The blog is one of the most familiar social media to Web users. Its social nature suggests that blogging is not only about writing and publishing bloggers’ experience and thoughts, but also about establishing social relationships and networks with others through various links including citations, blogrolls, comments, and trackbacks. We have a particular interest in comments, and develop a comme...

In the past decade, blogging web sites have become more sophisticated and influential than ever. Much of this sophistication and influence follows from their network organization. Blogging social networks (BSNs) allow individual bloggers to form contact lists, subscribe to other blogs, comment on blog posts, declare interests, and participate in collective blogs. Thus, a BSN is a bimodal venue,...

With the proliferation of Weblogs (blogs) use in university educational contexts, developing a better understanding of university students’ knowledge sharing behavior through blogging has become an important topic for practitioners and academics. While perceived enjoyment has been found to have a significant influence on behavioral intentions to use blogs or hedonic systems, few studies have in...

This study explores the experiences of a group of Taiwanese ESL student writers on a course of study that used a blog-assisted language learning (BALL) methodology. Data from in-depth interviews with eight participants were studied qualitatively using a phenomenological method of analysis. Participants’ blogging activities were found to be inhibited by low L2 proficiency levels, by feelings of ...

In this paper we represent one specific instantiation of contextualised mobile social software for learning called contextualised blogging. Contextualised blogging combines the community aspects and flexible content access of a mobile blog with the adaptation to real-world settings made possible by contextualised computing. By combining both social and physical context information, we aim to im...

Emerging technologies have some potential for improving citizen-to-citizen and citizento-government interaction. For example, podcasting, RSS, and blogs provide opportunities for citizens to obtain detailed information from each other or from government sources, to engage in online discussion, and to offer feedback to government on issues of concern. This kind of exchange is especially effectiv...

We apply methods from social network analysis and visualization to facilitate a study of the Irish blogosphere from a cultural studies perspective. We focus on solving the practical issues that arise when the goal is to perform textual analysis of the corpus produced by a network of bloggers. Previous studies into blogging networks have noted difficulties arising when trying to identify the ext...

In questo articolo si propone un’analisi dell’italiano scritto usato per la divulgazione scientifica sulle piattaforme dei social network. L’obiettivo è descrivere il suo uso, verificando se e quali fenomeni tipici della scrittura online siano presenti. I risultati mostrano che lingua usata dai divulgatori su network come Facebook, Instagram Twitter presenta sia tratti propri del blogging micro...