The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. A group at the University of California-Irvine, however, decided to approach the question from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers. Mixing in a dose of literary theory provided some interesting insights into how readers view and define blogs.
The girls reinforce their close friendships with one another & with classmates who also blog. They use their blogs to rollick & rant & reminisce, perhaps with less attention to the niceties of word choice & spelling & grammar than they invest in their English papers. They express sides of themselves at odds w/ their public personas & glimpse what may not be apparent in their friends.
The Online Diary History Project was a collaborative effort. After all, who better to write the history of online journals than the people who wrote (and still write) the online journals? We brought together the personal recollections of those journallers who got their start between 1995 and the end of 1997.
While creating content enables girls to experiment with how they want to present themselves to the world, they are obviously interested in maintaining and forging relationships.
Girls continue to dominate most elements of content creation. Some 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Boys, however, do dominate one area - posting of video content online. Online teen boys are nearly twice as likely as online girls (19% vs. 10%) to have posted a video online somewhere where someone else could see it.
Dan uses his blog to write about and collect citations relating to blogging, identity, and narrative.
Rochelle Gurstein, author of "The Repeal of Reticence," a book about the erosion of privacy in the US, said the blogs seem to reflect an "unprecedented change" in teenagers' sense of modesty. Many young bloggers say they don't think people other than friends are reading their journals. Some contend that the Internet is a safer place for their inner thoughts than a book that can be found by parents
As students continue to use and develop networked environments, it may become the case that the status of being admitted into a community by its members exceeds the credibility gained through “outside” peer review. As this process evolves, we may see a broader transformation in which learning becomes a process of participation in a community rather than of receiving knowledge from an “expert”.
In what ways do digital technologies themselves affect credibility? I think the essential consequence is of increasing the diversity of credibility signals (both positive and negative, clarifying and obscuring). And at two levels--that of credibility of the content (whether a posting or about a person) and the credibility of the medium itself.
Many individuals who are accessing information on the web have no experience in traditional skills of judgment and information aggregation (e.g., they are young). Most individuals are very unsophisticated in using online sources and don’t like to spend their entire lives online (e.g., they are old).
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The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. A group at the University of California-Irvine, however, decided to approach the question from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers. Mixing in a dose of literary theory provided some interesting insights into how readers view and define blogs.
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