Bridging the gap

A genre analysis of Weblogs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23345604
AutoresSusan C Herring (0000-0001-7861-5206, Indiana University Bloomington), Lois Ann Scheidt (0000-0002-9824-5916, Indiana University Bloomington), Sabrina Bonus (Indiana University Bloomington), ERIC WRIGHT (0000-0001-8963-6387, Indiana University Bloomington)
Año2004
Páginas11
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCONFERENCE
Revista37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the (CONFERENCE)
EditorialIEEE (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1109/hicss.2004.1265271
OpenAlexW2156589869
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas137
Referencias citadas17

Weblogs (blogs) - frequently modified Web pages in which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence - are the latest genre of Internet communication to attain widespread popularity, yet their characteristics have not been systematically described. This paper presents the results of a content analysis of 203 randomly-selected Weblogs, comparing the empirically observable features of the corpus with popular claims about the nature of Weblogs, and finding them to differ in a number of respects. Notably, blog authors, journalists and scholars alike exaggerate the extent to which blogs are interlinked, interactive, and oriented towards external events, and underestimate the importance of blogs as individualistic, intimate forms of self-expression. Based on the profile generated by the empirical analysis, we consider the likely antecedents of the blog genre, situate it with respect to the dominant forms of digital communication on the Internet today, and advance predictions about its long-term impacts.

Bridging (networking) · Genre analysis · Individualism · Linguistics · Political science · Popularity · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wikis in Education and Collaboration