Weblogs: Credibility and Collaboration in an Online World Export

@misc{citeulike:5914716, abstract = {Weblogs are altering knowledge work and practices among existing groups and creating new knowledge communities. In my work, I am examining knowledge practices, especially those of trust and credibility, in topical, issueoriented weblogging. My interest is not in weblogs as much as in what blogging reveals about how looselyconnected, distributed groups solve the practical problems of establishing trust and credibility in a networked world. Here I report some preliminary observations about how bloggers assess one another's credibility and signal their credibility to one another that I think might contribute to a larger discussion of trust and information sharing in a distributed setting. Many of my observations are at this point preliminary but directly relevant to the workshop issues of disclosure, trust, and privacy. Three observations are examined. First, the norms of blogging promote a high degree of self-disclosure. Second, to whom a blogger links and what s/he says in the process reveals useful information about their evaluation criteria. Third, this kind of blogging is a kind of informal ” publishing ” of work-inprogress, not just preliminary conclusions but the process of investigation. What does blogging tell us about people's willingness to do this? In short, why does blogging promote (or reflect) a culture of free sharing of information?}, author = {Van House, Nancy}, citeulike-article-id = {5914716}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.126.6034}, keywords = {ethos, weblogs}, posted-at = {2009-10-09 08:52:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Weblogs: Credibility and Collaboration in an Online World}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.126.6034} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:5914716 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5914716 N2 - Weblogs are altering knowledge work and practices among existing groups and creating new knowledge communities. In my work, I am examining knowledge practices, especially those of trust and credibility, in topical, issueoriented weblogging. My interest is not in weblogs as much as in what blogging reveals about how looselyconnected, distributed groups solve the practical problems of establishing trust and credibility in a networked world. Here I report some preliminary observations about how bloggers assess one another’s credibility and signal their credibility to one another that I think might contribute to a larger discussion of trust and information sharing in a distributed setting. Many of my observations are at this point preliminary but directly relevant to the workshop issues of disclosure, trust, and privacy. Three observations are examined. First, the norms of blogging promote a high degree of self-disclosure. Second, to whom a blogger links and what s/he says in the process reveals useful information about their evaluation criteria. Third, this kind of blogging is a kind of informal “publishing ” of work-inprogress, not just preliminary conclusions but the process of investigation. What does blogging tell us about people’s willingness to do this? In short, why does blogging promote (or reflect) a culture of free sharing of information? TI - Weblogs: Credibility and Collaboration in an Online World KW - ethos KW - weblogs AU - Van House, Nancy UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.126.6034 ER -