Why we blog

Authors:
Bonnie A. Nardi;Diane J. Schiano;Michelle Gumbrecht;Luke Swartz
Affiliations:
School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine;Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Computer Science Department and Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
Year:
2004

Citing 5
Cited 139

The first noble truth of CyberSpace: people are people (even when they MOO)

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing the Internet for a networked society

Communications of the ACM - The Adaptive Web
What is chat doing in the workplace?

CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 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
Beyond Bandwidth: Dimensions of Connection in Interpersonal Communication

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Blog to Support Learning in the Field: Lessons Learned from a Fiasco

ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
What the geeks know: hypertext and the problem of literacy

Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Information fragments for a pervasive world

Proceedings of the 23rd annual international conference on Design of communication: documenting & designing for pervasive information
FrameDrops: a mobile VideoBlog for workgroups and virtual communities

GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
From the personal to the profound: understanding the blog life cycle

CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
When opinion leaders blog: new forms of citizen interaction

dg.o '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research
A social hypertext model for finding community in blogs

Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Weblog success: Exploring the role of technology

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Human-computer interaction research in the managemant information systems discipline
Mining communities and their relationships in blogs: A study of online hate groups

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Factors influencing Internet users' perceived credibility of news-related blogs in Taiwan

Telematics and Informatics
History places: A case study for relational database and information retrieval system design

Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)
Transient life: collecting and sharing personal information

OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
Understanding member motivation for contributing to different types of virtual communities: a proposed framework

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
Conversation votes: enabling anonymous cues

CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
BlogCentral: the role of internal blogs at work

CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Opinion search in web logs

ADC '07 Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Australasian database - Volume 63
GameLog: fostering reflective gameplaying for learning

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Video games
SMSBlogging: blog-on-the-street public art project

Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
Sunrise: towards location based clustering for assisted photo management

Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Tagging, mining and retrieval of human related activity information
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities

Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
Can blogs empower women?: designing agency-enhancing and community-building interfaces

CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Identifying communities in blogs: roles for social network analysis and survey instruments

International Journal of Web Based Communities
Organisation and employee congruence: a framework for assessing the success of organisational blogs

International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Investigating the influence of employee blogging on IT workers' organisational citizenship behaviour

International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Current usage of organisational blogs in the public sector

International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Deliberation in the wild: a visualization tool for blog discovery and citizen-to-citizen participation

dg.o '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research
Using corpus analysis to inform research into opinion detection in blogs

AusDM '07 Proceedings of the sixth Australasian conference on Data mining and analytics - Volume 70
Information flows and social capital in weblogs: a case study in the Brazilian blogosphere

Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
The phenomenon of blogs and theoretical model of blog use in educational contexts

Computers & Education
Automatic and interactive e-Learning auxiliary material generation utilizing particle swarm optimization

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Point-to-GeoBlog: gestures and sensors to support user generated content creation

Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Governing at a distance - politicians in the blogosphere

Information Polity - Political Blogs and Representative Democracy
Avatars in social media: Balancing accuracy, playfulness and embodied messages

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Personal location based services on place-enhanced blog

MM '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Asymmetry in media spaces

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A meta-process for information security risk management

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
Linguistic politeness and face-work in computer mediated communication, Part 2: An application of the theoretical framework

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Social grid platform for collaborative online learning on blogosphere: A case study of eLearning@BlogGrid

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Me, myself and I: The role of interactional context on self-presentation through avatars

Computers in Human Behavior
Location-Aware Reminders with Personal Life Content on Place-Enhanced Blogs

W2GIS '08 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Identity, sense of community and connectedness in a community of mobile language learners

ReCALL
Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community

Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis
Blogs, reflective practice and student-centered learning

BCS-HCI '07 Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2
Understanding the factors affecting online elderly user's participation in video UCC services

Computers in Human Behavior
Exploring technologies for building collaborative learning communities among diverse student populations

ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Towards a knowledge-sharing approach for Information Security Risk Management

Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
Using blogs to support participative learning in university courses

International Journal of Web Based Communities
Discourse behind the Forbidden Realm: Internet surveillance and its implications on China's blogosphere

Telematics and Informatics
Understanding and Facilitating Student Bloggers: Towards a Blogging Activity Model

ICWL '009 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Web Based Learning
Developing a collective intelligence application for special education

Decision Support Systems
Mining communities in networks: a solution for consistency and its evaluation

Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Effective annotation and search for video blogs with integration of context and content analysis

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Special issue on integration of context and content
Chaos Theory as a Lens for Interpreting Blogging

Journal of Management Information Systems
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
See the apple of my eye: baby storytelling in social space

Proceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology
Understanding the continuous self-disclosure of bloggers from the cost-benefit perspective

HSI'09 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Human System Interactions
Utilizing Social Relationships for Blog Popularity Mining

AIRS '09 Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium on Information Retrieval Technology
Web opinions analysis with scalable distance-basedclustering

ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Vlogging: A survey of videoblogging technology on the web

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Lessons learned from blog muse: audience-based inspiration for bloggers

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Aspiring for a virtual life

HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction platforms and techniques
A study on content and management style of corporate blogs

OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
Ludoliteracy: defining understanding and supporting games education

Ludoliteracy: defining understanding and supporting games education
Using blogging to enhance the initiation of students into academic research

Computers & Education
Birds of a feather: How personality influences blog writing and reading

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Personal journal bloggers: Profiles of disclosiveness

Computers in Human Behavior
From home to school and back again: intersecting trajectories of identification in a student's development as a writer

ICLS '10 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 2
From Gettysburg to the Cuban Missile Crisis: designing for historical reenactments with Twitter

ICLS '10 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 2
Rise of the expert amateur: DIY projects, communities, and cultures

Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
On the relationship between novelty and popularity of user-generated content

CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Blog2Book: transforming blogs into photo books employing aesthetic principles

Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Towards a framework for educational affordances of blogs

Computers & Education
Blog-supported scientific communication: An exploratory analysis based on social hyperlinks in a Chinese blog community

Journal of Information Science
The efficient virtual learning environment: A case study of web 2.0 tools and Windows live spaces

Computers & Education
The correlation between Wikipedia and knowledge sharing on job performance

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Social media futures: why iSchools should care

Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Learning flow management and semantic data exchange between blog-based personal learning environments

USAB'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on HCI in work and learning, life and leisure: workgroup human-computer interaction and usability engineering
Enterprise blogging in a global context: comparing Chinese and American practices

Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Network properties and social sharing of emotions in social awareness streams

Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Improving communication and social support for caregivers of high-risk infants through mobile technologies

Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Bloggers and Readers Blogging Together: Collaborative Co-creation of Political Blogs

Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Understanding the impact of bloggers' self-disclosure on resilience

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
Our place or mine? exploration into collectivism-focused persuasive technology design

PERSUASIVE'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Persuasive technology for human well-being
A Random Digit Search (RDS) Method for Sampling of Blogs and Other User-Generated Content

Social Science Computer Review
Interpreting user-generated content: what makes a blog believeable?

OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
Impact of blog design features on blogging satisfaction: an impression management perspective

OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
The change in user and IT dynamics: Blogs as IT-enabled virtual self-presentation

Computers in Human Behavior
Simulating learning networks in a higher education blogosphere: at scale

EC-TEL'11 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Technology enhanced learning: towards ubiquitous learning
Why do women write personal blogs? Satisfying needs for self-disclosure and affiliation tell part of the story

Computers in Human Behavior
Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective

International Journal of Electronic Commerce
BlogGrid: towards an efficient information pushing service on blogspace

GCC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing
Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation Across Gender

Journal of Management Information Systems
Of joy and gender: emotional expression in online social networks

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
A blog considered from the perspectives of social practice theory

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Your space or mine?: community management and user participation in a chinese corporate blogging community

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Tagsocratic: learning shared concepts on the blogosphere

INTETAIN'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
Comparison of mobile-blogging acceptance between Indonesia and Taiwan

International Journal of Mobile Communications
Blogs in american academic libraries: an overview of their present status and possible future use

WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
Collaborative user tracking for community organization on blogosphere: a case study of eLearning@BlogGrid

WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
Personalized information delivering service in blog-like digital libraries

ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Exploring the factors associated with weblog usage acceptance: evidence from Cyprus

International Journal of Web Based Communities
Acceptance of blog technology in E-business course

E-ACTIVITIES'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on E-Activities
Social desirability bias and self-reports of motivation: a study of amazon mechanical turk in the US and India

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cooking together: a digital ethnography

CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social community based blog search framework

DASFAA'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
New learning network paradigms: Communities of objectives, crowdsourcing, wikis and open source

International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The Network Structure of the Korean Blogosphere

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Prompting authentic blogging practice in an online graduate course

Computers & Education
A dynamic longitudinal examination of social media use, needs, and gratifications among college students

Computers in Human Behavior
Post-adoption switching behavior for online service substitutes: A perspective of the push-pull-mooring framework

Computers in Human Behavior
On the Relationship between Novelty and Popularity of User-Generated Content

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Blog, Blogger, and the Firm: Can Negative Employee Posts Lead to Positive Outcomes?

Information Systems Research
Information Retrieval on the Blogosphere

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Does Blogging Empower Women? Exploring the Role of Agency and Community

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
A hybrid system for online detection of emotional distress

PAISI'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Pacific Asia conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: The Relation Between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth

Information Systems Research
Effective tool support for architectural knowledge sharing

ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
Beyond Recommendations: Local Review Web Sites and Their Impact

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Exploring casual point-and-tilt interactions for mobile geo-blogging

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Revealing Student Blogging Activities Using RSS Feeds and LMS Logs

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies
Quality assessment of user comments on mobile platforms considering channel of activation and platform design

SocInfo'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Informatics
Jumping the Border in the Blogosphere?: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study on the Motives of American, Russian, and German Bloggers for Writing and Commenting

International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies
Caring for caregivers: designing for integrality

Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Organisational Blogging: The Problem of Engagement

International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments
Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissism

Computers in Human Behavior
Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation Across Gender

Journal of Management Information Systems
Understanding promotions in a case study of student blogging

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
Using a combined AHP and PLS path modelling on blog site evaluation in Taiwan

Computers in Human Behavior
Mediated disclosure on Twitter: The roles of gender and identity in boundary impermeability, valence, disclosure, and stage

Computers in Human Behavior
Health vlogger-viewer interaction in chronic illness management

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Business intelligence in blogs: understanding consumer interactions and communities

MIS Quarterly
Social media on the job: an exploration of the potential legal consequences of employees' social media activities during the course of employment

Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference
Use of blogs in pre-service teacher education to improve student engagement

Computers & Education
Internal and external influences on social networking site usage in Thailand

Computers in Human Behavior
Social media in the product development process of the automotive industry: a new approach

HCI'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-Computer Interaction: users and contexts of use - Volume Part III
E-impression dimensions

Multimedia Tools and Applications
Talking about technology: the emergence of a new actor category through new media

MIS Quarterly
Differential influence of blogs across different stages of decision making: the case of venture capitalists

MIS Quarterly

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Bloggers are driven to document their lives, provide commentary and opinions, express deeply felt emotions, articulate ideas through writing, and form and maintain community forums.