What’s the Ballyhoo about Blogs?

Arnold, Jennifer; Chittenden, Lloyd; Ellis, Kathryn D.; Eubanks, Jacob; McDonald, Elizabeth; Morris, Sarah; Ovadia, Steven; Shrode, Flora; Teplitzky, Samantha

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2007.05.008

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“…As Arnold et al (2007) reported, little specific knowledge is required to create a successful blog. On the contrary, individuals who can better disclose their inner self would have a stronger intention to continuously write a blog.…”

Section: Self-disclosure Is a Facilitating Factor But Not Informationmentioning

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Experience differences and continuance intention of blog sharing

Lee

2012

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Although many studies focus on information sharing in communities and organisations, little research has been carried out on the antecedents of continuance intention of blog sharing. This study focuses on amateur blogs, which are the major customers for blog service providers (BSPs). The purposes are to investigate the antecedents of continuous blog sharing and determine whether they change with gender, age, and blog experience differences. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework and related social-psychological foundations, this study proposes outcome expectancy of financial capital, knowledge capital, and social capital, perceived usability, social influence, self-disclosure, and information literacy as the antecedents of continuous blog sharing. A survey of 268 blog authors reveals that usability is a necessary condition for continuous blog sharing. Outcome expectancy for knowledge capital and social capital can encourage continuous sharing behaviour, but expectancy for financial capital does not. Meanwhile, blog sharing is primarily a personal endeavour facilitated by inner self-disclosure, not extrinsic information literacy or social influence. In addition, the antecedents differ according to gender, age, and blog experience differences.

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Section: Self-disclosure Is a Facilitating Factor But Not Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experience differences and continuance intention of blog sharing

Lee

2012

Behaviour & Information Technology

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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

Johnson

2008

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How Librarians Are Using the Internet

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This chapter examines the variety of ways librarians are using the Internet from its influence on the provision of new services to how librarians use the Internet to communicate with each other. A brief overview of Google and Google Scholar and their impact on library services alongside the Library 2.0 service ethic is explored with specific attention to its development and how it connects to previous understandings of library service provision. This is followed by an examination of how Web 2.0 technologies are used by librarians to offer services. There appears to be a disconnect between the rhetoric of technology use in libraries and the actual use of these technologies by librarians in their work lives. This disconnect highlights the previously identified relationship librarians have with technology – a combination of excitement and caution. Following this, a closer examination of three specific Internet technologies, blogs, Twitter, and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), is done. How librarians use these two technologies provides insight into the central place that technology has in the lives of modern librarians.

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What’s the Ballyhoo about Blogs?

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Experience differences and continuance intention of blog sharing

Experience differences and continuance intention of blog sharing

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

How Librarians Are Using the Internet

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