Posted in blog on Sep 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I happened to pick up an article by Herring et al. (2005) concerning blogs as genre. The paper should be a pioneer work regarding the defining charateristics of blogs in relation to other media -offline or online, old and new. It was found that although filter blogs featuring links to and comments on other web [...]
Posted in blog on Aug 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Blogs have been regarded as a combination of both a public and private processes. Mortensen & Walker (2002) might be the pioneers in putting the relationships of these two into perspective.
The image encompasses the seemingly paradoxical mixture of private and public that is evident in weblogs. They are enclosed and private spaces that allow the [...]
Posted in assessment, blog on Jun 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I found my mind evolving on the issues of assessment and participation lately. I guess this is a question that never promises a quick and simple answer. This dilemma of voluntary vs. compulsory participation becomes especially salients when it comes to blog given its core nature as personal publishing vehicle. I guess it’s necessary to [...]
Posted in blog on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
Weblogs can indeed server many purposes. You can blog to keep in touch with friends far or close. You can share your happiness, sorrow, thoughts and millions of trivial things. Blogs can also be a channel to dump emotional garbage. You can just log in to moan then get on with your life. You can [...]
Posted in blog, community on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
I agree that deep conversation might happen on blogosphere. But the pattern of the conversation tends to be individual-centered. That is to say, the blogger as the central node of interaction. However, I really doubt the effectiveness of blogs as many-to-many discussion tool.
The dialog on blog space is enabled by commenting. The problem with commenting [...]
Posted in blog on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
I have been thinking about the pros and cons of private journals and blogs for a while. In my doctoral study, I focused on how blogs could help students’ reflection and social interaction. What I have is a group of students who had the habit of writing journals and/or personal blogs to document their experience. [...]
Posted in blog on Nov 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Nardi et al. (2004) maintained that blogging is a social activity in many dimensions. Some started blogging as a response to a direct social request. Readership is the major drive for continuous and sustained blogging. Further some bloggers change the content of blogs in accordance with audience’s feedback and expectations. In this way, audience is [...]
Posted in blog on Sep 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
I came across this short article and found it quite funny although rather cynical. Michael Gorman, president-elect of the American Library Association defined blog as
a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.
I doubt that many of [...]
Posted in blog, community on Jul 12th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the major difference between blog community and forum-based online community is the absence of community space. That entails the distributed conversation and more fluid membership. What is highlighted is the ownership issue and the tension between individual and community interest. The personal blog space is owned by the blogger. But who own the [...]
Posted in blog, community on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Nancy White’s paper on blog community has been acclaimed as the best research article by Edublog award. Here are some of the ideas from the article.
The online community set on discussion forum are usually clearly bounded communities with authentication, registration, etc. The new type of online community in blogosphere makes it imperative to study the [...]
