Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
Unwillingness-to-communicate, perceptions of the Internet and self-disclosure in ICQ
Telematics and Informatics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Understanding middle-aged women's health information seeking on the web: A theoretical approach
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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Personal journal blogs, which are primarily about bloggers' selves and inner states, are often characterized by high amounts of self-disclosure. This study employed the uses and gratifications perspective to reveal the characteristics of disclosive personal journal bloggers. Path analyses of data from an online survey revealed that the most disclosive bloggers were women who were generally disclosive in their offline lives as well. Disclosive bloggers were typically motivated to blog to archive and organize their thoughts, much as one would expect for an online diary. Target audience was a stronger predictor of disclosiveness than the potential audience. The theoretical and practical implications of study results are discussed, along with potential directions for future research.