Noor Ali-Hasan: Master's Thesis - Abstract

@unpublished{citeulike:1890001, abstract = {During the past few years, blogging, the keeping of a regularly updated online journal, has enabled individuals and organizations to quickly and easily share information and links with a large set of readers. Nonetheless, most bloggers write about their everyday lives and generally have a small audience of regular readers. These readers usually respond to the bloggers’ specific entries (referred to as blog posts) by entering short messages (known as comments) on the same blog. Moreover, the readers are often times bloggers themselves and acknowledge their favorite blogs by adding them to their blogrolls, lists of links to other blogs that are posted on most blogs. In reviewing the social structures created by blogrolls and blog comments, it is unclear how these relationships and social networks were formed. Did these social networks emerge due to blogging or are these blogospheres merely representations of real life social networks? In other words, do blogs help facilitate the formation of new friendships or do they emphasize existing relationships in the real world? Furthermore, how do the social aspects of blogging differ across various cultures? Examining the link between blogs and real life social networks, this thesis presents a study of three blog communities: bloggers in Kuwait, bloggers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and bloggers in the United Arab Emirates.}, author = {Ali-Hasan, Noor }, citeulike-article-id = {1890001}, howpublished = {Privately Published}, keywords = {dissertation}, posted-at = {2007-11-09 14:56:30}, priority = {3}, school = {University of Michigan}, title = {Noor Ali-Hasan: Master's Thesis - Abstract}, url = {http://www.noor.bz/blogstudy/}, year = {2007} }

TY - UNPB ID - citeulike:1890001 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1890001 TI - Noor Ali-Hasan: Master's Thesis - Abstract N2 - During the past few years, blogging, the keeping of a regularly updated online journal, has enabled individuals and organizations to quickly and easily share information and links with a large set of readers. Nonetheless, most bloggers write about their everyday lives and generally have a small audience of regular readers. These readers usually respond to the bloggers’ specific entries (referred to as blog posts) by entering short messages (known as comments) on the same blog. Moreover, the readers are often times bloggers themselves and acknowledge their favorite blogs by adding them to their blogrolls, lists of links to other blogs that are posted on most blogs. In reviewing the social structures created by blogrolls and blog comments, it is unclear how these relationships and social networks were formed. Did these social networks emerge due to blogging or are these blogospheres merely representations of real life social networks? In other words, do blogs help facilitate the formation of new friendships or do they emphasize existing relationships in the real world? Furthermore, how do the social aspects of blogging differ across various cultures? Examining the link between blogs and real life social networks, this thesis presents a study of three blog communities: bloggers in Kuwait, bloggers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and bloggers in the United Arab Emirates. KW - dissertation AU - Ali-Hasan, Noor PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.noor.bz/blogstudy/ ER -