Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary? Export

@inproceedings{1885, abstract = {"Blogging" is a Web-based form of communication that is rapidly becoming mainstream. In this paper, we report the results of an ethnographic study of blogging, focusing on blogs written by individuals or small groups, with limited audiences. We discuss motivations for blogging, the quality of social interactivity that characterized the blogs we studied, and relationships to the blogger's audience. We consider the way bloggers related to the known audience of their personal social networks as well as the wider "blogosphere" of unknown readers. We then make design recommendations for blogging software based on these findings.}, author = {Nardi, Bonnie and Schiano, Diane and Gumbrecht, Michelle}, booktitle = {CSCW}, citeulike-article-id = {2966222}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://home.comcast.net/~diane.schiano/CSCW04.Blog.pdf}, comment = {Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary?}, keywords = {audience, consequences, definition, ethnographic, file-import-08-07-05, internet, interview, lifelogs, weblogs}, pages = {11+}, pdf = {internal-pdf://nardi blogging as social activity-3015986688/nardi blogging as social activity.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-07-05 15:28:09}, priority = {0}, title = {Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary?}, url = {http://home.comcast.net/~diane.schiano/CSCW04.Blog.pdf}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - 1885 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2966222 N2 - "Blogging" is a Web-based form of communication that is rapidly becoming mainstream. In this paper, we report the results of an ethnographic study of blogging, focusing on blogs written by individuals or small groups, with limited audiences. We discuss motivations for blogging, the quality of social interactivity that characterized the blogs we studied, and relationships to the blogger's audience. We consider the way bloggers related to the known audience of their personal social networks as well as the wider "blogosphere" of unknown readers. We then make design recommendations for blogging software based on these findings. TI - Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary? T2 - CSCW SP - 11 KW - audience KW - consequences KW - definition KW - ethnographic KW - file-import-08-07-05 KW - internet KW - interview KW - lifelogs KW - weblogs N1 - Blogging as Social Activity, or, Would You Let 900 Million People Read Your Diary? AU - Nardi, Bonnie AU - Schiano, Diane AU - Gumbrecht, Michelle PY - 2004/// UR - http://home.comcast.net/~diane.schiano/CSCW04.Blog.pdf ER -