2004 WhyWeBlog

• (Nardi et al., 2004) ⇒ Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, and Luke Swartz. (2004). “Why We Blog.” In: Communications of the ACM Journal, 47(12). doi:10.1145/1035134.1035163

Subject Headings: Personal Blog

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2007

• (Java et al., 2007) ⇒ Akshay Java, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin, and Belle Tseng. (2007). “Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities.” In: Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis. doi:10.1145/1348549.1348556

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Abstract

Bloggers are driven to document their lives, provide commentary and opinions, express deeply felt emotions, articulate ideas through writing, and form and maintain community forums.

Introduction

Blogging is sometimes viewed as a new, grassroots form of journalism and a way to shape democracy outside the mass media and conventional party politics [3]. Blog sites devoted to politics and punditry, as well as to sharing technical developments (such as www.slashdot.org), receive thousands of hits a day. But the vast majority of blogs are written by ordinary people for much smaller audiences. Here, we report the results of an ethnographic investigation of blogging in a sample of ordinary bloggers. We investigated blogging as a form of personal communication and expression, with a specific interest in uncovering the range of motivations driving individuals to create and maintain blogs.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2004 WhyWeBlog	Bonnie A. Nardi Diane J. Schiano Michelle Gumbrecht Luke Swartz			Why We Blog				10.1145/1035134.1035163