Blog Owner Research Articles

Koroona-aasta Triinu Merese blogis “Maha äng”

The history of the (we)blog shows that this online genre can be evaluated as an excellent source of data for qualitative research of various problems. Some authors (e.g. Hookway 2008) even consider the blog as a research technique for exploring certain questions which deal with people’s everyday practices. This article presents the results of a case study, which are based on content analysis of a personal blog (diary blog). The study grew out of the premise that the blog owners’ posts and their readers’ comments can shed some light on ground-breaking events and social processes at both the local and global levels, which in turn can influence the bloggers’ behaviour in various ways. The source of the current study was a personal blog titled “Maha äng” (“Down with angst”), the owner of which is poet and writer Triinu Meres a.k.a. väga väga naine (very very woman). The aim was to find out whether and, if yes, then how the corona crisis has changed the blogging behaviour as an integral part of everyday life of one particular blogger. The focus was on posts and comments entered in 2020, often called the year of corona due to the global pandemic. To illuminate possible changes in blogging behaviour, the 2020 posts were analysed in the context of earlier posts archived in 2008–2019. For comparison, the Health Board’s blog was used, which documented the course of the corona crisis chronologically with factual accuracy, as well as dailies in Estonian and English. The results of the study showed that in 2020 the number of posts and the activity of commenters in Triinu Meres’ personal blog did not increase and that the corona crisis did not become the dominant topic in comparison with the blogger’s personal crisis often covered in her blog. The posts revealed some signs that suggest boredom with the corona crisis as a topic of conversation which seemed to be over-exploited by various media channels.

SMARTPHONE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR FOOD BLOGGERS: A CASE STUDY IN BANGKOK

The objective of this research was to 1) study and develop a smartphone application for food bloggers, and 2) evaluate the result of using the application regarding the benefits of usage. This is mixed-method research and development. The application development processes composed of the study of user requirements, application design, application development, application testing, improvement, and evaluation. In the study of the user requirement process, data were collected from research samples by questionnaires. 400 research samples were selected from Thai people in the Bangkok area by a simple random sampling method. Data were analyzed in terms of frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Moreover, researchers also conducted interviews in order to collect qualitative data from 2 food bloggers in Bangkok about the requirements and relevant information about food blog application. After that, the smartphone application for food bloggers was designed, developed, tested, improved, and evaluated. Research results were as the followings. In terms of application users, the relevant activities composed of user registration, food contents uploading and presentations, comments, and evaluations. The application provided food details information, such as food menus, ingredients, cooking process, etc. in terms of texts, pictures, and videos. Food information was classified in terms of food types, nature of food culture by countries, and popular food ranking. Comment page show details about user comments with comments about posts. The application focused on colorful, beautiful, pleasant to use, which was appropriate for those who like to present food and let others know about restaurants and food in various stores. The developed smartphone application provided a social media channel. Users can register and log in through the application in order to submit their work by posting a message, pictures, and details about food information that they want to offer. Bloggers can edit posts made by themselves easily. Visitors can follow food bloggers which they are interested in. However, the researcher had suggestions as follows: 1) the food blog owner should provide more foreign languages, such as English, Chinese, Japanese for users in order to promote Thai food tourism, 2) some famous food bloggers should be invited to write some interesting content in order to promote application marketing, 3)interesting cooking lesson should be provided to visitors, 4) food contents must be active regularly, 5) the application sponsors must be arranged as well, and 6) food block owner have to set good rules and regulations for food blockers and visitors clearly.

СЕТЕВАЯ ЛИЧНОСТЬ КАК КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ФЕНОМЕН: ДИАЛОГИЗМ В ПРАКТИКЕ СОВРЕМЕННОГО БЛОГЕРА

Intensive information exchange and effective levers of horizontal democracy problematize the status of a journalist. The line between the audience and the producers of information is blurred. Non-traditional media projects are based on collaboration and dialogue. Media participation occurs when a person develops public activism and seeks to express himself publicly. In the article, such active people are defined as a trans-audience, and the new author is defined as a mediaprosumer. A journalist who is concerned with professional success finds himself as a blogger in the modern media situation. The blogger's online identity unfolds in a multi-vector way. The potential for dialogue inherent in posting as it is (the author's blog posts) is revealed during communication in the social network about the post. The concept of comment-communication is introduced, which is a system of dialogues and polylogues of different duration on different comment branches and often significantly transforms and develops the original topics of the post. When posting/comment-communication occurs situational interaction of a unique nature. The commentator personally addresses the author of the post, and the author personifies his response based on his understanding of the media network personality of this commentator. The two network dialog partners are mutually configured and integrated into each other. The number of such dialogical (and quite often polylogical, with the participation of several interlocutors) duels for one blogger is unlimited, except for his desire and the degree of professional self-mobilisation. On the other hand, the potential of a dialogue between different commenters is also realized in comment-communication, which does not always depend on the author of the post – the blog owner. The productivity of a dialogue is usually associated with the readiness and ability to adjust to each other. Many important meanings are revealed in the mode of personalized communication. The situation of network communication makes one of the central themes in personalistic thinking relevant – the problem of the Other. A blogger-journalist has a chance to acquire not only a resource of trust from the trans-audience that develops around his blog, but also a new quality of his online personality. In the online comment dialog, many mediaprosumer rediscover their own identity.

Predicting newcomer integration in online learning communities: Automated dialog assessment in blogger communities

Using online learning communities (OLCs) from the Internet as informal learning environments raises the question how likely these communities will integrate learners as new members, i.e., how integrative these OLCs will be. Such prediction is the purpose of the current study. To achieve this, an identification method of the central, intermediate, and peripheral OLC layers is proposed. Based on the CSCL approaches of voices interanimation and polyphony, an advanced natural language processing framework was employed for dialog analysis in N = 20 integrative vs. non-integrative blog-based OLCs involving 2342 users over one year. Hierarchical clusters built upon communicative centrality reflect socio-cognitive structures including central, intermediate, and peripheral OLC members. The resulting clusters were assigned to the central, intermediate and peripheral community layers with 55–100% consistency, whereas most consistent identification criterion of the socio-cognitive OLC structures was the outdegree centrality, followed by the blog owner inclusion, the numbers of participants, eccentricity and indegree centrality. Subsequently, OLC integrativity was predicted with up to 90% accuracy based on topic complexity, socio-cognitive structure, and automatically assessed dialog characteristics. Consequences for further research and educational practice are discussed.

“This May Create a Zero-lingual State”

Given the importance of the blogosphere for autonomous language learning, many studies on computer-assisted language learning (CALL) have vigorously investigated the use of blogs in language learning. Noticeably lacking in these endeavors are investigations of language learners’ social engagement with others in online spaces to define and negotiate their own meanings of language and language learning. To fill this gap, this study investigated the language ideologies disseminated in a Korean blog that has become a collaborative online English-learning community. Focusing on this blog owner’s ideas and her followers’ responses, I explored the language ideologies disseminated and negotiated in conversations on language learning and using. This is part of a larger virtual ethnographic study conducted over the past three years. I analyzed online posts and comments using Gee’s situated meanings (2014). Findings suggest that the Korean bloggers subscribe to monolingual ideologies because they are acutely aware of the ideological contexts in Korea surrounding English and are critical about their own language learning and using practices. The current study asserts that the blogosphere can create opportunities for language learners to contest existing knowledge and voice their opinions on issues that matter to them as language learners and members of a society.

ADVERTISING PAY PER CLICK (PPC) DENGAN GOOGLE ADSENSE PERSPEKTIF HUKUM ISLAM

The internet as an effective medium in the world of business <br />(especially in the field of marketing) from the viewpoint of the bisins to<br />market the products produced. Various models of product offerings are<br />conceptualized by business people issued to capture market segments.<br />Pay per Click (PPC) is one of several programs on the internet that has<br />the concept of giving gifts to internet users when opening<br />advertisements submitted by advertising companies through certain<br />sites. One dollar producer from the internet is Google Adsense. Google<br />Adsense is a dollar-producing affiliate program issued by Google<br />Search Engine companies by collaborating with web or blog owners in<br />terms of Advertising. With this kind of affiliate business model,<br />publishers (web owners or blogs) will get dollars from advertisements<br />displayed on the web or blog. Ads displayed on the web or blog can be<br />text or images. There are many titles for revenue generated from<br />Google Adsense. And to find out whether or not the Muslim community<br />is capable of following a business in the field of Advertising, such as<br />Pay Per Click (PPC), there needs to be a study that discusses the<br />business of Islamic Law.

Uncovering ED: A Qualitative Analysis of Personal Blogs Managed by Individuals with Eating Disorders

Previous studies have investigated the potential harmful effects of pro-eating disorder (ED) websites. Websites, such as personal blogs, may contain eating disorder content that may hold important information as well and must be considered. Fifteen blogs hosted by the site “Tumblr” were qualitatively analyzed. Each blog owner was anonymous and all were female. Ten main themes were extracted using grounded theory: interaction, negative self-worth, mind and body disturbances, pictures, eating disorders, suicide, diet, exercise, stats, and recovery. Additional themes also appeared in the study. Results indicate that although each individual blog is unique to its owner, common concepts existed among the majority. The implications for the information in the ED blogs and directions for future research are discussed.

Blog Content and Structure, Cognitive Style and Metacognition

Fifty blogs were analysed and classified according to both their content and formal structure. The SOLAT questionnaire, aimed at assessing the right (i.e., intuitive-holistic) vs. left (i.e., systematic-analytical) thinking style, was put online, and blog owners were asked to complete it in order to match their cognitive style to the “style” of their blog. Respondents were also asked some metacognitive questions in order to explore their awareness of the psychological processes that are activated by the blog that they had devised, both in their own and in other people’s mind. Results showed that blog owners are able to use effective communication strategies by differentiating the formal structure of bogs according to the content, but they lack metacognitive awareness about the mental processes activated by the blog. No relationship between the blog owner’s cognitive style and blog style was found. Implications for the educational use of blogs are discussed.

PENERAPAN SEO (SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION) MENGGUNAKAN TEKNIK TOGETHER IN A SINGLE CONNECTION (TSC) DALAM MENINGKATKAN KUNJUNGAN PADA SEBUAH BLOG

One of the internet service used by the people of Indonesia is a blog that can be accessed via http://blogspot.com or http://wordpress.com and others. Everyone can use this medium for the purpose of publication of information in the form of text, images, sounds, or video without having to master web programming languages. One of the obstacles a person who has a blog is a way of increasing number of visitors to his blog. In order for many visitors the blog owner needs to understand about SEO (Search Engine Optimization).To allow users to blog in increasing the number of visitors and ranking his blog, they invented a system that utilizes parallel processing techniques and create a new method, named TSC (Together in a Single Connection) to increase the number of visitors, number of pages viewed and ranking.Increase blog traffic system based on parallel processing can improve the effectiveness in increasing traffic to a blog. With this system the blog owner is expected to be easier to rise to visit his blog.

Internet mediated adolescent relationships

This paper aims to contribute towards the comprehension of the adhesion of adolescent to digital technologies and their usage in the search for or consolidation of relationships with their peers. The objective was to analyze the role of blogs in the maintenance and establishment of relationships among adolescents from the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Three boys’ blogs and three girls’ blogs were selected, and five pages of each blog were selected, in a total of 30 pages. Categories were elaborated from reading the posts left at the 30 pages and subsequently used to classify and quantify the posts. Messages and comments left at the blogs had a positive affective connotation, in search for approximation and contact with the blog owner. Messages were also noted for gender differences. It was concluded that some determined patterns of offline interaction guided the establishment of online relationships.

Information sharing behaviour on blogs in Taiwan: Effects of interactivities and gender differences

Although blog service providers have developed and promoted various interactive functions of their blog platforms, effects of the interactivities on posting behaviour are still vague. Based on past literature, we proposed an information sharing behaviour model involving three types of interactivities, flow and satisfaction. A survey of 586 blog owners demonstrated strong support for the model. The results indicated that flow and satisfaction were positively affected by various types of interactivities and influenced the information sharing behaviour. Furthermore, gender differences in the relationships among interactivities, flow and satisfaction were found. Finally, the implications of this research were discussed.

Gender differences in reasons for frequent blog posting

PurposeThis paper aims to improve understanding of what motivates individual blog owners to post information frequently on weblogs, and whether gender affects those motivations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a model incorporating three key determinants of the intention to update weblogs: self‐expression; subjective norms; and personal outcome expectations. These were based on Social Cognitive Theory. An empirical study involving 525 subjects was conducted to test this model.FindingsThe results indicate that subjective norms have a stronger effect on the intention than personal outcome expectations or self‐expression. Additionally, women's intention was strongly influenced by self‐expression while men's intention was strongly influenced by personal outcome expectations of using weblogs.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors verified the effects of subjective norms, personal outcome expectations and self‐expression on the intentions of weblog owners. The research found that these factors are important determinants of the intention to update weblogs. Moreover, it was found that gender moderates the relationships between factors and the intention in the research model.Practical implicationsFor weblog service providers, the results can be used to develop tools to enhance people's intentions to publish according to gender.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to a deeper understanding of the factors that promote the use of weblogs.

Copyright in a Collaborative Age

Copyright in a Collaborative Age