Why blog? : motivations for blogging /
Pedersen, Sarah (Professor of communication and media),
Why blog? : motivations for blogging / Sarah Pedersen. - 1 online resource (ix, 152 pages) : illustrations - Chandos information professional series . - Chandos information professional series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
Introduction -- The journal blog: a traditional form mediated by the Internet -- The journalism motivation -- Beneficial blogging -- Do privacy concerns impact on blogging motivations? -- The money motive -- Blogs as tools -- Doing it for different reasons I: women's motivations for blogging -- Doing it for different reasons II: Americans and Brits.
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'Weblogging' or 'blogging' has joined e-mail and Internet home pages as one of the most popular uses of the Internet. This book focuses on the British blogosphere, comparing British bloggers to the more researched US. Motivations covered include the desire to connect with others online, the need to express opinions or blow off steam, or to share experiences, and a growing financial motivation in the blogosphere. Other motivations explored include a desire to become a 'citizen journalist', a need for validation, the commercial possibilities of blogging and the possibility of turning your blog into a published 'book'. Expands the discussion of the blogging phenomenon outside the USFocuses on the British blogosphere, comparing British bloggers to the more researched USIncludes a discussion of the motivations of women bloggers.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781780631714 1780631715
C20130168092 9781843345831
Blogs--Social aspects.
Online journalism.
Mass media--Social aspects.
HM851 / .P43 2010eb
303.4833
Why blog? : motivations for blogging / Sarah Pedersen. - 1 online resource (ix, 152 pages) : illustrations - Chandos information professional series . - Chandos information professional series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
Introduction -- The journal blog: a traditional form mediated by the Internet -- The journalism motivation -- Beneficial blogging -- Do privacy concerns impact on blogging motivations? -- The money motive -- Blogs as tools -- Doing it for different reasons I: women's motivations for blogging -- Doing it for different reasons II: Americans and Brits.
Use copy
'Weblogging' or 'blogging' has joined e-mail and Internet home pages as one of the most popular uses of the Internet. This book focuses on the British blogosphere, comparing British bloggers to the more researched US. Motivations covered include the desire to connect with others online, the need to express opinions or blow off steam, or to share experiences, and a growing financial motivation in the blogosphere. Other motivations explored include a desire to become a 'citizen journalist', a need for validation, the commercial possibilities of blogging and the possibility of turning your blog into a published 'book'. Expands the discussion of the blogging phenomenon outside the USFocuses on the British blogosphere, comparing British bloggers to the more researched USIncludes a discussion of the motivations of women bloggers.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781780631714 1780631715
C20130168092 9781843345831
Blogs--Social aspects.
Online journalism.
Mass media--Social aspects.
HM851 / .P43 2010eb
303.4833