World Of Blogs Research Articles

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Get Social: How Reading Blogs Gets You Connected

You have accessThe ASHA LeaderGet Social1 Mar 2014Get Social: How Reading Blogs Gets You ConnectedThink cruising blogs is passive? Think again. Reading and commenting can help you build a rich professional network. Aubrey Taylor KlingensmithMS, CF-SLP Aubrey Taylor Klingensmith Google Scholar More articles by this author , MS, CF-SLP https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.GS.19032014.np SectionsAbout ToolsAdd to favorites ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In As I write this article, I've got screen tabs open for posts I'm also working on for three different blogs: Research Tuesday, Yapp Guru and my own Speechie Apps blog. I think it's safe to say I love blogging! More than that, however, I enjoy reading and interacting with other blogs and bloggers. Many professionals seem to view blogs as passive reading material, but that's far from true. Blogs are actually the perfect conduit for active engagement with other professionals. They have the benefit of being full-length articles (unlike many other abbreviated, stream-of-thought forms of social media), while also allowing the reader to interact directly with the writer and with other readers. These interactions can help you build a diverse learning network. But where to start? It's a big, burgeoning world of blogs out there, and your time is limited. As a speech-language pathologist or audiologist, it's important to know where and how to get involved. Find the right blogs. ASHAsphere offers an excellent compilation of the best SLP blogs. It was written almost two years ago, but most of the bloggers are still active, and the list is still solid. I suggest seeking blogs related to your specific clinical interests. If you want to learn more about using your iPad in therapy, for example, there are a number of bloggers who write specifically about that, as well as others who incorporate it into their general blogs. Start with SpeechTechie, Speaking of Apps, The Speech Guy, TiPS: Technology In Practice for S-LPs, and Consonantly Speaking. Work with dysphagia? Try Dysphagia Café and Dysphagia Ramblings. Love discussions of controversial issues and current research? Try Speech Adventures and Gray Matter Therapy. If you are an SLP student or a clinician looking for new therapy ideas, SLP_Echo and Sublime Speech are must-reads. The audiologists (and audiology students) among us should definitely check out The Aud Blog, Galster, and The Audiologist To Be. And anyone in need of a little (OK, a lot of) motivation for themselves or their students should be reading Erik X. Raj. Leave comments. Once you've found some great blogs, comment on your favorite articles to start engaging. Share your opinions or experiences. Respond to other commenters. Direct other readers to similar resources or ask them to do the same. Share. Chances are, you know people who would benefit from the same resources! When you read something great, share it with your Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter friends. Blogs can be very layperson-friendly, so print them out for distribution or e-mail them to parents, clients or professionals who aren't SLPs or audiologists. Bloggers always appreciate the publicity and, more importantly, your colleagues and clients will appreciate the information. Contribute. This step might not be for you, especially not right away, but you might be surprised! Once you've interacted a bit, you will likely starting developing professional and even personal relationships with bloggers and other commenters. Eventually, you may want to consider writing a guest post on a blog in your area of interest. You might be interested in writing a review for your favorite app on one of the more technology-related blogs. Or perhaps you are passionate about a controversial new research article that came out, or a new material that has thoroughly engaged your students. Many bloggers are thrilled to have guest posters share a unique perspective or add their expert advice. And, of course, you can always consider starting your own blog (www.theminimalists.com/blog/) as well! Author Notes Aubrey Taylor Klingensmith, MS, CF-SLP, blogs at Speechie Apps and works with adults in an inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care facility in Phoenix, Ariz. She is a founding partner and director of website content development for YappGuru. ·[email protected] Advertising Disclaimer | Advertise With Us Advertising Disclaimer | Advertise With Us Additional Resources FiguresSourcesRelatedDetails Volume 19Issue 3March 2014 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in print: Mar 1, 2014 Metrics Current downloads: 121 Topicsasha-topicsleader_do_tagasha-article-typesleader-topicsCopyright & Permissions© 2014 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationLoading ...

Negotiating Self-presentation, Identity, Ethics, Readership and Privacy in the LIS Blogosphere: A Review of the Literature

This paper is a review of the literature around the library and information science (LIS) blogosphere, focusing on academic librarian bloggers who maintain their own blog outside of their library workplace. The differences between library and librarian blogs are defined, followed by a brief snapshot of the history, evolution and current landscape of the LIS blogosphere. The review aims to understand what challenges these librarian bloggers face in contentious areas of their blogging practice. Key challenges that emerged were self-presentation and identity, ethical issues, readership and privacy. Through a discussion of these key challenges, issues around anonymity, disclosure, accountability to the profession, the interactivity of blogs and self-censorship come into play. The blurred lines between the personal, public, private and professional in the world of blogs are observed.

Using Blogs: authentic material and ranking quality for SLA

<p>Exposure real life language experiences forms an integral part of the acquisition process. Authentic materials – those derived from the culture of the target language rather than specially produced for language learners – increase the relevance of the learning experience by reusing texts taken directly from the target culture. Web 2.0 technologies increase opportunities for bringing authentic materials into formal language learning environments by allowing material to be collected, reused and shared amongst language teachers and learners. This paper aims to look at the role of blogs in facilitating the use of authentic material by English language teachers and learners and the impact of the most authoritative blogs in the wider Web and in Social Media.</p><p>To reach this objective, the blog ranking site Technorati was used to select the most popular blogs for English language learners and teachers and each blog was analysed according to the authenticity of the cultural material used for language learning. The analysis reveals that 100% of the material on 56.25% of the blogs selected was authentic material and over 70% of the material on a further 35.3% of blogs was authentic.</p><p>Secondly, the impact of these blogs in the wider Web and Social Media was measured in order to draw some conclusions regarding the role of language learning blogs outside the world of blogging and the communities they serve and provide an image of the relationship between blogs and bloggers, the Web and Social Media.</p><p>The results show an inherent bias within Web 2.0 technologies towards providing contemporary authentic material for language learning – the technology itself encourages its use – and that sometimes blogs can have an impact beyond their communities through the Web and Social Media.</p>

The Effects of Blogger's Moral Intensity on Ethical Decision Making

Weblogs, or blog, are rapidly becoming a mainstream technology in the information world. By June 2008, Technorati, an internet search engine, was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. Blogs allow millions of people to easily publish their ideas and millions more to read and evaluate and comment on them. When bloggers write things on their blog they became public. Although bloggers use blogs for many different functions and would likely provide many different definitions of blog (Stutzman, 2004), as we have seen, many bloggers perform journalistic functions. Therefore most moral code for bloggers is credibility in a journalistic sense (Blood, 2002; Dube, 2003), but they are nonprofessional without such code. Generally, blog audiences are built on trust, so bloggers should be honest and fair in gathering, reporting and interpreting information. For example, bloggers should disclose every benefit to any monetary (or other potentially conflicting) interests when appropriate. However, there has been almost no talk about this kind of ethics in the blog world. This study designed three ethical scenarios of blogger behavior against ethics code. Scenarios include blogger promoted her favorable food without disclosure conflict of interests, post other people’s entries without referencing material, and decoding other bloggers’ picture. The purpose of current research was to examine the perception of moral intensity and how the perception directly affected the specific processes of moral decision making of bloggers related to three scenarios.

Social Network Analysis and Information Propagation: A Case Study Using Flickr and YouTube Networks

1 Abstract—Social media and Social Network Analysis (SNA) acquired a huge popularity and represent one of the most important social and computer science phenomena of recent years. One of the most studied problems in this research area is influence and information propagation. The aim of this paper is to analyze the information diffusion process and predict the influence (represented by the rate of infected nodes at the end of the diffusion process) of an initial set of nodes in two networks: Flickr user's contacts and YouTube videos users commenting these videos. These networks are dissimilar in their structure (size, type, diameter, density, components), and the type of the relationships (explicit relationship represented by the contacts links, and implicit relationship created by commenting on videos), they are extracted using NodeXL tool. Three models are used for modeling the dissemination process: Linear Threshold Model (LTM), Independent Cascade Model (ICM) and an extension of this last called Weighted Cascade Model (WCM). Networks metrics and visualization were manipulated by NodeXL as well. Experiments results show that the structure of the network affect the diffusion process directly. Unlike results given in the blog world networks, the information can spread farther through explicit connections than through implicit relations.

Reaching your Readership through the Blogosphere

Reaching your Readership through the Blogosphere

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Recently there has been much interest in electronic commerce applications that use data mining techniques to explore datasets in the social media context. However, most of the applications have already been developed in an ad hoc manner, mainly, due to the lack of adequate tools, yielding difficulties in customizing applications and requesting high time consuming for constructing and maintaining these applications. This work addresses these problems and proposes a software framework for building Web mining applications in the blog world. The architecture of the proposed framework combines the use of blog crawling and data mining algorithms, in order to provide a complete and flexible solution for building general-purpose Web mining applications. The framework flexibility allows some important customizations, such as the construction of adapters for reading text from different blogs, and the use of different pre-processing techniques and data mining algorithms. In order to improve the efficacy of information extraction from blogs, ontology is used in the blog’s description. For this, there are software agents responsible for tracking and indexing blogs related to a specific tag and for mining blog datasets. Moreover, web services are used for encapsulating existing tools and maximize reuse.This framework has been instantiated in order to be applied for helping the blog users to effectively find out relevant information in the blog world. The focus of this paper is on describing the novel software architecture of the general framework (blog crawling and data mining) providing detailed information about the data mining sub-framework, which uses the semantic web services technology for automating service composition and consists on the main research contribution. A case study of an e-commerce application for analyzing the user’s sentiment regarding specific products is reported and its results considers the effort reduction when creating a web mining application by using the proposed integrated frameworks and existing data mining tools, as well as a qualitative analysis related to quality aspects of the developed application, such as the evolution impact.

Facts Trump Misinformation on NewDSMSite

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessFacts Trump Misinformation on New DSM SiteMark MoranMark MoranSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:3 Aug 2012https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.47.15.psychnews_47_15_16-bAbstractAPA has launched a new Web site dedicated to presenting accurate information about DSM-5 and rapidly correcting misinformation that appears in the mainstream media, opinion pages, and “blogosphere.”DSM-5 Facts, at www.dsmfacts.org, complements the existing official DSM-5 Web site that has been operating since 2010; that site, www.dsm5.org, includes the names of the numerous experts who are working on DSM-5 and documentation regarding research findings related to proposed criteria. “This is a really expansive site with hundreds of pages of links,” DSM-5 Task Force Chair David Kupfer, M.D., said.The new Facts Web site focuses on media treatment of DSM-5. “There has been a great deal of comment in the world of blogs as well as mainstream media,” APA Medical Director James H. Scully Jr., M.D., told Psychiatric News. “The information has been very mixed in terms of accuracy, so we thought it was important to have a place for members and others to get accurate, timely information.”Kupfer said, “The idea for the Web site grew out of discussions with members in the APA Assembly, who expressed the need for an easy place to go for factual information about DSM and for a rapid response to items that appear in the mainstream media.”The main page of the new site contains “Key Facts” about DSM-5, some of which have been obscured in the media. These include the following:DSM-5 is not final. Draft criteria will be further refined based on a number of factors, including the public comments APA received via DSM5. org, field-trials data, internal evaluations, and a final review by APA’s Board of Trustees.DSM-5 provides a common language for communication about mental disorders. The goal in developing DSM-5 is to produce an evidence-based manual that is useful to clinicians in helping them accurately and consistently diagnose mental disorders.DSM-5 has been an open and inclusive process. DSM-5 represents the contributions of more than 700 distinguished mental health and medical experts during an extensive and rigorous 14-year development process. The draft criteria have been opened for public review and comment via DSM5. org three times throughout the development process to ensure broad perspectives were considered.DSM-5 will not increase the number of mental disorders. In fact, as it is slated right now, there will be fewer disorders in DSM-5 than in DSM-IV. Also, relatively few diagnoses are changing substantially from the past edition.Additionally, the main page of the new Web site includes links to an article by Kupfer that appeared on Medscape; a response to allegations that appeared in a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times; a correction of some misstatement of facts in a news article that appeared in the Times; and a link to a factually accurate article about DSM-5 proposals for autism spectrum disorder that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The DSM-5 development Web site can be found at www.dsm5.org. DSM-5 facts can be found at http://dsmfacts.org. ISSUES NewArchived

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.

AN INNOVATIVE WEB MINING APPLICATION ON BLOGS - A LAYOUT

Blogs and Web services agree to express user’s opinions and interests, in the form of small text messages which gives abbreviated and highly personalized remarks in real-time. Recognizing emotion is really significant for a text-based communication tool such as blogs. Nowadays, user opinions in the structure of comments, reviews in blogs have been utilized by researchers for various purposes. Among them the application of sentiment analysis techniques to these opinions is an interesting one. This paper deals with a proposal of a software structural design for constructing Web mining applications in the blog world. The design includes blog crawling and data mining algorithms, to offer a full-fledged and flexible key for constructing general-purpose Web mining applications. The structural design allocates some significant customizations, such as the construction of adapters for reading text from different blogs, and the utilization of different pre-processing methods and data mining procedures. The core of this paper is on explaining the innovative software structural design of the general framework offering thorough information about the data mining sub-framework.

A framework for building web mining applications in the world of blogs: A case study in product sentiment analysis

Recently there has been much interest in electronic commerce applications that use data mining techniques to explore datasets in the social media context. However, most of the applications have already been developed in an ad hoc manner, mainly, due to the lack of adequate tools, yielding difficulties in customizing applications and requesting high time consuming for constructing and maintaining these applications. This work addresses these problems and proposes a software framework for building Web mining applications in the blog world. The architecture of the proposed framework combines the use of blog crawling and data mining algorithms, in order to provide a complete and flexible solution for building general-purpose Web mining applications. The framework flexibility allows some important customizations, such as the construction of adapters for reading text from different blogs, and the use of different pre-processing techniques and data mining algorithms. In order to improve the efficacy of information extraction from blogs, ontology is used in the blog’s description. For this, there are software agents responsible for tracking and indexing blogs related to a specific tag and for mining blog datasets. Moreover, web services are used for encapsulating existing tools and maximize reuse. This framework has been instantiated in order to be applied for helping the blog users to effectively find out relevant information in the blog world. The focus of this paper is on describing the novel software architecture of the general framework (blog crawling and data mining) providing detailed information about the data mining sub-framework, which uses the semantic web services technology for automating service composition and consists on the main research contribution. A case study of an e-commerce application for analyzing the user’s sentiment regarding specific products is reported and its results considers the effort reduction when creating a web mining application by using the proposed integrated frameworks and existing data mining tools, as well as a qualitative analysis related to quality aspects of the developed application, such as the evolution impact.

Life as a paramedic: an introduction to blogging

Mark Glencorse, NHS Operational Paramedic Team Leader, Author of 999medic.com, and Co-Host and European Programme Director of ‘The Chronicles of EMS’, introduces the world of blogging and the role it can play in the paramedic profession. Each month, he shall be writing an update for JPP on the main issues that emergency medical services (EMS) blogs are focusing on and the topics that are creating the best discussions. Email for correspondance: mglencorse@yahoo.co.

An online blog reading system by topic clustering and personalized ranking

There is an increasing number of people reading, writing, and commenting on blogs. According to a recent survey made by Technorati, there are about 75,000 new blogs and 1.2 million new posts everyday. However, it is difficult and time consuming for a blog reader to find the most interesting posts in the huge and dynamic blog world. In this article, an online Personalized Blog Reader (PBR) system is proposed, which facilitates blog readers in browsing the coolest and newest blog posts of their interests by automatically clustering the most relevant stories. PBR aims to make a user's potential favorite topics always ranked higher than those nonfavorite ones. This is accomplished in the following steps. First, the system collects and provides a unified incremental index of posts coming from different blogs. Then, an incremental clustering algorithm with a flexible half-bounded window of observation is proposed to satisfy the requirements of online processing. It learns people's personalized reading preferences to present a user with a final reading list. The experimental results show that the proposed incremental clustering algorithm is effective and efficient, and the personalization of the PBR performs well.

Teenagers, blogs and socialization: a case study of young French bloggers

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to better understand the world of blogs and youngsters by describing and trying to understand the young blogger. It is a first step towards questioning not only the importance of blogs for youngsters, but also the fact that blogs might constitute a virtual form of peer socialization.Design/methodology/approachThe first part of the paper deals with an account of blogs, and with peer socialization. The second part shows the results of a case study (Miss34) and of a qualitative study that allows us to better understand teenagers, blogs and socialization. Based on these pieces of information, the third part presents a discussion of the results as well as their managerial implications.FindingsThe blog is a very different mode of expression compared with others that teenagers may have access to. Blogs are not all different but, have similarities. Finally, with regard to socialization, the blog is not a substitute for the forum. Strictly speaking, teenagers essentially do not use blogs to give their opinion on products or services, but sometimes speak about products and services they buy. On the other hand, a more “passive” kind of socialization is going on through blogs.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is exploratory. The aim is not to generalize from these results. A suggestion for a future research will be to use a quantitative approach in order to be able to measure this phenomenon.Practical implicationsFrom a managerial point‐of‐view, the aim is to target the youngsters better through a better understanding of their world.Originality/valueThis paper is the first work on virtual socialization by peers.

Part I: Columns and Blogs: Making Sense of Merging Worlds

ABSTRACT The newspaper and magazine column, key sources for news comment and analysis prior to the Internet, is being challenged by a powerful new contender—the blog. Has the column's importance diminished, even been rendered obsolete, by new e-venues such as the blog? The author, appreciative of the value and history of both columns and blogs, first defines these venues of publication, gives a brief history of each, and then outlines similarities and differences between the two. With this foundation in place, the author then discusses how the boundaries between new modes of online discussion, such as blogs, and traditional modes of journalistic commentary, such as columns, are blurring. The author looks at how blogs are changing professional and academic communication, calling for discussion on how blogs and columns can serve complementary purposes. This paper was the basis for the author's presentation at a panel entitled “Column People: The Future of Columns in a World of Blogs” (with Bob Nardini) at the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference in Louisville, Kentucky in 2007.

صحافة المدونات الإلكترونية على الإنترنت

الإنترنت ، شبكة الشبكات ، ووسيلة الوسائل في عالم الاتصال والمعلومات ، قد أثرت تأثيراً بالغاً في كل جوانب دورة المعلومات حتى قلبت الأمور رأساً على عقب ، وحتى قيل أنه يمكن اليوم الفصل بين عالمين : عالم ما قبل الإنترنت وعالم ما بعدها . ولعل من أبرز معطيات الإنترنت في عالم المعلومات والصحافة هو النشر الإلكتروني والذي تأتي المدونات كأحد أشكاله . والمدونات التي بدأت بداية بطيئة على شكل يوميات شخصية تطورت وانتشرت على الإنترنت بسرعة فائقة وأصبح لها عالمها الخاص ، عالم المدونات ، وأخذت تشق طريقها في عالم الصحافة إلى الدرجة التي أصبحت عليها تنافس الصحافة التقليدية (إذاعة ، راديو ، صحف) وأصبح لها مجتمعها من المدونين (أصحاب المدونات) وكتّابها وقرّاؤها .ومن وجهة نظر علم اجتماع الإنترنت ينظر إلى المدونات باعتبارها وسيلة للتعبير والتواصل والدعاية والإعلان للمؤسسات والأفراد . ومن جانب آخر ، يُنظر إلى المدونات بوصفها أحد أساليب المشابكة الاجتماعية التي يمكن أن تدفع أصحابها وروادها للانخراط والتكيف مع تقنيات إدارة المحتوى لأجل تلبية احتياجاتهم الخاصة بتطوير مجتمع افتراضي ينبض بالحيوية والنشاط.ومن هنا يأتي هذا البحث لتناول موضوع المدونات الإلكترونية على الإنترنت وذلك لقلة، بل ندرة الكتابات العربية عن المدونات ، وقلة عدد المدونات العربية على الإنترنت . ويعتقد الباحث أن هذا الحال يعود إلى عدم انتشار ثقافة المدونات الإلكترونية في البلدان العربية مما أدى الى الجهل بالمدونات ووجودها على الإنترنت ، وكيفية إنشائها وإدارتها وديمومتها والإفادة منها . إن أهمية هذا البحث تتجسد في كونه إسهامة في نشر ثقافة المدونات الإلكترونية ، والتي - أي ثقافة المدونات - ستؤدي بدورها إلى انتشار المدونات على الإنترنت وبالتالي توفير فرص كبيرة أمام من يبحث عن الخبر الصحفي أو الرأي الحر أو ما يقع من أحداث من خلال وجهة نظر محايدة ، غير متأثرة بضغوط سياسية أو اجتماعية أو رقابة حكومية والتي غالباً ما تتعرض لها الصحافة التقليدية وتتأثر بها . كما أن انتشار المدونات العربية على الإنترنت سيفتح المجال أمام التعبير الحر عن الرأي دون أي تأثير أو اجتهاد يمكن أن يمارس في الصحافة التقليدية . استخدم الباحث في إجراء هذا البحث المنهج الوصفي القائم على وصف وتحليل المدونات الإلكترونية على الإنترنت ، بالإضافة إلى الملاحظات التي تم الحصول عليها من أدبيات الموضوع المنشورة ، ومن زيارة العديد من مواقع المدونات الإلكترونية على الإنترنت - العربية والأجنبية وتصفحها.

Who Let the Blogs Out? A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Blogs

Who Let the Blogs Out? A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Blogs

It's a Blog, Blog, Blog World: Users and Uses of Weblogs

This study surveyed 3,747 Weblog readers online from April 23, 2003, to May 22, 2003, to examine their motives for using Weblogs. Weblog users tend to be young, highly educated men with high incomes. Respondents report moderate to high levels of trust in government, high self-efficacy, and high interest in political and general news. A factor analysis revealed six primary motivations for accessing Weblogs: information seeking and media check, convenience, personal fulfillment, political surveillance, social surveillance, and expression and affiliation. Additionally, hierarchical regression found that political involvement predicted all six Weblog motivations. Further, each of the independent variables predicted at least one of the Weblog motivations.

Using the world of blogs for project and financial management

Weblogs or “blogs” are a recent addition to the library professional's toolkit. They can be particularly useful to library managers, whether as a means of maintaining current awareness of managerial trends or as a cheap alternative to project management software.