The Psychology of Blogging: You, Me, and Everyone in Between Export

@article{citeulike:3049773, abstract = {The phenomenon and practice of blogging offers a rich environment from which to look at the psychology of the Internet. By using blogging as a lens, researchers can see that many predictions and findings of early Internet research on social and psychological features of computer-mediated communication have held true, whereas others are not as true, and that the psychology of the Internet is very much a sense of the one and the many, the individual and the collective, the personal and the political. Blogs illustrate the fusion of key elements of human desire--to express one's identity, create community, structure one's past and present experiences--with the main technological features of 21st century digital communication. Blogs can serve as a lens to observe the way in which people currently use digital technologies and, in return, transform some of the traditional cultural norms--such as those between the public and the private. 10.1177/0002764208321341}, author = {Gurak, Laura J. and Antonijevic, Smiljana}, citeulike-article-id = {3049773}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764208321341}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/60}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0002764208321341}, journal = {American Behavioral Scientist}, keywords = {blogging}, month = {September}, number = {1}, pages = {60--68}, posted-at = {2008-08-24 04:18:48}, priority = {2}, title = {The Psychology of Blogging: You, Me, and Everyone in Between}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764208321341}, volume = {52}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3049773 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3049773 N2 - The phenomenon and practice of blogging offers a rich environment from which to look at the psychology of the Internet. By using blogging as a lens, researchers can see that many predictions and findings of early Internet research on social and psychological features of computer-mediated communication have held true, whereas others are not as true, and that the psychology of the Internet is very much a sense of the one and the many, the individual and the collective, the personal and the political. Blogs illustrate the fusion of key elements of human desire--to express one's identity, create community, structure one's past and present experiences--with the main technological features of 21st century digital communication. Blogs can serve as a lens to observe the way in which people currently use digital technologies and, in return, transform some of the traditional cultural norms--such as those between the public and the private. 10.1177/0002764208321341 IS - 1 JF - American Behavioral Scientist EP - 68 TI - The Psychology of Blogging: You, Me, and Everyone in Between VL - 52 SP - 60 KW - blogging AU - Gurak, Laura AU - Antonijevic, Smiljana PY - 2008/09/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764208321341 ER -