TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pedersen,Sarah
TI  - Why blog?: motivations for blogging 
T2  - Chandos information professional series
SN  - 9781780631714
AV  - HM851 .P43 2010eb
U1  - 303.4833 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Chandos Publishing
KW  - Blogs
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Online journalism
KW  - Mass media
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - '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
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781843345831
ER  -