We study the dynamics of public media attention by monitoring the content of online blogs. Social and media events can be traced by the propagation of word frequencies of related keywords. Media events are classified as exogenous – where blogging activity is triggered by an external news item – or endogenous where word frequencies build up within a blogging community without external influences...

This research-in-process study aimed to explore the factors affecting users’ satisfaction and continuance intention of micro-blogging service. Based upon summarization of the features of microblogging service and literature review on interactivity, we proposed the conceptual research model. This study proposed that user satisfaction toward micro-blogging service was positively affected by perce...

Today the World Wide Web is undergoing a subtle but profound shift to Web 2.0, to become more of a social web. The use of collaborative technologies such as blogs and social networking site (SNS) leads to instant online community in which people communicate rapidly and conveniently with each other. Moreover, there are growing interest and concern regarding the topological structure of these new...

Fashion blogging is an international subculture comprised primarily of young women who post photographs of themselves and their possessions, comment on clothes and fashion, and use self-branding techniques to promote themselves and their blogs. Drawing from ethnographic interviews with 30 participants, I examine how fashion bloggers use “authenticity” as an organizing principle to differentiate...

The growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications and social computing has fuelled many interesting phenomena surrounding these technologies. This study examines the value creating potential of blogging – one of the most popular Web 2.0 applications, from an individual blogger’s perspective. Drawing from previous research and recent practical developments, different revenue streams that bloggers c...

This case study aimed to explore Saudi EFL students’ attitudes towards learning writing by using blogging in practicing their activities and tasks. It also sought measure the effectiveness of as an effective approach enhance student’s abilities. The participants this were five students second-year undergraduate studying Department English university. had completed a skills course compulsory pro...

Higher education can use technology in the classroom to meet students where they are and reduce digital divide. Recent events with COVID-19 pandemic forced schools rely on multiple forms of underlined priority for its adoption effective use. Therefore, understanding options role that easily accessible applications play on-ground or online is an important research need. This study assessed gradu...