Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging
Abstract
Within the last decade, blogs have become an important element of popular culture, mass media, and the daily lives of countless Internet users. Despite the medium's interactive nature, most research on blogs focuses on either the blog itself or the blogger, rarely if at all focusing on the reader's impact. In order to gain a better understanding of the social practice of blogging, we must take into account the role, contributions, and significance of the reader. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of blog readers, including common blog reading practices, some of the dimensions along which reading practices vary, relationships between identity presentation and perception, the interpretation of temporality, and the ways in which readers feel that they are a part of the blogs they read. It also describes similarities to, and discrepancies with, previous work, and suggests a number of directions and implications for future work on blogging.
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Media use in the context of UGM is different from traditional media use and even Internet use in general because UGM involves content creation and audience participation.
“Besides, we echo past research (e.g: [72] [73] [23] ) that claim media use in the context of UGM is different from traditional media use and even Internet use in general because UGM involves content creation and audience participation.”
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“current trends in HCI, such as embodied interaction [5].”
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“g: [72] [73] [23] ) that claim media use in the context of UGM is different from traditional media use and even Internet use in general because UGM involves content creation and audience participation.”
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- Authors
- Baumer, E., Sueyoshi, M., & Tomlinson, B.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2008-04-06
- Pages
- 1111-1120
- OpenAlex
- W2103371713
- Cited by
- 97
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 6.94
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Keywords
- blogging, blog readers, reading practices, reader identity, identity presentation, temporality, reader participation
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