Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?

By Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, M. Gumbrecht. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs (2007, background): “Indeed, Nardi, Schiano, and Gumbrecht (2004) conclude that the audience drives various dimensions of blogging behavior.”
Open the Windows of Communication: Promoting Interpersonal and Group Interactions Using Blogs in Higher Education (2009, unknown): “Interpersonal interaction patterns between authors and readers in educational blogs differ from those in the global blogosphere (Duarte, Mattos, Bestavros, Almeida, & Almeida, 2006) because educational blogs are less visible, written by ordinary people mainly for the relatively small audience of a s”
How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work (2009, background): “As Nardi [20] found about blogging in general, voluntary readership allows users to check others’ updates at their own convenience, is not intrusive (no one is forced to pay attention), and no one needs to respond unless they wish to.”
Helpful Reviewers in TripAdvisor, an Online Travel Community (2011, background): “Many travel community studies fail to profile opinion leaders who influence other members' decision making ( Kim et al, 2007 ; Nardi, Schiano, & Gumbrecht, 2004 ; Wang & Fesenmaier, 2003 ; Yoo & Gretzel, 2009 ).”
The Social Dimension of Blogging about Health: Health Blogging, Social Support, and Well-being (2011, background): “An important characteristic of blogging is that it is a fundamentally social activity (Nardi et al., 2004; Stefanone & Jang, 2008).”