Beyond Personal Webpublishing: An Exploratory Study of Conversational Blogging Practices

Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm

“…Ali-Hasan and Adamic (2007) found a similar lack of correspondence between comments or citations in blog entries and contacts linked in the blogrolls of Kuwaiti bloggers. In contrast, Efimova and De Moor (2005) followed links in their study of an extended cross-blog conversation, which they found to be highly interactive, although the conversation itself was their pre-defined unit of analysis, rather than the individual blog.…”

“…The bottom-up and top-down approaches to identifying blog conversations used by Herring, Kouper, et al (2005) and Efimova and De Moor (2005), respectively, illustrate the types of methodological innovation that blog researchers have made in order to address certain questions about blog content. While traditional CA, CA-related paradigms, and earlier web content analyses all provide useful precedents, most blog researchers have found it necessary to innovate methodologically in some respects.…”

La digital history : histoire et mémoire à la portée de tous

“…This axiom refers to the social channel capacity, the ability of the human brain to relate factual, emotional, and social details to people. A series of social studies show that the average person can remember these features for approximately 150 individuals (see [Dunbar 1993]). Psychologists explain this characteristic by using the evolution of human societies: early settlements did not comprise more than 100-150 people, and therefore the brain developed only to the point where it was able to store the information on all people in this social network.…”

“…Blogs are usually not used by themselves but in conjunction with several other technologies ([Efimova and de Moor 2004]). Most frequently, they are combined with e-mail and instant messaging for "out-of-band" communication or wikis (see below).…”

Mellem det personlige og det faglige - om forskerblogs [Between personal and professional - on research blogs]

“…59ff). Netvaerksrelationerne er centrale for at forstå formidlingsformen i blogs, og den sociale interaktion, der opstår i netvaerk af blogs, naevnes ofte i litteraturen (Miller & Shepherd, 2004;Mortensen, 2004;Efimova et al, 2005). Som Miller & Shepherd skriver, fremhaeves det blandt bloggere som noget af det mest centrale ved at have en blog: "When bloggers talk about blogging, two themes relevant to these questions are ubiquitous: self-expression and community development" (Miller & Shepherd, 2004).…”