This study examines the use of blogs as a means of tourism marketing communication. Using a scenario-based approach, an on-line experiment was conducted to test whether consumers perceive corporate and personal blogs to be credible sources of information and to compare the perceived credibility of blogs to that of traditional wordof-mouth. The findings suggest that while consumers do not genera...

Academic blog sites are popular academic information exchange platforms, and they have been widely used in recent years. Blogs in those sites are often annotated with tags, and the tags can help to describe, organize and retrieve these blogs. However, it is still unknown what types of tags are frequently adopted for annotating academic blogs. In this poster, we present survey results for detect...

This paper contributes to the growing literature on how “new media” is influencing “old media” by tracking references to an extensive list of political blogs in stories run by seventeen prominent print media outlets during the last ten years. The findings presented here show that although journalists frequently use political bloggers as sources in their news coverage, they only reference certai...

This paper reports on a study of the use of blogs to support a Management Information Systems Strategy class requiring higher level thinking skills. Comparison of the use of private vs. public blogs showed that public sites were more effective in providing students with the skills to assess the potential of emerging technologies and to integrate blogs into their daily activites.

The blogosphere is a part of the World Wide Web, enhanced with several characteristics that differentiate blogs from traditional websites. The number of different authors, the multitude of user-provided tags, the inherent connectivity between blogs and bloggers, the high update rate, and the time information attached to each post are some of the features that can be exploited in various informa...

The aim of this study is to distribute relevant contents into users (or personal information spaces) by organizing context-based communities. In this paper, we propose a novel grid platform to socialize blogs by comparing the contexts extracted from online learning blogosphere. We are especially focusing on how to apply context matching process to collaborative learning process on the blogosphe...

Weblogs, or blogs have become an important new way to publish information, engage in discussions and form communities. The increasing popularity of blogs has given rise to search and analysis engines focusing on the “blogosphere”. A key requirement of such systems is to identify blogs as they crawl the Web. While this ensures that only blogs are indexed, blog search engines are also often overw...

BACKGROUND Medical blogs have emerged as new media, extending to a wider range of medical audiences, including health professionals and patients to share health-related information. However, extraction of quality health-related information from medical blogs is challenging primarily because these blogs lack systematic methods to organize their posts. Medical blogs can be categorized according t...

One of the essential characteristics of blogs is their subjectivity, which makes blogs a particularly interesting domain for research on automatic sentiment determination. In this paper, we explore the properties of two most common subgenres of blogs – personal diaries and “notebooks” – and the effects that these properties have on performance of an automatic sentiment annotation system, which ...