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  1. Added Apr 11, 2008 by katiebda
    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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  2. Added Apr 05, 2008 by katiebda
    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.
  3. Added Mar 10, 2008 by katiebda
    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.
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  4. Added Feb 24, 2008 by katiebda
    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.
  5. Added Dec 20, 2007 by katiebda
    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.
  6. Added Mar 30, 2007 by katiebda
    Dan uses his blog to write about and collect citations relating to blogging, identity, and narrative.
  7. Added Feb 27, 2007 by katiebda
    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
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