The Psychology of Blogging

You, Me, and Everyone in Between

Bibliographic Data

ID3759545
AuthorsLaura J Gurak (University of Minnesota, St. Paul), Smiljana Antonijevic (0000-0003-0383-4919)
Year2008
Volume52
Issue1
Pages60-68
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764208321341
OpenAlexW2167199504
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited3

The phenomenon and practice of blogging offers a rich environment from which to look at the psychology of the Internet. By using blogging as a lens, researchers can see that many predictions and findings of early Internet research on social and psychological features of computer-mediated communication have held true, whereas others are not as true, and that the psychology of the Internet is very much a sense of the one and the many, the individual and the collective, the personal and the political. Blogs illustrate the fusion of key elements of human desire-to express one's identity, create community, structure one's past and present experiences-with the main technological features of 21st century digital communication. Blogs can serve as a lens to observe the way in which people currently use digital technologies and, in return, transform some of the traditional cultural norms-such as those between the public and the private

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Internet privacy · Key (lock) · Lens (geology) · Media studies · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · Through-the-lens metering · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Engineering · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Team Dynamics and Performance

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