Are Blogs Here to Stay?: An Examination of the Longevity and Currency of a Static List of Library and Information Science Weblogs

Johnson, Kay

doi:10.1080/00987913.2008.10765177

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“…Bloggers can work on their own blog contents to communicate with other Internet users, which may be in the form of personal diaries, interesting themes, really simple syndication (RSS) delivery, photographs, and so on (Cohen & Krishnamurthy, 2006;Johnson, 2008;Kent, 2008;Quible, 2005a;Sprague, 2007). When users read blogs, they are interested primarily in creative, personal expression or experiences, sharing practical knowledge, and just keeping in touch with friends or families.…”

Section: Blog Context Featuresmentioning

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Integrating Experiential Value of Blog Use into the Expectation-Confirmation Theory Model

Tang

Chiang

2010

soc behav pers

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In this paper the value of including experiential value in expectation-confirmation theory (ECT) when studying continued use of a weblog (blog) site is investigated. Original models examined cognitive beliefs and effects that influence a person's intention to continue to use an information system. In this study the ECT model was extended to include the relationship between experiential value and satisfaction and the results indicated that experiential value, satisfaction, and perceived usefulness all contributed significantly to the bloggers' intent to reuse a blog site. Thus, we believe that the extended ECT model is an appropriate tool for the study of blog continuance effects.

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Section: Blog Context Featuresmentioning

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Integrating Experiential Value of Blog Use into the Expectation-Confirmation Theory Model

Tang

Chiang

2010

soc behav pers

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“…(p. 86). In K. Johnson's (2008) study, "Are Blogs Here to Stay? An Examination of the Longevity and Currency of a Static List of Library and Information Science Weblogs," he stated, "Considering the explosion of blog content and delivery mechanisms, blogs are not going away unless a better way of spreading news and personal chronicles comes along" (p. 199).…”

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Has Blog Reader–Focused Research Evolved?

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For many years, researchers interested in the blogosphere have collectively acknowledged the lack of scholarly attention into the role of blog readers in the blogging activity. While many pioneering studies as well as new studies have highlighted the rising potential of this field, there has been no systematic examination of the growth or lack thereof of this field. As a result, this article reviews blog reader–focused research between 2008 and 2018 through a content analysis of blog reader–focused research articles obtained from seven databases: EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, EBSCO’s Communication & Mass Media Complete, SAGE Journals, Elega’s Chronological Arrangement of Blog Readership Research, Wiley Online Library, and Taylor and Francis. We also identified the methods, theories, geospatial concentration, and journals that published these articles. Findings show that although at least one article was published each year with a peak of six in 2013 and 2015, blog reader–focused research has not really evolved given that concentration has tremendously decreased in the last 3 years (2016–2018). Regarding genres, we learnt that the majority of articles focused on political blogs, and most of the studies adopted quantitative research methods and survey as a data collection method. The results also show that blog reader–focused studies published between 2008 and 2018 used Uses and Gratification Theory more than other theories, and the majority of these articles focused on blogs in the United States. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media &Society, and Computers in Human Behavior published more blog reader–focused research than other journals.

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“…For instance, blogs proved to be an important resource during the 2011 Egyptian revolution by playing an instrumental role in the organization and implementation of protests. 8 The problem is that blogs disappear every day 16 because there is no standard method or authority to ensure blog archiving and long-term digital preservation.…”

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A Scalable Approach to Harvest Modern Weblogs

Banos

Blanvillain

Kasioumis

et al. 2015

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools

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Blogs are one of the most prominent means of communication on the web. Their content, interconnections and influence constitute a unique socio-technical artefact of our times which needs to be preserved. The BlogForever project has established best practices and developed an innovative system to harvest, preserve, manage and reuse blog content. This paper presents the latest developments of the blog crawler which is a key component of the BlogForever platform. More precisely, our work concentrates on techniques to automatically extract content such as articles, authors, dates and comments from blog posts. To achieve this goal, we introduce a simple yet robust and scalable algorithm to generate extraction rules based on string matching using the blog's web feed in conjunction with blog hypertext. Furthermore, we present a system architecture which is characterised by efficiency, modularity, scalability and interoperability with third-party systems. Finally, we conduct thorough evaluations of the performance and accuracy of our system.

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Are Blogs Here to Stay?: An Examination of the Longevity and Currency of a Static List of Library and Information Science Weblogs

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

Integrating Experiential Value of Blog Use into the Expectation-Confirmation Theory Model

Integrating Experiential Value of Blog Use into the Expectation-Confirmation Theory Model

Has Blog Reader–Focused Research Evolved?

A Scalable Approach to Harvest Modern Weblogs

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