Blogs can be deemed as an alternative digital media which have been strategically employed for business communication. One of the realizations is product blogs. As startups, are identically linked to media, skyrocketing in number, blogs play integral role accommodate their In writing article blogs, startups often open internship vacancy for, among others, polytechnic students majoring English H...

We examine the problem of identifying, measuring and evaluating communities in blogs. In our approach, we use sense of community (McMillan and Chavis, 1986) and centrality measures derived from social network analysis. We then describe a method for identifying communities in blogs using both sense of community measurement and Social Network Analysis (SNA). We apply this framework to a blog on C...

In this study we present an analysis of the lexical quality of social media in the Web, focusing on the Web 2.0, social networks, blogs and micro-blogs, multimedia and opinions. We find that blogs and social networks are the main players and also the main contributors to the bad lexical quality of the Web. We also compare our results with the rest of the Web finding that in general social media...

Many educators have attempted to implement a blog in educational contexts to enhance the communication environment among students and teachers. However, it is uncertain as to why traditional computer-mediated communication (CMC) applications should be replaced with blogs. It is time to comprehensively explore the effects of educational blogs by considering the CMC tools. This paper reviews prio...

S cientific discovery occurs in the lab one experiment at a time, but science itself moves forward based on a series of ongoing conversations, from a Nobel Prize winner's acceptance speech to collegial chats at a pub. When these conversations flow into the mainstream, they nurture the development of an informed public who understand the value of funding basic research and making evidence-based ...

This study aims to determine how the digital privacy of child is addressed based on content shared by parents parent blogs in Turkey. Today, share about their daily parenting practices and development children communication media. The fact that majority makes it a necessity think child. In this context, are important they texts through which mothers fathers convey relationship with roles reader...

Faceted blog distillation aims at finding blogs with recurring interest to a topic while satisfying a specific facet of interest. In this paper we focus on the personal facet and propose a method that uses opinion features as indicators of personal content. Experimental results on TREC BLOG08 data-set confirm our intuition that personal blogs are more opinionated.

Web logs, or blogs, challenge the notion of authorship. Seemingly, rather than a model in which the author’s writings are themselves a contribution, the blog author weaves a tapestry of links, quotations, and references amongst generated content. In this paper, I present a study of the role of the author plays in the construction of topical blogs, in particular focusing on how blog authors make...