Weblogs as Autobiographical Discourse

Weblogs as a bridging genre

Assessing Weblogs as Education Portals

Education is one of the key sectors that has benefited from the continuous developments and innovations in information and communication technology (ICT). Web-based facilities now provide a medium for learning and a vehicle for information dissemination and knowledge creation (Khine, 2003). Accordingly, developments in ICTs provide opportunities for educators to expand and refine frameworks for...

Regret as autobiographical memory.

We apply an autobiographical memory framework to the study of regret. Focusing on the distinction between regrets for specific and general events we argue that the temporal profile of regret, usually explained in terms of the action-inaction distinction, is predicted by models of autobiographical memory. In two studies involving participants in their sixties we demonstrate a reminiscence bump f...

Weblogs as Market Indicators: Tracking Reactions to Issues and Events

We have an ongoing interest in the large-scale analysis of consumer-generated media, of which weblogs are currently of special concern. In this position paper, we describe how our data gathering and analysis system, called T2TM, is being used to collect weblog entries and analyze them for reactions to issues and events in the commercial and government arenas. The paper includes preliminary less...

Weblogs as instruments for reflection on action in teacher education

This study examined the use of weblogs as a means to promote student teachers’ reflective practice. The assumption that weblogs are suitable tools for supporting and stimulating reflection on action in teacher training and consequently for enhancing the students’ ability to reflect, was explored. Three groups of student teachers used weblogs during an eight-week internship for reflection on tea...