Blogger Motivations: Power, Pull, and Positive Feedback Export

@misc{2265, abstract = {In the spring of 2005 I spoke with college student bloggers about their motivations for starting and continuing their blog, a frequently modified web page. The content of these blogs ranged from personal to political to poetry, although the majority of those I interviewed kept personal journal blogs. There were several factors that motivated these college students to begin and continue the sometimes risky activity of blogging including: the power over the web site, the pull medium where their audience actively accesses content, and the generally positive feedback from unknown readers, particularly on personal subjects. I found many similarities between blogs and personal home pages with one important difference—people read them. This one factor, which results from the expectation of frequent updates, has resulted in the formation of read/write communities of varying size and influence.}, author = {Menchen}, citeulike-article-id = {2966252}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://blog.erickamenchen.net/2005/06/28/blogger-motivations-power-pull-and-positve-feedback/}, comment = {Blogger Motivations: Power, Pull, and Positive Feedback}, keywords = {comments, file-import-08-07-05, genre, internet, interview, lifelogs, motivation-psychology, negative-consequences, privacy, theory, weblogs}, pdf = {internal-pdf://Menchen trevino Blogger Motivations-0718535936/Menchen trevino Blogger Motivations.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-07-05 15:28:11}, priority = {0}, title = {Blogger Motivations: Power, Pull, and Positive Feedback}, url = {http://blog.erickamenchen.net/2005/06/28/blogger-motivations-power-pull-and-positve-feedback/} }

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