Blogging has often been described as writing an online diary but, nowadays, it is more diverse and a considerable amount of blogs forms a common interconnected resource – the blogosphere – with comprehensive societal impact. While various studies have inquired social-psychological influences on the intention to contribute to an individual blog, the perceptions related to creating such a common ...

This work describes a qualitative research, still in progress, about blogging. This experience is fully linked to the concept of "social presence": users feel "to be there" in the virtual environment. From a brief review of researches about blogging, we propose a work that, through a semi-structured interview (submitted on line), could analyze the mental representations of bloggers. Moreover, w...

Blogging in the classroom is not a new idea, but my students have tended to view the blogging assignment negatively, as a homework assignment that simply needed to be done each week and then forgotten until the next time they were required to visit the blog. With that in mind, I decided to employ a very different method of educational blogging—using the Tumblr platform—in which each student wou...

Blogging is usually associated with the posting of informal texts, but academic blogs have also become quite popular as they facilitate exchange ideas in many fields study. This paper explores scope blogging making tertiary level students more aware a few important aspects writing. The two objectives this were to determine whether can i) enable understand and practice mechanics writing, ii) mot...

The 21st century has seen revolutionary changes in online communication. Many information centers, educational institutions and business organizations are using Web logs along with other forms of communication to enhance their services. This chapter will explain corporate blogs, both its benefits and risks. It will explain with examples why blogs are important to organizations in terms of knowl...

The evolution of Internet offers new tools allowing ordinary people to become content creators. One of the latest popular tools is the Internet-based blog. Few previous studies explored and examined user motivations of blogging. In this study, expectancy theory is applied to construct a conceptual framework as well as a measurable model on bloggers’ motivation to blogging. Expert interviews and...

The functions and possibilities afforded by blogging have been suggested to be relevant to learning and information management. Its increasing use in the business and education sectors is documented, but currently its use in professional education or internship is limited. The social nature of blogging appears to support the applicability of blogs to facilitate learning and communication betwee...

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of integrating a learner-centered blogging approach into the EFL writing classroom in Taiwan. For this purpose, a 16-week experiment was conducted, involving an intact class of 18 university-level Taiwanese EFL student writers. During the experiment, the participants first created their own blogs on Lang-8, a free online language blogging platfor...

11 Chapter 1: Introduction 13 1.1. Motivations for investigating blogs in academia and research 15 1.2. Methods and findings of this research project 20 1.3. The dissertation outline 23 Chapter 2: A review of blogging and blogging practices in higher education 27 2.