Bridging the gap: a genre analysis of Weblogs

By Susan C. Herring, L. A. Scheidt, Sabrina Bonus, Elijah Wright. 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the, 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Human-Computer Interaction

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The Social Dimension of Blogging about Health: Health Blogging, Social Support, and Well-being (2011, background): “The development and widespread diffusion of new communication technologies made possible by the Internet has had several noteworthy implications for health communication.”
Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm (2009, methodology): “and which blur the boundary between static HTML web pages and interactive discussion forums ( Herring, Scheidt, et al., 2004, 2005 ).”
The Transformation of the Web: How Emerging Communities Shape the Information we Consume (2006, background): “Critics, however, claim that they are essentially nothing new (e.g., [Herring et al. 2004]).”
Weblogs, traditional sources online and political participation: an assessment of how the internet is changing the political environment (2009, background): “Initial research on this topic has privileged blogs as forms of self-expression and self-presentation (Herring et al., 2004; Trammell and Keshelashvili, 2005); however, blogs are portrayed increasingly as community forums (Nardi et al., 2004), political outlets (Kerbel and Bloom, 2005; Sweetser and…”
Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs (2007, background): “Blogs serve different purposes (Hartelius, 2005; Herring et al., 2004) and therefore have different target audiences.”
Widespread Worry and the Stock Market (2010, background): “It seems reasonable to us that the noise will end up uniformly distributed in time.”
Why we blog (2004, background): “The modal number of comments in individually authored blogs has been found to be zero [6].”
Adventures in the blogosphere: from blog readers to blog writers (2008, background): “This request makes sense since the purpose of the majority of blogs is to express oneself (Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, & Wright, 2004 ).”
Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary? (2004, background): “[7] described the “hybrid” nature of blogs, suggesting their relationship to previous forms of communication.”
How Much Do They Think It Affects Them and Whom Do They Believe?: Comparing the Third-Person Effect and Credibility of Blogs and Traditional Media (2007, background): “For example, a number of studies look at personal blogs, which most commonly resemble the traditional diary (Herring et al., 2004; Nardi, Schiano, Gumbrecht, & Swartz, 2004; Papacharissi, 2004; Trammell, Tarkowski, Hofmokl, & Sapp, 2006).”
A Faceted Classification Scheme for Computer-Mediated Discourse (2007, background): “Blogs have been characterized as a genre of CMC (Herring et al. 2004; Miller & Shepherd 2004), although subtypes such as diary and filter blog have also been identified that manifest distinct patterns of linguistic usage (Herring & Paolillo 2006).”
User Demographics and Language in an Implicit Social Network (2012, background): “Although females, in particular teenagers, have been reported to be more likely to blog than males (Herring et al., 2004), males are predominant in our dataset.”
Organizational Blogs and the Human Voice: Relational Strategies and Relational Outcomes (2006, background): “Although the personal nature of blog entries, as defined by Merriam-Webster and found to be most common by Herring et al. (2004), has led some to question whether the term ''corporate blog'' is an oxymoron, Herring et al.'s genre analysis helps describe how corporate communication might evolve from…”