de Tecnologias é um gênero repleto de intercalação de vozes de diversas esferas, especialmente a jornalística e a acadêmica
Abstract: This thesis investigates Technology Reviews, a discursive genre utilized by two bloggers who are students in the field of Computer Science. The blog designed by them is independently maintained (without sponsorship) and aims to freely share via the Internet technical, aesthetic and functional information about the interface of smartphones and tablets. Based on the theory outlined by the Bakhtin Circle the aim of this research is to discuss the Technology Reviews genre as a relevant tool to: 1. Positioning the blog and bloggers (subject-writers) before their audience as a `participatory/collaborative medium¿ and as 'expert reviewers of mobile technologies', respectively; and 2. Engaging the bloggers in verbal/visual enunciative practices that constitute and are constituted by the so called Participatory Cultures of the 21st Century. For the research we selected 8 reviews produced and published between October 23rd 2009 and March 31st 2012 which were analyzed in terms of their content, style and compositional construction. Seeking to build a link between the micro and the macro-analysis of the object of research we sought to explore the data from the enunciative situation. Overall, the analysis of the compositional form and style in its relationship with all the sentences reveals that, in the context studied, the Review of Technologies is a genre filled with overlapping voices coming from various spheres, especially the journalistic and academic ones
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Lashley, Brandon Christopher. "Communicating Community at Tesla Motors: Maintaining Corporate Values in Blogging Communities." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78222.
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Knowing how organizations engage employees can help researchers and practitioners better understand how to effectively communicate and engage employees to create an efficient and collaborative work environment. This research sought to discover if Tesla Motors strategically communicated values from its Master Plan through company blogs to create an imagined community. The theory of imagined communities provided the theoretical foundation. This research used a content analysis of words and phrases within Tesla's Master Plan and 2015 corporate blog. Although the blog provided some indication that it was communicating values, this study concluded that the Master Plan did not provide enough value information to support a strategic imagined community. This study does, however, imply that imagined communities can be used in public relations research.Master of Arts
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Steffen, Lili Margit, and Lili Margit Steffen. "Potential Effects of Censorship on the Pro-Anorexia Tumblr Blogging Community." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625157.
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Anorexic individuals have long been creating their own support communities to cope with the
psychological distress of living with an eating disorder. This behavior has transferred to online
platforms such as Tumblr. In these digital spaces exists pro-anorexia blogging, a fluid group of
users who post about their experiences living with anorexia while interacting with other bloggers
to access information that appears to be supportive of anorexic behaviors. Pro-ana bloggers form
not only a community, but an information community that is targeted by heavy forms of
stigmatization. Due to external evaluation that deems their blogging content controversial or
illicit, this community has been subjected to censorship, sometimes in the form of
criminalization. This study focuses on how the heavy stigmatization and censorship pro-ana
communities face affects its members. This goal is achieved through a literature review
integrated with original ethnographic observations. Censorship may actually harm this
community rather than help it, as it has it been shown that pro-anorexia users migrate or become
more insulated, and thus more inaccessible and alienated. Moving forward, it is important for
scholars to reframe how they approach these communities, especially by centering the voices of
pro-ana bloggers.
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Stang, Katy Leigh. "The role of fashion and fatshion blogging in college women's negotiation of identity." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1762.
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In recent years, the salience of obesity and body image in society has given rise to a "fat activist" movement dedicated to defending non-normative body types. This activism has extended to the online environment, in which groups who are ostracized from the traditional realm have taken to blogging as a form of resistance and expression. The term "fat" has been reclaimed by the movement as a term of emancipation and defiance. The so-called "fatshion" blogs have a growing audience, and there is a burgeoning scholarly literature on this phenomenon. The aim of this research was to investigate college-aged females who identify as "fat," who may or may not have been exposed to the online fatshion (fat fashion) market or blogs. Are these blogs being used as resources for these women? Do they even know these websites exist? Thus, the aim of this study was to discover what the current fashion sector is like for those who may not participate as heavily within these communities.
The main objective of this study was to find how plus-size women's fashion choices are shaped by the dominant discourses of the body and how this, in turn, influences their shopping experiences. By conducting semi-structured interviews along with participants filling out a small questionnaire, an in-depth look at the personal thoughts and feelings of fat women outside of this movement was explored. Fatshion was studied through four theoretical lenses: as a counter-discourse, as a place for identity construction, as a mode of gender performativity, and how fatshion is informed by intersectionality of race, class, and gender. Based on the interview data, the study found that the messages found on fatshion blogs have the potential to spark opposition in ways that mobilize a more positive self-image as well as nonconformist self-presentations through a heightened awareness of the possibilities for opposing dominant ideologies.
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Häll, Jerry, David Ozdoba, and Matz Thunberg. "BLOGGING FOR TRUST? An Examination of Executive Blogs From A Trust Perspective." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Business Administration, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4494.
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In recent years, blogs, which can be described as online journals, have started to reach a broad audience. One type of blog emerging has been the executive blog, which is maintained by a person holding an executive position within a company. Theory suggests that one possible area of use for executive blogs is to build trust.
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine whether executive blogs are used for building trust and if trust is created. A deductive research approach, mixed with some characteristics of an inductive approach, is adopted for the research.
Based on trust theory, three executive blogs are examined to see if it is possible to find indications of executives signaling trustworthiness, site design characteristics signaling a trustworthy environment, and readers signaling perceived trustworthiness. By using a manual, qualitative data collection method, blogposts and comments are examined.
The findings indicate that it is possible to find indications of executives signaling trustworthiness, site design characteristics signaling a trustworthy environment, and readers signaling perceived trustworthiness. Findings of how this is done are visualized in models. Suggestions for further research include examining executive blogs from a knowledge management perspective.
Since no study found by the authors of this dissertation has examined executive blogs from a trust perspective, the results of this dissertation may be useful to shed light on this possible area of use. The results may also be useful for executives who are blogging as well as executives who plan to start blogging, with the aim of building trust on their blogs.
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Shao, Yinjuan. "Mobile group blogging in learning : a case study of supporting cultural transition." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11278/.
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A mobile group blog is an example of a Web 2.0 social space, as well as a tool for the instant collection of contextual information, the immediate sharing of information and later reflection. Records in the form of multimedia created through mobile blogging can assist people to keep a versatile representation of artefacts they encounter on the move in everyday life. Overseas students are an example of a large group of people whose cultural learning could be supported by this technology. They could share contextual information and their own stories with other people currently experiencing the host culture, as well as people who do not have the opportunity to experience the host culture first-hand. To examine and evaluate how the mobile group blog could be applied in learning, a case study was conducted on involving overseas students. This research explored the suitability, appropriateness and benefits of a mobile group blog in assisting overseas students to manage their culture shock. It illustrates how the mobility of mobile devices assists the capture of contextual information on the move when overseas students start adapting to the new environment. The group blog site provided a platform to share and exchange their experiences and thoughts, as well as a resource of information on authentic cultural transition for future students. Four sub-studies were conducted around this theme. The first two studies investigated the demands and needs of a mobile group blog application in cultural transition. The third study investigated real and practical mobile blogging activities with a group of twelve Chinese overseas students who had newly arrived in Nottingham. The fourth study was conducted in China. In this study, a number of Chinese students who intended to study abroad were asked to evaluate the contents of the mobile group blog created by the twelve Chinese mobloggers in Study three. Findings from the four studies reveal the possibilities, suitability, strengths and weaknesses of the mobile group blog in assisting cultural transition. The thesis also presents positive feedback from participants as well as feedback on the limitations of this application. Then as added value to this research, it also suggests future educational applications of the mobile group blog.