Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 4 - Volume 4
Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
Cultural differences in the use of instant messaging in Asia and North America
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
BlogCentral: the role of internal blogs at work
CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Crossing Boundaries: A Case Study of Employee Blogging
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Corporate Blogging: Building community through persistent digital talk
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cultural difference and adaptation of communication styles in computer-mediated group brainstorming
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Comparing Chinese and German blogs
Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Chinese online communities: balancing managementcontrol and individual autonomy
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Characterizing global participation in an enterprise SNS
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration
Smarter social collaboration at IBM research
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Exploring friend's influence in cultures in Twitter
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
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We present three studies that compare adoption and appropriation between China and the United States of BlogCentral, an internal blogging tool employed by a large global enterprise. We first analyzed 23 months of usage logs for users in both countries and found that compared to the U.S., Chinese users were much less active, with less activity and sparser user interaction. We then conducted 25 interviews and surveyed 213 bloggers in both countries to understand user motivations and behaviors of corporate blogging in more detail. The results show that Chinese employees use internal blogs for organizing personal work and short term team formation, unlike U.S. users who are driven more by the goal of sharing information to a broad community. The Chinese users were seeking (and not finding) greater social interaction and felt instead a sense of alienation from the global blogging community. We further identify a gap between Chinese users' requirement for local community and the existing global aspect of enterprise blogging tools. Lastly we discuss implications from the data analysis.