Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging Export

@article{3434, abstract = {Within the last decade, blogs have become an important element of popular culture, mass media, and the daily lives of countless Internet users. Despite the medium's interactive nature, most research on blogs focuses on either the blog itself or the blogger, rarely if at all focusing on the reader's impact. In order to gain a better understanding of the social practice of blogging, we must take into account the role, contributions, and significance of the reader. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of blog readers, including common blog reading practices, some of the dimensions along which reading practices vary, relationships between identity presentation and perception, the interpretation of temporality, and the ways in which readers feel that they are a part of the blogs they read. It also describes similarities to, and discrepancies with, previous work, and suggests a number of directions and implications for future work on blogging.}, author = {Baumer, Eric and Sueyoshi, Mark and Tomlinson, Bill}, citeulike-article-id = {2966353}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357228}, doi = {10.1145/1357054.1357228}, keywords = {file-import-08-07-05, reading, weblog, weblogs}, location = {Florence, Italy}, pdf = {internal-pdf://p1111-baumer-0085520641/p1111-baumer.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-07-05 15:28:19}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, title = {Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357228}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - 3434 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2966353 N2 - Within the last decade, blogs have become an important element of popular culture, mass media, and the daily lives of countless Internet users. Despite the medium's interactive nature, most research on blogs focuses on either the blog itself or the blogger, rarely if at all focusing on the reader's impact. In order to gain a better understanding of the social practice of blogging, we must take into account the role, contributions, and significance of the reader. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of blog readers, including common blog reading practices, some of the dimensions along which reading practices vary, relationships between identity presentation and perception, the interpretation of temporality, and the ways in which readers feel that they are a part of the blogs they read. It also describes similarities to, and discrepancies with, previous work, and suggests a number of directions and implications for future work on blogging. CY - Florence, Italy SE - Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems TI - Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging PB - ACM KW - file-import-08-07-05 KW - reading KW - weblog KW - weblogs AU - Baumer, Eric AU - Sueyoshi, Mark AU - Tomlinson, Bill PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357228 ER -