In this paper we aim to draw a picture of what is happening nowadays in Spanish mainstream cybermedia from the point of view of new ways of participation and, more concretely, we analyze remarkable weblogs signed by journalists and/or guests, in order to determine the author’s profile. A survey answered by 50 per cent of these bloggers let us know why the use of weblogs represents the key to me...

Kooperative Medien sind Softwaretools und Netzdienste, die sowohl synchrone und asynchrone Kommunikation unterstützen als auch den Aufbau virtueller Gemeinschaften ermöglichen. Weblogs sind vor diesem Hintergrund als eine Form web-basierter kooperativer Medien zu verstehen. Solche Medien spielen bei der Gestaltung neuer Lehrund Lernformen für die Lehre an Hochschulen eine immer stärkere Rolle. ...

In the 1980s we witnessed the dawning of the Information Age. Today, the use of information technology has become an integral part of our lives. Education is no exception. With the introduction of Web 2.0 tools such as weblogs, students are presented a new platform for interaction and exchanging ideas. A review of the literature however reveals few empirical studies examining the relationship o...

Weblogs have become a leading form of self-publication on the web. Personal weblogs are often considered to represent a person, and the links between webogs can naturally be given a social interaction. Against this background, finding a community around a given weblog—i.e., identifying a set of weblogs that forms a natural group together with the starting point, because of content or social rea...

Access to weblogs, both through commercial services and in academic studies, is usually limited to the content of the weblog posts. This overlooks an important aspect distinguishing weblogs from other web pages: the ability of weblog readers to respond to posts directly, by posting comments. In this paper we present a large-scale study of weblog comments and their relation to the posts. Using a...

Weblogs have been proposed as a highly effective means for organizations to communicate with customers, suppliers, and employees. This paper provides a conceptual model of the relationships among weblog use, intellectual capital--the cumulative knowledge resources possessed by organizations-and both radical and incremental innovative capabilities. We argue that in enabling the transfer of knowl...

This paper will present how weblogs, or web-based, chronologically-ordered, content management system, can be used as part of computer science classes. The experience consisted in having the class professor use a weblog for class-related topics, as well as anything mentioned in class that needed the complement of a hyperlink, and giving students the possibility of having their own weblogs, whic...