Background: Virtual education refers to a variety of teaching-learning methods that are implemented and supported electronically. The present study was conducted to determine the effects of group blogging on the attitude of nursing students towards virtual education.    Methods: This was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study in which all fifth-semester nursing students (n=25) w...

In this paper, we investigate the change in the online landscape of blogging in the Scandinavian context through a mixed methods approach. The literature on blogs has emphasized the necessity of learning about why and how people blog as it can help us understand how information is created and shared online (Chau & Xu, 2012). Despite the rich literature on blogs, few studies have addressed the c...

Abstract—The study examines the influence of marital status on consumers of products and services using blogs as a source of information. A pre-designed questionnaire was used to collect the primary data from the respondents (experiences). Data were collected from one hundred and eighty seven respondents residing in and around the Emirates of Sharjah and Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. The c...

Social media and micro-blogging platforms have been successful for communication and information exchange enjoying vast number of user participation. Given their millions of users, it is natural that there is a lot of interest for marketing and advertising on these platforms as attested by the introduced advertising platforms on Twitter and Facebook. In this paper, inspired by micro-blogging ad...

Purpose-To explore aspects of creating, seeking, sharing and management of information in food blogging asserious leisure. Design/methodology/approach-Participants‟ conceptualisation of food blogging and the role of information in it is interpreted through in-depth interviews and analysis of activity on the UK Food Bloggers Association website. Findings-Food blogging as a leisure pursuit result...

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to simulate development of a community oral health plan using technology-based tools at the students' disposal. The specific research questions were: Will students use the Internet to identify community oral health issues and develop solutions to address the issues? Will blogs be a good tool to discuss and engage students in conversation with each other a...

This study examines how bloggers establish and enhance the credibility of their blogs through a series of blogging practices. Based on an analysis of interviews with 22 independent bloggers who blog on a range of topics, we present audience-aware credibility as a theoretical construct. Audience-aware credibility is defined as how bloggers signal their credibility based on who they think their a...