- Link:
- http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?107_elpub2007
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- Subject
- blogs; weblogs
- Creator:
- Pedersen, Sarah
- Type
- normal paper
- Language
- en
- Source
- ELPUB2007. Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna, Austria 13-15 June
2007 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Bob Martens. ISBN 978-3-85437-292-9, 2007, pp. 361-370
- Description
- This paper describes the results of an
investigation into the differences and similarities between the
blogging techniques of UK and US bloggers undertaken in the winter
and spring of 2006-7 and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities
Research Council. Blogging started in the US, while British
bloggers are relative latecomers to the blogosphere. How has this
late arrival impacted on the ways in which Britons blog in
comparison to US bloggers? A survey was administered to 60 UK and
60 US bloggers and data was also collected directly from their
blogs and by means of online tools. A blog was also set up in order
to discuss the findings of the research within the blogosphere.
Since blogging started in the US, the majority of research into
blogging so far has focused on the US and it is suggested that this
focus has resulted in all bloggers being defined through the US
experience. The findings of this project suggest that bloggers
outside the US may have different approaches to blogging and find
different satisfactions. It also suggests a new financial
motivation for blogging, which had not previously been identified,
and which may be an indication of the way in which the blogosphere
is evolving.
- Source
- ELPUB2007. Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness,
Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International
Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna, Austria 13-15
June 2007 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Bob Martens. ISBN
978-3-85437-292-9, 2007, pp. 361-370
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