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| A research by Stavrositu and Sundar (2008) showed that blogs can empower users, by giving them the feeling that they can contribute to improve their situation, through sense of community. | A research by Stavrositu and Sundar (2008) showed that blogs can empower users, by giving them the feeling that they can contribute to improve their situation, through sense of community. | ||
| - | Agarwal and Liu (2008) list Social networks services as follows: | + | Agarwal and Liu (2008) list [[Articles:Ibrahim#classifying_online_communities|Social networks]] services as follows: |
| * Blogosphere (e.g. [[http://www.blogger.com| Blogger]]) | * Blogosphere (e.g. [[http://www.blogger.com| Blogger]]) | ||
| * Social Friendship Networks (e.g. [[http://www.facebook.com| Facebook]]) | * Social Friendship Networks (e.g. [[http://www.facebook.com| Facebook]]) | ||
| - | * Media Sharing (Pictures e.g. [[http://www.flickr.com/| Flickr]], Videos e.g. [[http://www.youtube.com| YouTube]]) | + | * [[Articles:Asma|Media Sharing]] (Pictures e.g. [[http://www.flickr.com/| Flickr]], Videos e.g. [[http://www.youtube.com| YouTube]]) |
| * Collaborative Annotation Environment (e.g. [[http://http://www.delicious.com/|delicious]]) | * Collaborative Annotation Environment (e.g. [[http://http://www.delicious.com/|delicious]]) | ||
| - | * Wikis (e.g. [[http://www.wikipedia.com| Wikipedia]]) | + | * [[Articles:Kosta|Wikis]] (e.g. [[http://www.wikipedia.com| Wikipedia]]) |
| They also describe the difference between blogosphere and a social friendship network is that the members of the blogosphere, the bloggers, don’t have a direct connection or explicit connection between them as the members of the social friendship networks. Although, there are similarities between blogosphere and social friendship networks such as collaboration, experience exchange and the sense of community. | They also describe the difference between blogosphere and a social friendship network is that the members of the blogosphere, the bloggers, don’t have a direct connection or explicit connection between them as the members of the social friendship networks. Although, there are similarities between blogosphere and social friendship networks such as collaboration, experience exchange and the sense of community. | ||
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| A recent study by Efimova (2009) involved that a blog can provide a convenient and flexible personal management system as it serves as a simple way to create personally meaningful content and allows the author to start writing in small pieces that can be easily fitted between other activities, putting information into context and also putting irrelevant information for current goal but might be used later. The study also showed that structure of blog allow the author to organize and maintain information in a personalized way using chronological archive, categories, tagging or connecting topics through links. Another advantage, is when this information in blog and it is interesting for others, their feedbacks can enrich the author’s thinking about the topic and support the process of developing ideas overtime. | A recent study by Efimova (2009) involved that a blog can provide a convenient and flexible personal management system as it serves as a simple way to create personally meaningful content and allows the author to start writing in small pieces that can be easily fitted between other activities, putting information into context and also putting irrelevant information for current goal but might be used later. The study also showed that structure of blog allow the author to organize and maintain information in a personalized way using chronological archive, categories, tagging or connecting topics through links. Another advantage, is when this information in blog and it is interesting for others, their feedbacks can enrich the author’s thinking about the topic and support the process of developing ideas overtime. | ||
| - | ===== 5. Bloga Influence ===== | + | ===== 5. Blogs Influence ===== |
| Chin and Chignell (2006) state that influence in any community is bidirectional, which means that members of a group will be empowered to have influence in the group while at the same time the group also has influence over them. Therefore, mutual links between blogs, reciprocal links, are considered as a structure for influence. | Chin and Chignell (2006) state that influence in any community is bidirectional, which means that members of a group will be empowered to have influence in the group while at the same time the group also has influence over them. Therefore, mutual links between blogs, reciprocal links, are considered as a structure for influence. | ||
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