Blog Community Research Articles

You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs

ABSTRACT Mommy blog communities have been established by mothers who publish their stories online with the stated purpose to empower themselves and their peers by offering a seemingly unfiltered representation of motherhood. While this benefit has been felt by many readers, there are invisible governing discourses that have prevented such blogs from becoming authentic spaces of resistance to the hegemonic ideals of motherhood. To understand the governing forces placed upon mothers through “mommy blogs,” we explored the question: How is motherhood shaped through narratives (re)presented in mommy blogs? Critical discourse analysis, informed by a governmentality perspective, was used to analyze mommy blog entries to illuminate representations of power and knowledge within the blog entries. The findings suggest that a governmentality perspective is useful in understanding how mommy blogs enact power over mothers using mechanisms of governance through 1) sameness and imperfection, 2) perceived self-compassion, 3) advice and support, and 4) the scientification of motherhood. As more people turn to online communities for support with the experience of mothering, it is important to garner a critical understanding of how mommy blogs continue to influence contemporary experiences of motherhood.

Technical Blog

A blog is an online repository of experience, knowledge, and data that users post and share with other users in the form of text, video, or image files. Any experience, understanding, or knowledge that the user feels like sharing with other blog community members in order to disseminate information and other materials can be found on a blog website. He or she is free to publish anything they like, but they also have to abide by some regulations around disciplinary content that shouldn't be made obvious to other members of the community. Here "Build A Healthy and Interactive Community which will be on Benefit for Everyone" is our most essential motto. This project is an all-inclusive web portal offering a vast array of technical information topros, amateurs, and students alike. Using simple navigation and interactive tools, users can study articles, tutorials, and debates spanning a variety of technical subjects. Users may create, edit, and share insights with the help of content management systems, and strong user authentication and role-based access guarantee secure interactions. Thanks to robust search features and a lively community-driven environment, users can easily locate and engage with pertinent material. Using efficient moderating tools, administrators uphold the integrity of the platform, promoting a secure and cooperative atmosphere. With scalability, performance, and security as our top priorities, our TechBlog initiative aims to stimulate learning, make information sharing easier, and encourage creativity in the tech community

The natural wine phenomenon and the promise of sustainability: Institutionalization or radicalization?

AbstractNatural wine is produced with organic grapes without the use of additives. As a social phenomenon, it comprises rural winemakers and urban consumers interconnected by a vibrant global community of distributors, bloggers, experts, and associations. Despite its continuous growth since the early 2000s, the movement has sparked global public interest since the French recognition of the vin méthode nature certification in 2020. Here we delineate the evolution of the natural wine phenomenon from its origins to its current situation. It will be argued that rather than a social movement or an alternative food network, natural wine can be better understood as a food phenomenon exhibiting a sustainable alternative mode of production and consumption that unites a loose coalition of diverse actors. In exploring the constant tensions involved in the ongoing redefinition of natural wine by social actors, we will analyze their different understandings of locality, naturalness, and ethical food production.

Social Relationship and Content Analyses in an Online Class Community under Covid-19

Clarifying the blog’s background and successfully grasping its main subject are essential components of any examination of the blogging community. There are numerous previous researches on how to evaluate blogs and comments to discover the connections and content in a social group. This work seeks to focus on blog comments based on students’ relationships and conduct in a class community and to complement prior research techniques by emphasizing the importance of blog community analysis under Covid-19. It also provides an evaluation of the participation and performance results. We mainly focus on analyzing comments as the interaction among students and discuss the similarity in some highly performance students. With the help of social network analysis for online course student behavior, some tendency related to student behavior in this group has been shown in the experiment results by bias analysis, Pearson correlation, and Latent Dirichlet allocation, which serve as the data processing tools in this experiment.

Queering Bangladeshi Blogging Networks: Legal Rights, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Politics of Blog Publics in Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ Activism

Abstract LGBTQ+ activism in Bangladesh is a comparatively less explored avenue in queer Asia studies. Although academic and socio-political conversations around hijra and transgender communities in Bangladesh are more often foregrounded, scholarly discussions around gay, lesbian, and bisexual experiences and identities are rarely pursued. This is partly due to the vitriolic and brutal treatment of gay, lesbian, and bisexual subjects and allies in the Bangladeshi nation-state where both socio-cultural ideology and legislative principles are dominated by pro-Islamic religious doctrines and colonial-time legislature that make non-normative sexual identities and acts invalid and punishable. Currently, the gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual queer communities of Bangladesh exist as “enclave publics” in the Bangladeshi online and networked media-spheres, particularly after the 2016 killings of Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi, leaders of the first organized Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ activist community. However, certain queer and decolonial counter-public formation around specific alternative Bangladeshi blogs and archival websites have opened new avenues for a more sustained LGBTQ+ resistance. In this article, I problematize the approach of Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ activism and critically analyze how adopting Western frameworks of queer activism, primarily based on pro-visibility, coming-out strategies, and pride rallies, presented itself with extreme existential challenges for gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual individuals in key digital platforms. I also re-evaluate liberal narratives around progressive digital activism in Bangladeshi blogging networks to argue how blog-publics in progressive and secular platforms like Somewhere in . . . fail to protest queer oppression and advocate for queer rights. The examination observes that so-called secular blogging communities in Bangladesh is only selectively progressive, and regarding questions around the rights of LGBTQ+ subjects, makes increasingly clear that conservative and religious doctrines continue to undergird its discursive and affective logics. Finally, I closely analyze Mondro (2019), an enclave queer digital archive and alternative blogging platform for LGBTQ+ subjects in Bangladesh, created in response to the oppression and hate queer subjects face in traditional blogging communities. Predominantly centering Bengali culture, heritage, and tradition, the Mondro community secretly arranges workshops for LGBTQ+ peers on issues around mental-health, healing, and suicide prevention. Here, I claim that alternative queer communities like Mondro, that remain hidden from traditional blogging networks and mainstream media, where queer bloggers and allies mostly post anonymously, is not necessarily a move backwards into the closet, rather a timely tactical intervention for queer identities and narratives to survive and possibly thrive within the digital networks of the Bangladeshi blogosphere. This is an approach that takes the issues around queer survival in Bangladesh seriously, acknowledging and reconciling both its own cultural historicities and its situatedness in a religious sectarian nation-state. To this end, I usefully investigate Mondro through Ahmed Sofa (আহমেদ ছফা) (1981) and Kuan-Hsing Chen's (2010) decolonial frameworks of placing Asia at the center of any conceivable model of networked queer resistance and LGBTQ+ world-making in Bangladesh.

Community Blogs Implementation for an Organization

Abstract: Community-based blogging sites can be excellent resources for knowledge on a wide range of specialized subjects. Such systems' usefulness significantly depends on user participation and contribution. In addition to offering information and resources on specialized subjects. These websites can promote a sense of belonging and support, and they can be a great place to gather advice and information on particular subjects.

Adults with ME/CFS report surprisingly high rates of youth symptoms: A qualitative analysis of patient blog commentary.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating chronic illness that impacts pediatric populations. The current study aimed to better understand adult perceptions of their experiences leading up to their diagnosis of ME/CFS. Patients provided data regarding symptoms of ME/CFS they may have experienced during childhood through a popular community blog forum, with participants interacting via blog comments in real-time and across various geographical locations. Descriptive analyses indicated that roughly 43% of adult survey participants reported having developed ME/CFS prior to age 18. A standard content analysis of patient blog commentary revealed several themes, such as poor mental health, family pattern/history, healthy childhood preceding sick adulthood, feeling misunderstood, lack of clarity until adulthood, sharing of resources, poor school functioning, isolation/poor social supports, and coping mechanisms. There are unique benefits and insights that can be used by investigators who collaborate with patient organizations as a means of better understanding ME/CFS illness severity, presentation, and lived experiences.

From Pedagogy to Andragogy in Post Covid-19 ESP Courses: A Customized Blended Learning Model for English in Medicine at a Saudi University

Teaching an ESP course is significantly challenging due to its practical, contextual, and communicative nature as a “language in context” and a prerequisite for acquiring professional skills and job-related functions that require real life learning situations to imitate specific professional settings and accentuates practicing the essential English language skills that students would primarily employ in their future fields. This paper presents an andragogy-based customized blended learning model for English in Medicine course introduced to students of the preparatory year program during COVID-19 pandemic. Integrating andragogical principles, the course identifies students’ access to multimodal tools for required English Language skills and medical vocabulary, including a virtual listening lab for augmenting listening skills, a virtual medical library for boosting online medical reading, a virtual hospital of different doctor-patient interaction scenarios for practicing the use of language in context, course community blogs and audio discussion forums for enhancing writing and speaking skills, an online medical dictionary for understanding and translating medical terminologies and integrated Kahoot games for testing field related knowledge. A mixed methodology of pre-test and post-test research design along with a learning satisfaction survey were used to evaluate the change in variables which were students’ English Language proficiency, cognitive competence, learning motivation, and learning styles. The study findings establish the effectivity of the shift from pedagogic to andragogic strategies in the course. It supports integrating pedagogic constructive theories along with adult learning theories and blended education theories to ensure productive teaching and learning of ESP courses in accordance with the constrictions of quality modern education.

Audiovisual content of cultural journalism in wartime to the issue of national identity

The research relevance is defined by the mission of cultural journalism that is clearly aware of the changes in society’s values and historical topics, modern narratives of Ukrainian culture, language, and history both for the domestic consumer and abroad. The research subject is the audiovisual content of the Ukrainian media space, which is represented by a community of media professionals, amateurs, and video bloggers. This is due to the simplification of video production technologies and the availability of communication platforms for the distribution of audiovisual content. The aim of the research is to consider the impact of cultural journalism in the form of audiovisual content on the processes of creating national identity and self-awareness of Ukrainians during the war. The methods of content analysis, cultural and semantic analysis were used to achieve the goal. As a result of the research, the special role of wartime cultural journalism in the process of creating national identity was proved. It should also be taken into account that long-term research into the nature of an audiovisual work has proven the power of its influence on the processes of forming values and the worldview of a mass audience, however, this segment of the media space is not used enough in cultural journalism today. The majority of audiovisual content in the media today consists of conversational informational and analytical formats like video blogs of experts, analysts, and opinion leaders on relevant wartime topics. Many young Ukrainian YouTube amateurs create and promote such content very actively. At the same time, the creation and distribution of similar projects by professional media have a non-systematic nature, often a convergent form. On the one hand, the simplification of video production technologies and the availability of communication platforms led to the explosion and distribution of amateur audiovisual content on the topics of Ukrainian culture and history. On the other hand, insufficient attention of journalists and editors of Ukrainian media to audiovisual journalistic works of artistic and journalistic genres on the relevant subject is observed. Hybridization takes the place of genres into situational formats and the rapid development of cultural journalism and video blogging covering the topics of Ukrainian culture and history. The specified processes testify to the effectiveness of the factors of national identity creation in the media space today and outline the perspective of research on the specified problem.

A research article on Importance of Online Customer Reviews on Customer Purchase

Online product reviews have grown into a valuable source of information influencing purchases with the rise of digital and social media. Customer reviews are a type of feedback for online stores and electronic commerce. Nowadays, consumers have constant access to online product reviews because to resources like smart phones, 24x7 internet access, and other resources to access websites. This product review has developed into a well-liked and successful marketing and sales tool that influences consumer product purchase behaviour. There are many platforms, such as online retailer websites, E-Commerce websites, brand websites, brand community blogs, and third-party reviews, where consumers can participate and engage in discussions about their purchase and consumption experience. Consumer opinions may influence the overall product sales and assist a customer in making a purchase. The goal of this study was to determine whether there is a link between consumer reviews and consumer buying habits. The purpose of this study is to clarify how various internet reviews affect consumers' purchasing decisions and intents. Online customer reviews (OCRs) are now a key resource for product details and have a significant impact on consumers' purchasing decisions. The decision-making process for consumer purchases has been significantly impacted as a result. OCRs' implications on customer behaviour have recently drawn a lot of scholarly interest. Therefore, it is necessary to review these impacts. The most recent research on the connections and linkages between OCRs and client buying is thus examined in this study.

Community Blog and Narrative Inquiry as Tools for Technology-Enhanced Professional Development for ESL Teachers

Community Blog and Narrative Inquiry as Tools for Technology-Enhanced Professional Development for ESL Teachers

A social network analysis of tourism cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta: A supply and demand perspective.

This study explores the spatial structure of regional tourism cooperation networks among 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta from the perspective of supply and demand. Data from the supply network were collected from official news released by the Chinese government and quotations for tour routes published by travel agencies. Travel notes published on tourists’ blog community platforms about their travel experiences were used as source data for the demand network. The degree of cooperation between the cities was analyzed based on the frequency of occurrence and co-occurrence of information on tourist attractions or cities in the Yangtze River Delta region in tourist notes, tourist route quotes, and official news. This study divides 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region into three categories: those where supply matches demand (e.g., Shanghai and Nanjing), nine cities where there is a demand lag (e.g., Zhenjiang), and 16 cities where there is a supply lag (e.g., Wuxi). Investigating the differences between the supply and demand networks is helpful to understand the effectiveness of regional tourism cooperation mechanisms and government policies, which is crucial for the sustainability and good governance of regional tourism.

Struggle for Substantive Justice and Community Development: Transgender Subjects in Contemporary India

This paper discusses the transgender community's fight for justice and developmental rights since 2014 and the response of the Indian Government toward this assertion. The point of choosing 2014 as the starting point is not because the fight for their justice actually begins in this year but because India witnessed an intensification and an increase in public visibility of transgenders’ mobilization following the recognition of members of transgender communities as legal citizens through the landmark Indian Supreme Court (Court) verdict called the National Legal Services Authority Union of India (NALSA). In documenting transgenders’ mobilization and the state's response, the author has substantially relied on secondary sources—newspaper articles and pieces in magazines, blogs, and other online community networks. The narratives of a few transgender activists and intellectuals reaffirm the critiques offered through the media and online community blogs and networks. It gives one the impression of a neoliberal state, which, while willing to protect the constitutional rights of many marginalized groups, finds it hard to fulfill promises that might require the allocation of substantial fiscal and monetary resources. The consistent collective mobilizations of the transgender communities, however, resulted in some concrete gains and developmental rights.

Protocol for #iBeatCRC: a community-based intervention to increase early-onset colorectal cancer awareness using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach

IntroductionThe last two decades have seen a twofold increase in colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence among individuals under the recommended screening age of 50 years. Although the origin of this early-onset...

The Psychology of Blogging Communities: Social Identities and Knowledge Transfer Across Work-Groups

In this article, we propose that blog communities can enhance knowledge transfer in organization. They do so by shaping bloggers' group (subordinate) and organizational (superordinate) identities, which affect knowledge sharing between members of different work-groups in an organization. Building on existing research on psychological identity and on knowledge transfer, we make the case for the benefits of integrating these two research streams; more important, we identify blogging communities as factors in shaping individuals' identities and potentially facilitating knowledge transfer within organizations.

Predicting Success and Failure in Weight Loss Blogs through Natural Language Use

We explore the emerging phenomenon of blogging about personal goals, and demonstrate how natural language processing tools can be used to uncover psychologically meaningful constructs in blogs. We describe features of a blog community (2638 blogs) devoted to weight loss. We compare several approaches to text analysis in predicting weight loss from natural language use in a subset of the blogs (258 users; over 13,000 entries). First, we use a bag of words approach to distinguish the degree to which individual words can predict success and failure. Next, we compare the results to a deductive word count and categorization tool, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. We discuss the theoretical significance of the words and word categories that distinguish between bloggers who succeed and those who fail in their weight loss attempts, along with the implications of automated text analysis in summarizing psychological features of blogs

Paradoxical positivity: Suicide notes use less distressed language than blogs about depression, suicidal thoughts, and even cooking.

While suicide attempts and deaths increase, research and assessment methods have stagnated in terms of increasing predictive power. Lexical analysis has been a useful method in descriptive suicide research, but may have utility for assessment and prediction. The present study used lexical analysis to examine language differences across a spectrum of psychological distress, with death by suicide as the most extreme indicator. Suicide writings were collected for 38 persons who died by suicide in two southern U.S. cities. Blog writings were collected from the "Depression" and "Suicide" categories of an online mental health discussion community and from food blogging communities (n=38 each). Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count was used to calculate proportions of words that fell into lexical categories indicative of distress. One-way ANOVA revealed significant differences in first-person singular pronouns and words related to positive emotions, negative emotions, religion, and death. Suicide notes were found to use less frequent lexical markers of distress than depression and suicide ideation blogs, and more frequent positive emotion language than all comparison groups. The present findings suggest that deciding to take one's life may be associated with a decrease in distress, and possibly an increase in positive emotion, when compared to those experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts.

Why people join pro-Ana online communities? A psychological textual analysis of eating disorder blog posts

The study aimed to examine the different contents of posts published in an online community for eating disorders among four groups (Pro-Ana, Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorder). The hypothesis was that Pro-Ana group members would have a greater propensity to deny the negative aspects of their eating disorder and a greater social adherence to their own blog community compared to the other groups. 1791 posts, collected from December 2018 to March 2019, were analyzed using quantitative analyses of the text through T-LAB software (version T-Lab Plus 2020). The cluster analysis of the text showed that Pro-Ana group appears to be more represented by “social sharing” cluster compared to the other groups, exhibiting a greater tendency to exchange social support about their eating behaviors. Factorial space analysis reported that Pro-Ana people tend to be less capable to provide realistic representation of their eating disorder than the other groups. Finally, Pro-Ana group members showed a greater social adherence in terms of satisfaction ratings (ratio “likes”/“views” to each post) compared to the other groups.

Stereotypical Representation of a Female Politician in the Language Consciousness of Twitter Users

The study focuses on issues related to gender stereotypes of the blog community based on bloggers’ individual reactions and their impact on the perception of female politicians. The sample comprises tweets of the Russian- and English-speaking segments of this microblog, selected by keywords (based on the researcher’s view on the component structure of the thematic group «women in politics» and the representativeness of the sample) and collected with the help of the Python programming language. The classification of female politicians’ characteristics significant for users is made on the basis of feminine-masculine and psychophysiological criteria (according to E. G. Bakhteeva’s classification). The distribution of characteristics attributed to a female politician allows the researcher to determine which characteristics help women to fulfil their potential in politics or, on the contrary, hinder a successful political career. The results are interpreted in two aspects. On the one hand, from the point of view of the quantitative representation (percentage of characteristic groups), the field structure of the gender stereotype is compiled. On the other hand, in terms of qualitative indicator (content of characteristic’s groups, connotative components), the correlation of characteristics is identified and their visualization is performed with the help of Gephi software. As a result, the study builds models of a female-politician’s stereotypical image in the Russian- and English-speaking segments of Twitter and carries out their their comparative analysis. According to the first type of model, personal characteristics that may be inherent in both men and women are important for Russian- and English-speaking Twitter users, while typical masculine characteristics are the least relevant. For Russian-speaking users, high moral qualities are particularly relevant, while English-speaking bloggers appreciate high professional qualities. The graphs demonstrate that the language consciousness of the blog community tends to masculinize the stereotypical image of a female politician. Thus, a contradiction arises: bloggers explicitly acclaim the equal right for both men and women to fulfill their potential in politics, they recognize and accept the fact that women can be successful in the highest political positions and establishments and approve of the activity of particular women politicians. At the same time, traditional gender stereotypes, claiming that politics is a male sphere, implicitly retain their influence.

Children’s and youth samizdat at the beginning of the XXI century (based on the materials of the Siberian-Far Eastern Region)

Amateur children’s and youth press (samizdat) has historical roots in Russia, including in the Siberian-far Eastern region. At each stage it was characterized by specific features conditioned by socio-cultural factors of the time. The purpose of the article is to analyze current trends in the development of children’s samizdat. The work is based on an extensive source database. The author analyzed data from “The Russian school press Register”, looked through PDF-versions and online school publications on the official pages of almost one hundred educational institutions in the region, as well as individual printed samples of children’s and youth amateur magazines, studied the sites “Dai Zin”, “Children’s samizdat” and a number of blog communities popular with teenagers. The investigation showed that in the first quarter of the new Millennium the unique phenomenon called samizdat is an actively developing part of the information space. There was a quantitative growth of children’s and youth (teenage) press. Its type-specific and content characteristics have become more diverse. Along with subcultural periodicals prepared by young correspondent, home-made book are also published. The rapid development of new information technologies has resulted in the emergence of new forms of self-publishing: online magazines, blogs of young authors.