Analysis Of Blogs Research Articles

Botnet Prevention Strategies for Social Network users: Cases and Remedies

A Botnet is a collection of computers infected with malicious code that use FTP, TFTP, and HTTP protocol based services for infecting the computers. They keep on spreading till a desired strength of Botnet is assembled. Since social networking users have inclination to grow the Social Networks, a poorly designed social networking website can have some loop holes which could invoke a Botnet to spread around the users connected to it. In this paper attempt is made to elaborate assimilation of social networks and to show how they can turn into Botnet. This study is based on the analysis of spam, Internet blogs, newsgroups & Cases for converging into conclusions

Using travel blogs to examine the postconsumption behavior of tourists

This study proposes that travel blogging has become part of tourist practices, particularly in the postconsumption stage. Travel blogs serve as platforms where tourists can remember, evaluate, store, and enrich their travel experiences. Extant literature has recognized travel blogs as a valuable source of information on tourists’ activities, perceptions of destinations, and word-of-mouth communication. This study suggests that an examination of travel blogs, looking at how tourists reconstruct their travel experiences and the actions behind the blogging, can provide a deeper understanding of the postconsumption behavior of tourists. Recent tourist experience models have emphasized that the postconsumption stage of a travel experience extends beyond the evaluation of the experience by the tourist. In this study, the discourse analysis of travel blogs by 19 British long-haul and multiple-destination travelers reveals three common actions behind travel blogging: representing places, acts of self-presentation, identity construction, and “othering.” The analysis shows bloggers employing linguistic techniques and self-presentation strategies in their travel narratives. Implications of the key findings for marketing strategies and destination image are discussed.

OC-159 Content analysis of illness blogs posted online by patients with IBD

IntroductionIllness blogs are online accounts of the course of a disease: they are unsolicited first person narratives, that are publicly accessible allowing author-reader interactivity. Expressive writing improves quality of life...

Time Off: The Social Experience of Time on Vacation

This article explores the phenomenological and socially constructed experience of time during the finite period of the vacation. Temporal routine is considered as a form of social control from which vacations and similar breaks for time off offer opportunities for agency and release. In-depth interviews, participant observation, and a narrative analysis of vacation blogs are used to analyze norms in orientation to time while one is away from select constraints of everyday life. Approaches to time while on vacation are found to fall into two ideal types: those who may “ignore” time and find release from schedules and routine, and those who must closely attend to its passage. Influences of duration, frequency and pace are also central in moderating experience.

Making digital literacy a success in taught marketing courses

AbstractThis paper examines criteria for successfully developing digital literacy skills in an undergraduate module. We analyse students’ work using concepts from the digital literacy literature, the field of digital marketing and the concept of the filter bubble (Pariser 2011). We describe the rationale for the module, the assessment process and the outputs produced by students. We then undertake an analysis of reflective blogs and other student outputs. We review key criteria that appear to be critical to successful implementation and discuss the importance of assessing critically reflective practice in authentic, constructively aligned assessment tasks.

National Image of South Korea Held by Russian Netizen: Focusing on Internet Blogs and Survey analysis

National Image of South Korea Held by Russian Netizen: Focusing on Internet Blogs and Survey analysis

Estudio sobre la comunicación digital de las organizaciones sociales en españa

Este artículo muestra el uso que las organizaciones sociales de España están haciendo de internet, de sus sitios webs y de blogs y redes sociales: si están utilizando la red para dar a conocer sus proyectos, si contienen secciones específicas para socios, si hacen campaña de captación de socios o recaudación de fondos on-line (fundraising), etc.Para realizar el estudio seleccionamos como muestra las organizaciones sociales con mayor número de socios - Cruz Roja Española, Médicos Sin Fronteras, Intermón Oxfam, Ayuda en Acción y UNICEF-. Asimismo, se analizan las organizaciones más pequeñas, para comprobar si las diferencias en el número de socios influyen en el uso de internet.La técnica de investigación que emplearemos es el análisis de contenido de las páginas webs, blogs y redes sociales de las ONG. Posteriormente, hacemos un análisis comparativo del uso que hacen de internet las distintas organizaciones.El interés de este estudio radica en que, en la actualidad, partidos políticos y muchos grupos de interés padecen el descrédito de la ciudadanía, como se ha puesto de manifiesto en España con el “Movimiento 15 M”. En este contexto, organizaciones y movimientos sociales se convierten en un marcado exponente de la participación ciudadana (Norris, 2002).

Art and Design Blogs: a Socially‐Wise Approach to Creativity

AbstractMany images of the ‘artist’ or ‘designer’ pervade the media and popular consciousness. Contemporary images of the artist and creativity that focus solely on the individual offer a very narrow depiction of the varying ways creativity occurs for artists and designers. These images do not capture the variety of creative processes and myriad ways artists and designers work. Young creatives in particular are choosing to work with a social approach to creativity. An example of this approach is the world of blogging, a form of social media where young creatives have a very active voice. This article explores how creative bloggers, that is, artists, designers and makers who blog about their practice, use a social approach to foster creativity with a sense of community, environmental and ethical awareness, a value framework that is in opposition to the market‐driven notion of liberal individualism. Is there a way to include participation in the broader art and design blogging world as part of art and design education? What can we learn from such a social approach to learning in higher education art and design programmes? This article explores these questions and shares findings of an ethnographic approach to an analysis of art and design blogs. In doing so it argues for a socially‐wise approach to creativity in art and design education as a means of promoting values other than those usually connected to the market.

Emotional Analysis of Blogs and Forums Data

Recent years have resulted in several well motivated and carefully described studies coping with the problem of opinion formation and its spreading [1]. This kind of research usually aimed at qualitative descriptions of some specific phenomena using both numerical and analytical methods and touched problems like culture dissemination [2], decision making [3], majority rule voting [4], social impact [5] or community isolation [6–7]. The bottleneck of such studies is always the lack of real-world data that could sustain the presented theories. On the other hand, the rapid and overwhelming development of the Internet enables gathering information on its users and their habits, spotting characteristic structures [8] and users’ behaviour [9]. However, all these works have not delved into a crucial aspect of any analysis of new-born media like Internet blogs or forums: their emotional content. It is only lately that such analyses have started to emerge [10–13]. In this paper we focus on the properties of emotionally annotated chains of posts from two large online datasets. We give strong evidence that the discussions cannot be treated as random insertions of comments showing various measures of correlation with the emotional content of posts. The paper is complementary to recent analyses of cluster formation and the influence of negative emotions on the properties of online discussions [14–15].

Discuss, reflect, and collaborate: A qualitative analysis of forum, blog, and wiki use in an EFL blended learning course

The current paper reports on empirical research investigating the qualitative changes in writing proficiencies in response to using three online writing tools, i.e., discussion forums, blogs, and wikis, in an EFL blended-format course. Questionnaire, interview, and text analysis were combined for triangulation. A qualitative change in differentiated writing styles for forum and blog posts was found. Planning distinct objectives for each online writing tool is suggested to reduce EFL students‟ cognitive load and facilitate language acquisition. An objective-focused online writing design model, which uses forums for discussion, blogs for reflection, and wikis for collaboration for higher learning outcomes, is proposed.

The Influence of A-list Political Blogs in the Japanese Blogosphere : a Content Analysis of Blogs in Japan's 2007 Upper House Election

The Influence of A-list Political Blogs in the Japanese Blogosphere : a Content Analysis of Blogs in Japan's 2007 Upper House Election

Being there: examining the behaviour of Antarctic tourists through their blogs

Most visitors to Antarctica today are commercial tourists. Over 150 000 tourists visited Antarctica between 2007 and 2010, making up more than 700 000 person/landings. Despite the scale of tourism in Antarctica, knowledge about its environmental impacts is generally inconclusive, and monitoring is limited. This article examines tourist behaviour regarding the environment using information available on travel weblogs (blogs) posted by tourists on the Internet. Fifty blogs describing Antarctic travel were analysed, mostly as part of organized tourism cruises, during the four Antarctic summer seasons between 2007 and 2010, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The blogs described the activities of 90 people who had visited Deception Island as part of their itinerary and who, overall, had undertaken at least 190 person/landings in Antarctica. Blog analysis highlighted the importance of wildlife as a tourist attraction. In the blogs it was apparent that touristwildlife interactions result in a range of behaviours from both individual tourists and animals. Tourism results in cultural traces and other environmental consequences, although some of these would not be judged as ‘‘impacts’’ under the current practice of implementing the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. Blogs showed many more instances of compliance than of noncompliance with environmental regulations. Tourist blogs illustrate the behavioural processes by which environmental impacts from tourism could occur, which are repeated through thousands of person-landings and other activities in Antarctica every season. Precautionary action may be a practical alternative to manage tourism at some sites until it is clearer how this activity affects the environment.Keywords: Polar tourism; Antarctic tourism; behavioural archaeology; tourist behaviour; tourism impacts; Antarctic environment(Published: 28 December 2012)Citation: Polar Research 2012, 31, 10905, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.10905

Welcome to Me-Mart

This article uses a discursive analysis of personal blogging handbooks and personal blogs to reflect on the politics of user-generated content (UGC) as it is created, circulated, valuated, quantified, and monetized by different social media platforms. In doing so, this article traces the contours of an increasingly commercialized blogosphere and the tensions and perceived trade-offs that ensue for professional and quotidian bloggers. By reconstructing the ecology of platforms that form the sociotechnical machinery of the blogosphere, the rifts between the empowerment rhetoric of Web 2.0 and the statistical and experiential realities faced by quotidian bloggers become palpable. Suspended between a vibrant vision of blogging as a surefire ticket to fame and fortune and a sobering structural reality of obscurity and tedium, bloggers are recalibrating their collective delusions of grandeur by constructing alternative economies of exchange. Instead of valuating their self-professed labor monetarily or quantitatively, bloggers are reverting to more attainable small-scale social exchanges that are qualitative in form. More than hits, links, and votes, bloggers appear to value a virtual pat on the back, a reassuring remark, a sincere conversation. However, as the machinery of the blogosphere chugs on, the sociotechnical biases of its architectures of participation will be increasingly unable to cater to these bloggers’ needs. This article demonstrates how the politics of UGC can illuminate the infectious rhetoric of Web 2.0, situate the enterprise of blogging within the socioeconomic logic of prosumption, and pave the way toward a better understanding of our communal media futures.

A Novel Web Metric for the Evaluation of Internet Trends

Abstract — Web 2.0 (social networking, blogging and online forums) can serve as a data source for social science research because it contains vast amount of information from many different users. The volume of that information has been growing at a very high rate and becoming a network of heterogeneous data; this makes things difficult to find and is therefore not almost useful. We have proposed a novel theoretical model for gathering and processing data from Web 2.0, which would reflect semantic content of web pages in better way. This article deals with the analysis part of the model and its usage for content analysis of blogs. The introductory part of the article describes methodology for the gathering and processing data from blogs. The next part of the article is focused on the evaluation and content analysis of blogs, which write about specific trend. Keywords — Blog, Sentiment Analysis, Web 2.0, Webometrics I. I NTRODUCTION EB 2.0 (social networking, blogging and online forums) creates vast amount of comments on various topics from many different users. Thanks to that, Web 2.0 can serve as a data source for social science research [1]. According to Internet World Statistics [2], approximately 60% of the population in Europe and over 70% of the populations in North America are currently internet users. The number of Internet users has been constantly growing and Web 2.0 has been becoming a popular tool for finding information [3], [4]. Nevertheless, the volume of information on the web has been growing at a very high rate and becoming a network of heterogeneous data, this makes thing difficult to find and is therefore not almost useful. It is necessary to design suitable metric for such volume of information, which would reflect the semantic content of pages in the better way. One of the options for more accurate comprehension of semantic information is to use a sophisticated analysis of sentences called Sentiment Analysis [5]. The knowledge gained will be useful for algorithm design to facilitate user access to the information on the web, and also to obtain the public opinion on specific issues. II. R

Using Web 2.0 to teach Web 2.0: A case study in aligning teaching, learning and assessment with professional practice

<span>Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the way people in information industries engage with their clients, collaborate on projects, promote their services and gather community knowledge. In this paper, we describe the impact of industry adoption of Web 2.0 technologies on an information management course. The students in this course are either already working in or plan to be entering information professions such as librarianship, archiving, records management, information architecture, and information and knowledge management. The lecturer and tutors for this course are changing the way learning is assessed and constructively aligning it with industry expectations for library and information graduates. Specifically in this paper we focus on the impact of the Web 2.0 affordances on student learning, the assessment process, and constructive alignment of intended learning outcomes with industry expectations in an information management blogging assignment. These findings are from the final stage of an Australian project where case studies of subjects that used Web 2.0 tools to assess student work were documented. Analysis of the students' blogs reveals exploration of the new tools used in a professional manner, greater collaboration and improved communication within the subject.</span>

Understanding Customer Delight

Distinct from satisfaction, delight occurs when a customer receives a positive surprise beyond his or her expectations. Because of strong correlations with repurchase intention and positive word of mouth, customer delight is a quintessentially germane topic of inquiry. This study illustrates that determinants of customer delight in tourism venues can be identified through travel blog analysis. Using the hotel sector as the context, this research text-mines and content-analyzes 743 pertinent travel blogs that contain the phrase “pleasant surprise,” “delightful surprise,” excellent surprise,” or “positive surprise” and finds that the most frequent cause of guest delight in the hotel sector appears to be customer service, followed by cleanliness. In addition, this study also finds that triggers of delight are statistically different for domestic versus international travel and for travelers to more-developed versus less-developed countries. Based on the study’s findings, the article concludes with a presentation of managerial and research implications.

International tourists' image of Zhangjiajie, China: content analysis of travel blogs

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to identify Western travelers' image of Zhangjiajie, China as a tourist destination, drawing on data from contents of web travel blogs.Design/methodology/approachThe study taps the rich content of travel blogs as an alternative research instrument to measure and understand negative and positive images of destinations formed by travelers. Analysis of content drawn from travel blog data followed qualitative methodology techniques and utilized NVivo software.FindingsThe study shows that travel blogs can form a good basis for measuring Western travelers' image of destination. This was the case for Zhangjiajie, where analysis of travelers' blogs indicated that they were impressed overall by the destination's beautiful natural scenery and were highly satisfied with nature‐based tourism attractions. The study also expounds on certain aspects of the destination that can be improved to satisfy Western travelers.Originality/valueThe majority of destination image studies rely on structured surveys developed from the researchers' point of view. This study attempts to explore tourists' own perspectives on the nature of a tourist destination by using travel blogs.

Detecting Persuasion in Arabic and English

This paper describes ongoing research that examines how Arabic speakers attempt to persuade each other on blog posts. The analysis of Arabic persuasion followed from an analysis of blogs written in English, in which persuasion tactics were relatively easy to identify compared to the approaches used by Arabic speakers. Although much of the work is still exploratory, in that identifying Arabic persuasion is still not something that we have clearly determined, this paper describes some of the challenges in this research, and in so doing, highlights the intriguing cultural issues associated with cross-cultural persuasion.

Efficient Blog Mining using Summarizing and Clustering Techniques

In the Blogosphere the blogs have become pervasive media in these years, the number of bloggers has increased at an exponential rate. Manually monitoring and analyzing the blogs is a labour-intensive and time-consuming task. Intuitively, you could apply existing text and Web mining techniques to blog analysis and mining , so mining the blog content has necessitated intensive research in the area of automatic text summarization and clustering semantically similar blog content from different blogs. This survey intends to investigate some of the most relevant approaches in the areas of text summarization and clustering giving special emphasis to empirical methods and extractive techniques. Some approaches that concentrate on details of the summarization problem are also discussed.

Taiwan's Ethnicities and their Representation on the Internet

This paper examines various Web applications of the four “officially” recognized ethnicities in Taiwan and aims to identify the links between information and communication technologies (ICTs), ethnic identities and issues related to Taiwanization and its contestation. To give some background, the paper introduces Taiwan's more recent multiculturalist policies, which should be seen as part of the broader Taiwanization and nation-building project. These multiculturalist/ ethnicity-related policies, directed toward the wider population as well as the specific ethnicities, are presented on the Internet by various government organizations and government-supported organizations. This paper also employs a discursive analysis of popular websites and blogs to examine the roles played by various societal and civic actors (ranging from NGOs to individuals) within Taiwan's ethnicity discourse.