Influence Of Blogs Research Articles

Impact of the blogosphere on the formation of spiritual and moral values of the young in the changing information world

The article reveals the growing role of the blogosphere in the formation of spiritual and moral values in the changing information world, the reasons for its effective impact on the worldview of young people, especially regarding the educational platform, as well as the increasing manipulation and destructive influence of blogs on the consciousness of the youth audience.

INTEGRATING ONLINE BLOG IN TEACHING ENGLISH CREATIVE WRITING

This research was set out to examine students’ writing abilities in teaching creative writing subject and investigate the students’ perception in utilizing online blog as a teaching media and how do the online blog influence them in their creative writing subject? Thirty-one fourth semester students of the English Literature study program in the Humanities Faculty, Halu Oleo University who took creative writing subject in the academic year 2020/2021 participated in the research. Data were obtained from students’ results of pre- and post-test on the five components of writing composition, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use (grammar), and mechanics. The researcher used mix methods to analyze the data both quantitatively and qualitatively. The researcher runs a paired sample t-test with 2 tailed t-tests using the SPSS 16 to test the proposed hypothesis. To reveal students’ perception, descriptive data were transformed into words. Analysis of the data obtained resulted in the followings: pre-test score (M=76.38; SD = 8.77), post-test score (M=86.29; SD=7.78), Df= 30, t-tabel = 1,697 and t-test = 10.686. These results indicated a significant difference on students’ abilities in creative writing subject before and after treatment. Furthermore, students’ perception on the use of online blog is positively related with the students’ achievement. It can therefore be concluded that utilizing online blog as a medium for teaching creative writing is very effective not only in enhancing student’s writing ability in creative writing subject, but also in creating a positive learning environment.

INTEGRATING ONLINE BLOG IN TEACHING ENGLISH CREATIVE WRITING

This research was set out to examine students’ writing abilities in teaching creative writing subject and investigate the students’ perception in utilizing online blog as a teaching media and how do the online blog influence them in their creative writing subject? Thirty-one fourth semester students of the English Literature study program in the Humanities Faculty, Halu Oleo University who took creative writing subject in the academic year 2020/2021 participated in the research. Data were obtained from students’ results of pre- and post-test on the five components of writing composition, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use (grammar), and mechanics. The researcher used mix methods to analyze the data both quantitatively and qualitatively. The researcher runs a paired sample t-test with 2 tailed t-tests using the SPSS 16 to test the proposed hypothesis. To reveal students’ perception, descriptive data were transformed into words. Analysis of the data obtained resulted in the followings: pre-test score (M=76.38; SD = 8.77), post-test score (M=86.29; SD=7.78), Df= 30, t-tabel = 1,697 and t-test = 10.686. These results indicated a significant difference on students’ abilities in creative writing subject before and after treatment. Furthermore, students’ perception on the use of online blog is positively related with the students’ achievement. It can therefore be concluded that utilizing online blog as a medium for teaching creative writing is very effective not only in enhancing student’s writing ability in creative writing subject, but also in creating a positive learning environment.

Peace and Conflict Depiction in Newspapers Blog Contents: A Comparative Analysis of Pak-India Relations since 2019-2020

As Pak-Indian relations were on high alert throughout the 2019–2020 study period due to the Pulwama assault and other terrorist activity in Occupied Kashmir, this research was conducted to examine blogs for peace and conflict journalism. A content analysis procedure was utilized for data collection.Through the use of a coding sheet, data was gathered between December 2019 and 2020 to look into the potential influence of blogs on the war and peace reporting between Pakistan and India. According to the study's findings, bloggers primarily pushed war journalism rather than peace journalism. Both publications framed discussions of Pakistan-Indian ties in terms of trade, security, propaganda, border conditions, and issues related to nuclear war and Kashmir. This Study is important for media organizations, editors and reporters to develop a strategy for peace journalism instead of war and violence journalism. Blogs are a plying substantial role in opinion building and changing.

The internet as a space of professional communications of healthcare and medicine specialists

This article discusses the aspects of using the Internet space for communication of medical and healthcare professionals, primarily through blogging. The factors influencing the increase in the number of blogs are given, the most popular topics for blogging about health are listed. The influence of blogs about medicine on the healthcare industry as a whole is analyzed. The objectives of creating medical blogs and their key features are considered. The advantages of maintaining such blogs for authors and readers are given.

Link-PLSA-LDA: A New Unsupervised Model for Topics and Influence of Blogs

In this work, we address the twin problems of unsupervised topic discovery and estimation of topic specific influence of blogs. We propose a new model that can be used to provide a user with highly influential blog postings on the topic of the user's interest. We adopt the framework of an unsupervised model called Latent Dirichlet Allocation, known for its effectiveness in topic discovery. An extension of this model, which we call Link-LDA, defines a generative model for hyperlinks and thereby models topic specific influence of documents, the problem of our interest. However, this model does not exploit the topical relationship between the documents on either side of a hyperlink, i.e., the notion that documents tend to link to other documents on the same topic. We propose a new model, called Link-PLSA-LDA, that combines PLSA and LDA into a single framework, and explicitly models the topical relationship between the linking and the linked document. The output of the new model on blog data reveals very interesting visualizations of topics and influential blogs on each topic. We also perform quantitative evaluation of the model using log-likelihood of unseen data and on the task of link prediction. Both experiments show that that the new model performs better, suggesting its superiority over Link-LDA in modeling topics and topic specific influence of blogs.

Selecting Bloggers for Hotels via an Innovative Mixed MCDM Model

The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak had a great impact on the tourism industry. Numerous hotels have ceased operations. Because of the increasing influence of blogs, various industries have adopted blogs as a publicity and marketing strategy. Companies utilize consumers’ trust and loyalty toward bloggers to effectively contact them. Hence, bloggers play a crucial role in the hotel industry. No past study has researched blogger selection by hotel managers. In this study, an innovative mixed multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model including importance-performance analysis (IPA), analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is established to assist hotel managers in selecting bloggers. We firstly collect the selection criteria via interviews with hotel managers and a review of literature on blogger selection. Messages with stick are understood, remembered, and have an enduring influence on opinions and behavior. Hence, we also introduce the concept of stick to the selection criteria. Based on IPA and the literature review, a hierarchical structure for blogger selection is constructed. Then, AHP and TOPSIS are integrated to assist the case company managers to select suitable bloggers.

The blogosphere as a medium for the professional stimulation of teachers. Initial study

The dynamic development of the information society and the omnipresence of ICTs has changed the work of Polish teachers. As a result of the expansion of digital forms, Polish teachers engage in various professional activities in cyberspace. The author indicated that Polish teachers have become extremely active on the internet, and she discussed the phenomenon of teacher blogs. A hugely interesting issue is the influence of blogs on teaching Polish in schools, and the development of teachers’ professional competences. The act of writing journals online may bring benefits for the digital school (by adapting teaching processes to the needs of tablet children and global teenagers, combining the methods typical for the technological revolution with traditional teaching tools). A review of blogs maintained on Facebook enabled the author to indicate various strategies of working with pupils, and the evolution of creative attitudes of Polish teachers.

Under the influence of a blogger: The role of information‐seeking goals and issue involvement

AbstractBloggers in the postmodern era can influence the behaviour of consumers and alter their perceptions. The current study looks at the blogger influence phenomenon from a different theoretical perspective than existing literature did. By combining information behaviour and communication theory, it proposes a new conceptual framework by relying on the characteristics of the blogger, the blog content, motivation, and goals of information seeker. In this model, information seekers’ objectives and issue the involvement are important drivers of blog selection and determinants of the blog's influence. The framework was empirically tested in a sample of American users of beauty blogs. The results provide a confirmation of the postulated relationships. Three types of blog visits are identified and their effects and their attributes that make a blog influential are examined.

Blog influence and political activism: An emerging and integrative model

Internet has elicited a new decision making process in the area of political marketing thanks to the emergence of new communication tools. This paper focuses on weblogs as pioneer players on Web 2.0 in order to ascertain their actual sphere of influence on individuals’ political behaviour. Focusing on the case of weblogs and assuming a wide and integrative theoretical approach, a hybrid model which merges marketing, technology and political science is proposed and tested using a sample of 39 weblogs and 890 blog users in an innovative attempt to shed light on these virtual-physical dynamics. The results are promising and open the door to the comprehension of a new, emerging framework where Internet tools are intended for a major, critical role in the political arena.

Os blogs como meios de comunicação política

O texto analisa e discute o papel dos blogues portugueses enquanto meios de comunicação política. Nas nossas sociedades mediatizadas, a atividade política é indissociável dos media¸ que constituem uma espécie de “parlamento mediático” onde tudo se decide antes da decisão propriamente política. É precisamente sobre esse “parlamento” que os blogues procuram influir e, desse modo, influir no parlamento propriamente dito e na ação governativa; ou seja, a principal influência dos blogues enquadra-se naquilo a que se tem chamado agendamento intermediático. E, na medida em que os blogues dão voz a muitos cidadãos alheios aos media mainstream, eles podem ser vistos como representando um alargamento da esfera pública – mesmo se, nalguns casos, eles são utilizados como mais um meio ao serviço da “politics as usual”.

Why Are People Skeptical about Climate Change? Some Insights from Blog Comments

Surveys of public opinion show that a significant minority of the population are skeptical about climate change, and many suggest that doubt is increasing. The Internet, in particular the blogosphere, provides a vast and relatively untapped resource of data on the thinking of climate skeptics. This paper focuses on one particular example where over 150 climate skeptics provide information on their background, opinion on climate change, and reasons for their skepticism. Although these data cannot be regarded as representative of the general public, it provides a useful insight into the reasoning of those who publicly question climate science on the Web. Points of note include the high level of educational background, the significant numbers who appear to have been converted from a position of climate concern to one of skepticism, and the influence of blogs on both sides of the climate debate.

How does Mental Health Blog influence on blogger’ s Depression?

How does Mental Health Blog influence on blogger’ s Depression?

Corporate blogs, social media links and firm performance: A study of Fortune 500 companies

This research explores the relationships between corporate blogs, social media links and the performance of Fortune 500 companies. Using secondary data from the companies regarding their revenue, profits and ratings on the Most Admired Companies (MAC) list, the study tests the influence of blogs and social media links on performance. Specifically, it compares the performance outcomes of those companies with corporate blogs, those companies with social media links, and those companies with neither blogs nor social media links. The results indicate that those companies with corporate blogs have higher revenues and profits, and score higher on the MAC list than those without. Similarly, those companies with social media links have higher revenues, profits and MAC ratings than those without. The findings confirm the association between corporate blogs and social media links in relation to performance outcomes. As the first study to test such relationships in the social media context, the findings provide valuable insights into the influence of corporate blogging and social media strategies on firms’ financial performance and reputation. The study also provides directions for future research in the social media context.

A blog ranking algorithm using analysis of both blog influence and characteristics of blog posts

In recent years, with the increasing number of blogs to share information, the ratio of blogs on the World Wide Web has been raised. In this regard, the problem of information quality has come up due to the rapidly increasing amount of information in a blogosphere. Therefore, discovering good quality information is one of the significant issues in the blog space. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for efficient blog ranking, called WCT (a blog ranking algorithm using Weighted Comments and Trackbacks). This method performs a ranking process through not only interconnection analysis of blogs but also structural weights for contents in the blogs. Moreover, we conduct performance evaluation and discuss the performance between our algorithm and a previous algorithm by comparing their experimental results, which show that our approach has higher performance than that of the other blog retrieval method.

Progress in travel blog research and its implications

Travel blogs can provide a virtual platform of sharing travel experiences and feelings for tourists,and is becoming a reliable source of information for tourists' decision-making,which has received extensive attentions from the academia circle and tourism professionals. Thus travel blogs have become a new tourism research object. This paper attempted to make a comprehensive analysis of relevant literature regarding travel blogs from2005 to 2012 at home and abroad. The analysis procedures and results were as follows:(1) Domestic and foreign research started relatively late,but developed rapidly. Achievements were mainly published on tourism marketing and management journals.(2) The major research contents were categorized. Bloggers,blog's content and travel-blogging techniques were the main research subjects. Firstly,the analysis of bloggers included blogger's demographic characteristics,writing of blogs,and blogger's travel behavior. Writing of blogs was analyzed in terms of writing motivation,writing time,writing skills and blog's sharing. Blogger's travel behavior was analyzed in terms of travel motivation,travel spatial behavior and satisfaction level. Secondly,the analysis of blog's content included its effect on potential tourists,image construction of tourist destinations,and tourist destination marketing. Thirdly,travel-blogging techniques were proposed to solve the problems with blog-using,including information searching,information extraction,information sharing and writing application. Foreign studies have made considerable amount of progress on these subjects,and mainly focused on blogger's travel behavior,blog's effect on destination marketing and blogging techniques. Domestic research has been only focused on blog's influence on image construction and marketing of travel destination.(3) Main research methods were analyzed comprehensively in terms of their characteristics and the insufficiency. Firstly,in the aspect of information searching methods,searching on the Internet has been widely used. The paper listed the searching websites and made a comparison between Website searching and online survey methods in term of the cost,amount of information,authenticity,integrity,operability and so on. Secondly,in the aspect of analysis methods,there were abundant methods to analyze the content of blogs at home and abroad,including word frequency analysis,semantic network analysis,discourse analysis,interpretative analysis,narrative analysis,digital ethnography analysis,phenomenology analysis,stance-shift analysis and so on,among which content analysis and narrative analysis have been most widely used. The paper also made a comparison between content analysis and narrative analysis in term of their advantages and disadvantages.(4) The paper looked into the possible directions of future development from three aspects,namely,research scales,research contents and research methods,providing references and enlightenment for further application and study. In the aspect of research scales,it was suggested that the comparative study of different scales should be enhanced. In the aspect of research contents,it was suggested that the perspective of local community should be considered,and other contents in blogs could also be analysis objects,such as pictures and videos. And the results should be complemented by field research because bloggers are not representative of all tourists. In the aspect of methods,domestic study should learn the advanced theory and research paradigm from foreign research,as well as strengthen regional research constantly,in the hope to construct China-style travel blog research system.

Differential Influence of Blogs Across Different Stages of Decision Making: The Case of Venture Capitalists

In this paper, we study the differential influence of online user-generated content (UGC), specifically blogs, across the multiple stages of decision making of venture capitalists: screening stage, choice stage, and contract stage. We conjecture that, f

Exploring the impact of an evolving war and terror blogosphere on traditional media coverage of conflict

This article analyses the evolution of a war and terror blogosphere between 2001 and 2011. It identifies seven areas where blogs and related online genres could provide ‘alternative’ accounts to traditional media narratives of conflict. The article also assesses the challenges and opportunities of blogs in each area from the perspective of the working journalist in order to deepen our understanding of the changing influence of blogs on traditional media narratives of conflict. Parallel accounts and interpretations of conflict will collaborate and compete in a war and terror blogosphere in the future, but it has been significantly influenced by the adoption of blogging by military actors since 2008. The war and terror blogosphere is no longer a relatively unmonitored online space which is having an impact on both the production of ‘alternative’ accounts of conflict and the incorporation of these accounts into traditional journalism.

Measuring Blog Influence

Netizens around the world increasingly use blogs to share thoughts and opinions, create special interest groups, collaborate, and debate on issues. However, the social influence of blogs remains largely undetermined. This paper presents the outcomes of a study which investigates how the influence of blogs can be measured quantitatively. The purpose of the study was to determine how to assess the social influence of blogs and to develop two new tools for measuring blog influence: the Blog Influence Index (BII) and Blog Influence Analyzer (BIA). These tools were applied to identify top influential blogs in the blogosphere community of Malaysia. The results indicate that the top 10 most influential blogs in Malaysia fall under the categories of politics, entertainment, sports, lifestyle, and technology.

Understanding the influence of blog on the development of social capital

The rapid use and application of blogs in diverse areas such as education, marketing, journalism, and human resource management in recent years underlines the need for a better understanding of the impact of this new technology on social capital. Social capital reflects the norm of reciprocity and the level of trust among individuals who connect, interact, and benefit from one another. Blog is expected to influence the extent and the scope of this interaction by providing new means of networking among people. This paper examines the relationship between blog use and social capital and reports on the results of an exploratory study that examines this relationship using survey data from 326 blog users. Results suggest a significant and positive impact of blog use on social capital and its components: social connections, reciprocity, and trust. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.