Weblogs

Most of us know someone who has inadvertently revealed something shameful or embarrassing online about themselves or someone else. With the growth of social media like Facebook and Twitter, we are heading towards a radically open society. In exploring this phenomenon, David R. Brake first provides an overview of the harms that can be posed by unwary social media use - not just for children but for all of us, young or old. He then draws on in-depth interviews, a range of related theories of human behaviour and a wealth of other studies to analyse why this happens. He explains in detail the social, technological and commercial influences and pressures that keep us posting what we should not and stop us fully appreciating the risks when we do so. This is an invaluable book for students, parents, policy-makers and any social media user.

The term Web 2.0 is currently on everyone's lips and the phenomena and concepts surrounding the new interactive web also present the tourism industry with new challenges. Over the past years, weblogs have become firmly established, especially on the subject of travel. For backpackers in particular-according to the authors' hypothesis-weblogs could offer an attractive alternative to traditional information media because backpackers depend on ad-hoc information along with authentic reports from other travellers due to their relatively long travel times and often spontaneously chosen stopovers. This paper examines the question of how suitable weblogs are as an alternative source of information for backpackers, the associations that exist vis-à-vis the various blog typologies and to what extent these are already being used today.

This study investigated grammatical errors in a corpus of 58 blog posts written by 58 participants through weblogs. It aimed to determine the views of students on the use of blogs in facilitating the acquisition of English writing skills, to identify, categorize, and analyze grammatical errors in students’ blog posts, and to explore students’ perceptions on the advantages of blogging as an alternative writing platform. The participants were freshman university students enrolled at a Study and Thinking Skills class at Lyceum of the Philippines University – Manila during the first semester of the academic year 2014-2015. Research data come from students’ blog posts, survey, and focus group interviews. Errors were first classified into seven major categories and then they were divided into subcategories. Results show that the most pervasive errors committed by the participants were tenses, subject-verb agreement, prepositions, morphology, articles, verbs, and pronouns. Pedagogical impl...

Learner development greatly depends on language
awareness which not only focuses on language itself, but
also a cognitive reflection upon language functions.
Language awareness can be fostered by giving learners
various choices in learning activities. The variety of
choice stimulates learner interest and has a potential for
learner development. This paper discusses the
application of the latest innovation of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), which is known as
weblog for learner language development. The aim of
this study is to explore the pedagogical potentials of
using weblog as a tool in developing the language skills
of pre-university ESL students in a university in
Malaysia. In addition, this study further discusses the
impacts weblogging activities can have on students’
motivation to write in English. Drawing on students’
blogs as well as the responses given by students in
interviews and questionnaires the paper ends by
highlighting the benefits that can be acquired as a result
of the integration weblogs in language learning
classrooms.

Recently, knowledge sharing (KS) has become an essential research field in the context of knowledge management (KM). Information systems (ISs) are playing a key role in facilitating the process of KS. According to the literature, research neglects to review studies regarding the impact of KS on ISs. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to review studies regarding the impact of KS on ISs with an advanced focus on M-learning, social media, ERP systems, and weblogs. Furthermore, the synthesis of the research problems, research methods, and findings of the surveyed studies will assist the scholars in pursuing their future studies. Further discussions and implications are also presented in the study.

Social Media have changed the way we communicate privately or professionally. So the users have to understand the structures and specific conditions, the ›logics‹ and ›ideologies‹ of these new communication frameworks, they have to learn new rhetorical skills. On the other hand the users themselves develop and transform these media permanently in a creative way, as a part of their own media culture. This paper discusses various forms and requirements of ›Social Media Rhetorics‹ between persistence and dynamics, between accomodation and innovation-especially concerning Weblogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other phenomena as e.g. so called ›memes‹.

Blogging is viewed as a tool in facilitating the development of writing skills. To ascertain such contention, this study attempted to determine the effects of blogging (weblogs) on the forty-one freshman college students" writing performance based on the results obtained from pre-test (entry essays) and posttest (exit essays) mean scores, interviews and reflections. Three classes or a total of 66 freshman college students from a top university in the Philippines, majoring in Communication Arts and Accountancy participated in the study that ran for more than three months in the first trimester of AY 2012-2013. These classes were introduced to blogging as they wrote their three essays on a computer in English classrooms with free access to the Net via school Wi-Fi. Prior to and after the treatment period, they were made to write entry and exit essays based only on one topic of their choice for an hour. However, upon completion of the study, only 41 students were able to accomplish all the instruments needed. The findings reveal that students" writing skills improved based on the results of paired samples dependent t-test of their entry and exit essays" mean scores at p<0.05 level of significance. Furthermore, three independent raters unanimously agreed that students improved on content and organization. These findings matched students" perception that blogging helped them improve their writing skills because of their peers" constructive feedback.

EN ESTE TRABAJO PRESENTO INFORMACIÓN RELEVANTE SOBRE EL APRENDIZAJE COLABORATIVO CON EL USO DE INTERNET (TICS). ESTAS HERRAMIENTAS SI LAS APLICAMOS EN EL AULA ADECUADAMENTE PERMITE LA INNOVACIÓN PEDAGÓGICA DEL DOCENTE Y UN APRENDIZAJE SIGNIFICATIVO DE LOS ESTUDIANTES.

Michael Klemms Beitrag zum Reiseblog analysiert die kommunikative Praxis, die sich aus der engen Kopplung zwischen dem Erleben und dem Erzählen von Reisen in Medienkulturen ergibt. Im Gegensatz zu früheren Reiseberichten, die im Anschluss an die Reise veröffentlicht wurden, besteht insbesondere bei Bloggern beinahe eine Synchronizität zwischen diesen Abschnitten und für das Publikum ein Gefühl des Miterlebens, wenn die Blogger ihre Reiseerfahrungen unmittelbar oder zumindest zeitnah zur Verfügung stellen. Diese Form des Erzählens stellt Michael Klemm in einen historischen Kontext, ohne sie alleine von früheren Reiseerzählformen abzuleiten. Aus den Vergleichen mit anderen literarischen, wissenschaftlichen, journalistischen oder unterhaltsamen Reisegeschichten ergibt sich vielmehr ein Analyseraster, welches für Reiseblogs angewendet wird. Die empirischen Wirklichkeitsausschnitte für seine exemplarische Analyse werden von zwei Reiseblogs gebildet. Aus diesen wird deutlich, wie sehr die Vorbereitungen als Aufmerksamkeitsmuster zunächst in die Reiseerfahrungen miteinfließen, vor allem aber, wie präsent die spätere Veröffentlichung im aktuellen Erleben ist, was bei Fotografien besonders deutlich wird. Im Gegensatz zu Reiseführern, die Tipps geben und Empfehlungen aussprechen, sind Informationen dieser Art bei Webblogs zweitrangig. Im Vordergrund steht nicht die Reise selbst, sondern die Selbsterfahrung, die Reflexion darüber, wie mit dem Gesehenen umzugehen ist und welche innere Wandlung die Reisenden erfahren. So entsteht ein Spannungsverhältnis zwischen einem inneren, höchstpersönlichen Erleben und dessen Aufmerksamkeit anziehender Darstellung – ein Verhältnis, das für das Zeitalter der neuen Medien konstitutiv ist.

This thesis presents an emerging concept called the interactional self to illustrate how, contrary to theories of “cyberspace” and “cyberselves,” there tend not to be sharp socio-phenomenological distinctions between “virtual” and offline sociability within one’s life-world. As such, using aspects of the philosophies of experience of Heidegger, Mead, Schutz, and Husserl as foundations, this thesis argues that social interactions online, for most, are extensions of and not apart from their everyday, situated life-worlds.
After briefly introducing the path towards our contemporary “will-to-virtuality” and various utopian and dystopian visions of “cyberspace,” an alternative conceptual picture of the interactional self is gradually revealed using the metaphor of a portrait painted on a “social-world canvas.” In this painting, the ontology of Heidegger’s Dasein supplies the first brushes for outlining the early sketches of the interactional self, showing that online, as in offline settings, we encounter the world and others from the position of beings deeply engaged in practical daily acts and “interpretative understandings.” These brushes are then dipped into Mead’s intertactionist colours and Schutz’s socio-phenomenological textures, eventually filling in the portrait. Illustrated via a case study of blogging practices, Mead’s theory of the “generalized other” highlights the notion that the interactional self does not concretely distinguish between offline and online social settings but instead, as in more traditional “off the network” situations, uses Internet-mediated communication for performative practices that afford self-expression and maintain social cohesion. Schutz’s phenomenology of the life-world gives further perspective to the interactional self, showing that online sociability should not be viewed as being apart from the “intersubjective” intersection of life-worlds rooted in everyday life. With some help from Husserl’s phenomenology, Schutz is subsequently relied on for understanding online textual embodiment, spatial extensions, community, role-playing, and fantasy, adding yet more socio-historical shadings to interactions online.
Ultimately, the picture that emerges is framed within the following four concluding hypotheses: 1) The interactional self encounters social acts, online and off, as part of its greater life-world, practicing performative and group-enforcing self-management through 2) varying and interlinked dimensions of sociability and 3) pragmatic yet meaningful uses of the communicational tools at hand in 4) contextually relevant degrees of self-disclosure.

SAVCI, Bilgesu. Through Storytelling in New Media: The Morphological Analysis of Vladimir Propp in Private Weblog Narratives, Master’s Thesis Ankara, 2015.
This study aims to analyse the narratives produced and published on private web blogs by using the morphological analysis method used by Vladimir Propp for classification of the Russian folktales. As one of the most commonly used new media, web blogs are the atmospheres in which people produce and share personal and independent narratives. These narratives differ from the traditional media texts not only in the context of the medium and non-traditional written language usage but also in the context of the audience. Within the scope of this study 38 different private web blog narrations were morphologically analysed in an attempt to demonstrate how these narratives are formed in a different manner from the traditional media texts. The morphological analysis method of Vladimir Propp was taken as a model for the analysis of the web blog narrations. Therefore, the morphological method adopted to the sample of the study consisted of the actions of separating the formative parts of the narratives and discovering the regularities of these parts of the narratives. As a result of the analysis, it is argued that the private web blog narratives included in this study have formational regularities as seen in the folktales which are the samples of oral narratives and this fact disambiguates the bardic nature of new media. Additionally, it is seen for the first time that the blog narratives could be analysed morphologically and the tools of classical narratology could be adopted for the analysis of new media texts as suggested in the post classical narrative theory.

Este estudo tem como objectivo descrever e interpretar a cultura emergente na sala de aula do 4º Ano de Escolaridade, no momento em que os alunos a professora e eu como investigador nos envolvemos em tarefas relacionadas com Weblogs . Deste modo, o uso desta tecnologia, no contexto pedagógico, desencadeia um conjunto de repercussões no status quo vigente, sendo possível:
- A observação e análise do processo de apropriação dos Weblogs pelos alunos;
- A análise dos artefactos resultantes dessa acção, e as implicações na construção social das aprendizagens;
- A descrição dos papéis assumidos pelos actores envolvidos durante essa acção.
Nesta investigação utilizo uma metodologia etnográfica, para explanação e confronto de subjectividades. Descrevo a realidade centrando-me primeiro na professora da sala e depois, dou a voz aos alunos, à medida que me deparo com um novo espaço de liberdade virtual, entretanto criado. O carácter inovador do projecto reside no facto deste discutir o momento a partir do qual os alunos, utilizando um espaço e um tempo para manusear as ferramentas tecnológicas, desenvolvem acções que não têm a ver directamente com o currículo, e que o amplia. O Weblog ou blog surge da vontade da professora, do interesse manifesto dos alunos quando utilizam a tecnologia disponível na sala de aula, do apoio do investigador e da comunidade escolar. Afirma-se com espaço de comunicação entre a escola e o mundo, criado e mantido pelos alunos, num claro desafio ao currículo, ampliando o espaço de actuação da escola.


Brazão, P. & Fino, C. (2008). Weblogs, aprendizagem e cultura da escola: um estudo no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Tese de Doutoramento. Funchal: Universidade da Madeira. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/127  DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.34267.92968

Academic weblogs are a new form of scholarly communication which provides both a space for researchers to present their ideas, observations, and reactions to others' work and a discussion forum. Although evaluation has been shown to play a prominent role in academic discourse, the function of this rhetorical device in academic blogs has not yet been studied. As part of an attempt to a ddress this issue, the present study is aimed at identifying the types and fre quency of evaluative adjectives in academic blogs and at analyzing their role in this genre. For this purpose, I adopt Thompson and Hunston's (2000: 5) definition of evaluation as "the expression of the speaker or writer's attitude or stance towards, a viewpoint on, or feelings about the entities or propositions that he or she is talking about." The study is based on the exploration of a corpus of weblog entries and comments taken from ten different academic blogs. The results show that evaluative adjectives are rhetorically used by par ticipants in these blogs for two purposes: (i) to construct their identity both as knowledgeable researchers and competent academic bloggers; (ii) to build and sustain solidarity relations with other members of the community and sig nal their allegiances.

Since 1979, Iranian society has been living under a triple set of standards of urf, sharia, and modernity. An important fi eld of superpo-urf, sharia, and modernity. An important fi eld of superpo-urf sition and contradiction among these standards is the gender issue and how to control women and their sexuality in the private and the public spheres. In the past two decades, gradual transgressions of urf and sharia have become a sign of modernity and resistance for many women and young people who wish to generate changes in their situation. Since 2001, the trend of willfully neglected veiling (bad-hejabi) bad-hejabi) bad-hejabi in physical space has been accompanied by the virtual unveiling of women bloggers in cyberspace. Th rough their personal narration, women bloggers transgress several sociocultural boundaries. The strategy of women in both spaces is the same: to become more visible, to speak out, and to create a new identity closer to their "inner self." F or years, the predominant image of the Islamic Republic of Iran as seen by the outside world has been that of women wrapped in their black chadors, taking part in revolutionary demonstrations. This image represents the paradox of the Islamic Republic. The veil or hijab traditionally symbolizes silence and self-concealment in public, yet these women 90  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN'S STUDIES 4:3

Adoptive parents have turned to be passionate bloggers. Couples adopting internationally are using the internet intensely to share experiences and pieces of advice in the form of autobiographical accounts of their (troubled) adoption processes. These blogs not only connect a community facing multiple difficulties but, moreover, enact the family where the blood ties are missing. This study examines how the blogs of parents adopting girls in China perform parenthood by paralleling the adoption to the biological processes of pregnancy and giving birth. These blogs illuminate life writing's 'performativity' showing how they give the parents a sense of parenthood and offer the adoptees a sense of 'daughterness'. Moreover, they reveal how the performance of the adoptive family not only serves domestic purposes but also legitimates the practice of international adoption of children, which is regarded with suspicion by the international community. The outcome of this article shall not only contribute to the debate on how life writing impacts the writer's life and the society's approach towards the adoptees, but also to the broader field of studies on how cultural texts create social relations and assist processes of identity formation.

Blogs are, like all communication technologies, two-folded: The evolution of blogs into elegant and easy-to-use and -administer sites for self-publishing and network-building has been guided as much by the technologies that undergird them as it has by the life-world needs, desires, meanings, and social practices that bloggers mediate through them. In order to understand this two-foldedness, this article draws out a social constructivist and social interactional theory of the blog and the sociality that it mediates—“the bloggy way of doing things”—and explores the ways that bloggers are immanently (re)inventing blogging technologies via their very social and self-presentational practices.

After presenting a brief history of the “blogosphere” and key debates concerning its social and political significance in Part 1 of the article, Part 2 maps out how the possibilities of a micropolitics of the blog first occurs in the very acts of bloggers “creatively appropriating” and collaboratively co-inventing the key structural aspects of blogging technologies. Part 3 uses a social interactional perspective to reassess some of the most salient blogging practices addressed in the literature to date. Having closely influenced the blog’s technological design, these practices include: experimenting with online self-presentation and self-expression, engaging in asynchronous textual conversations, exploring multimedia-based self-publishing, and extending social networks and desires for sociability onto the spaces of the life-world opened up by the virtualized, digitized, flexible, and accessible technologies of the blog.

ist ein geowissenschaftlicher Weblog. Als Ethnokategorie verweist der Ausdruck Weblog auf ein begriffliches Alltagswissen, dessen Einheit mit der Kategorie Kommunikationsform traditionell rekonstruiert wurde als medientechnisches Merkmalsbündel mit einem spezifischen Zeichenspeicherungs-, -übertragungs-und -verstärkungspotenzial. 1 Der vorliegende Beitrag bricht diese Kategorie pragmatisch/praxeologisch auf, um die institutionelle Position von geoberg.de als Kommunikationsform zu bestimmen. Dafür wird in kommunikationslinguistischer Perspektive an die Soziologie der Übersetzung angeschlossen, die im kultur-und medienwissenschaftlichen Diskurs mittlerweile breit diskutiert wird, und die die heterogenen Netzwerke nachzeichenbar macht, die die Medialisierung und Adressierung von Kommunikationen ermöglichen. Um aber die Wissenschaftsspezifik dieser Kommunikation auf geoberg.de beschreiben zu können, müssen einzelne Blogtexte in den Blick kommen und ihre musterhafte Position im institutionalisierten Forschungsprozess herausgearbeitet werden. Dies kann hier freilich nur exemplarisch geschehen. WISSEN, PRAXIS, INSTITUTION Alltägliches Wissen ist oft auf Praktiken bezogen: Es ist empraktisch. Wissenschaftliches Wissen zeichnet sich dadurch aus, diesem distanziert gegenüberzustehen: Ehlich bezeichnet dies als die »Depraxie« wissenschaftlichen Wissens, die »zur Strukturierung von Wissen und zu seiner Weiterentwicklung« befähigt. 2 Wissenschaft bringt zum Zweck dieser »Systematisierung«, »die die Empraxie als solche so nicht gewährleistet«, 3 aber eine Reihe von Praktiken hervor, die die Depraxierung des empraktischen Wissens erst ermöglicht. Wissenschaft ist daher ebenso durch ein empraktisches Wissen 4 bestimmt, das methodisches und kommunikatives Wissen umfasst. 5 Beides ist durch die Universität als Institution von Forschung und Lehre geprägt. 6

ABSTRACT: The use of weblog to improve students’ ability in writing has been proved by previous studies, especially in writing narrative and descriptive texts, since it provides features to write. However, in terms of the nature and features of weblog, it is closer to the structure of recount text than other text types. This study aimed to know the effectiveness of using weblog to improve students’ ability in writing recount texts. This study used quasi-experiment method and conducting the pre and posttest to the experimental and control groups. The data were analyzed using ANCOVA and the result showed that the significant difference of both scores was at .004 less than significant difference .05 which meant that the null hypothesis was rejected. Therefore, weblog was effective to improve students’ ability in writing recount texts.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Weblog, Students’ Ability, Writing, Recount Text

This thesis examines the understandings and meanings of personal blogging from the perspective of blog authors. The theoretical framework draws on a symbolic interactionist perspective, focusing on how meaning is constructed through blogging practices, supplemented by theories of mediation and critical technology studies. The principal evidence in this study is derived from an analysis of in-depth interviews with bloggers selected to maximise their diversity based on the results of an initial survey. This is supplemented by an analysis of personal blogging’s technical contexts and of various societal influences that appear to influence blogging practices.

Bloggers were found to have limited interest in gathering information about their readers, appearing to rely instead on an assumption that readers are sympathetic. Although personal blogging practices have been framed as being a form of radically free expression, they were also shown to be subject to potential biases including social norms and the technical characteristics of blogging services. Blogs provide a persistent record of a blogger’s practice, but the bloggers in this study did not generally read their archives or expect others to do so, nor did they retrospectively edit their archives to maintain a consistent self-presentation.

The empirical results provide a basis for developing a theoretical perspective to account for blogging practices. This emphasises firstly that a blogger’s construction of the meaning of their practice can be based as much on an imagined and desired social context as it is on an informed and reflexive understanding of the communicative situation. Secondly, blogging practices include a variety of envisaged audience relationships, and some blogging practices are essentially self-directed with potential audiences playing a marginal role. Blogging’s technical characteristics and the social norms surrounding blogging practices appear to enable and reinforce this unanticipated lack of engagement with audiences. This perspective contrasts with studies of computer mediated communication that suggest bloggers would monitor their audiences and present themselves strategically to ensure interactions are successful in their terms. The study also points the way towards several avenues for further research including a more in-depth consideration of the neglected structural factors (both social and technical) which potentially influence blogging practices, and an examination of social network site use practices using a similar analytical approach.

Weblogs are one of fundamental components of Web 2.0 and there are a lot of unskilled bloggers and visitors who have difficulties in finding relevant blogs. Recommender systems are a solution to the information overload problems. In this paper a weblog recommender system based on link structure of weblog graph is introduced. Here we treat links between weblogs as some kind of rating, meaning that if there is a hyperlink from weblog A pointing to weblog B then blogger A prefers weblog B. Based on this assumption we have adapted almost all of famous recommendation techniques for Blogsphere. The methods are implemented on a real dataset and experiments show promising results.

Os weblogs e outras ferramentas de software social (como as redes sociais virtuais) e de autogestão de conteúdos (como os wikis e os agregadores) estão contribuindo, de maneira decisiva, para a transformação da World Wide Web na World Live Web: a zona mais dinâmica, original, interessante e viva da rede. Nós, usuários da rede, estamos descobrindo que os meios somos nós mesmos.

This article examines the understandings and meanings of personal information sharing online using a predominantly symbolic interactionist analytic perspective and focusing on writers’ conceptions of their relationships with their audiences. It draws on an analysis of in-depth interviews with 23 personal bloggers. They were found to have limited interest in gathering information about their audiences, appearing to assume that readers are sympathetic. A comprehensive and grounded typology of imagined relationships with audiences was devised. Although their blogs were all public, some interviewees appeared to frame their blogging practice as primarily self-directed, with their potential audiences playing a marginal role. These factors provide one explanation for some forms of potentially risky self-exposure observed among social media users.

Schreiben als eine Praktik der Gesundung, im Sinne einer Bewältigung, ist nicht nur in Texten von Schriftsteller*innen zu finden, sondern auch vermehrt in semi-literarischen Gebrauchsgenres wie Personal Blogs. Diese Verknüpfung von Schreiben und Bewältigung zeigt sich vor allem in Mental Health Blogs, in denen überwiegend depressive Erkrankungen verhandelt werden. Der vorliegende Beitrag arbeitet heraus, inwieweit dem Bloggen auch hier eine Bewältigungsfunktion zukommt und Schreiben zu einem Versuch wird, sich gesundzuschreiben. Dabei steht einerseits das Verhandeln von Gesundheitskonzepten, andererseits die Verknüpfung von Gesundheit und Schreiben im Vordergrund. Die leitenden Fragen sind, welche Diskurse von (psychischer) Gesundheit und welche Praktiken des Umgangs mit Mental Health die Blogs aufweisen. Der Aufsatz stellt die Gesundung durch Erzählen als eine mögliche Form des Erzählens von Gesundheit in den Fokus. Der Blick liegt damit auf den narrativ-performativen Praktiken von Gesundheit, also darauf, wie Gesundheit in den Mental Health Blogs durch das Erzählen performativ hervorgebracht wird. In dieser Auseinandersetzung möchte der vorliegende Aufsatz einen Beitrag zur Erforschung von Gesundheitsdarstellungen und -verhandlungen in Depressionsnarrativen sowie zu der Verknüpfung von Narratologie, Medical Humanities und praxeologischer Subjekttheorie liefern.

This paper employs social network analysis to explain variation in the pricing of 846 banner advertisements appearing in a community formed by eighty-nine “liberal” and eighty-four “conservative” Weblogs. As predicted, Weblogs that bridge “structural holes” between otherwise disconnected segments of the community command significantly higher prices for their advertisements.

Öz: Gündelik yaşamın tecrübi bilgisinin paylaşılmasında dijitalleşmeyle birlikte oldukça sık başvurulur hâle gelen araçlardan biri; moda, güzellik, kişisel gelişim, eğitim ve edebiyat gibi farklı temalar altında toplanabilecek olan web günlükleridir (weblogs/blogs). Bu günlükler içimizden birinin gündelik yaşamı nasıl deneyimlediğinin; neyi, nasıl yaptığının ve hangi konularda nasıl düşündüğünün görünür olmasını sağlamakta ancak bunları sağlamakla sınırlı kalmamaktadır. Web günlüklerinde üretilen bilgi, aynı zamanda gündeliği yeniden üretmektedir. Toplumsal cinsiyete göre farklılaşan bu üretim, kadınlar özelinde, bir yandan kadınlığa ilişkin görünür olması arzu edilen tecrübelerin aktarılmasına yararken diğer yandan bu alandaki mitsel kabulleri pekiştirebilmektedir. Buradan hareketle bu çalışma kapsamında; Türkçe içeriğe sahip, mutfak temalı web günlüklerinden biri olan Cahide Sultan'da, İslami söylem üzerinden mutfakta nasıl bir kadın kimliği inşa edildiğinin ortaya koyulması amaçlanmaktadır. Bu soruya yanıt aranmak üzere web günlüğündeki Eylül 2009 tarihli ilk girdiden (post) başlanmıştır ve Mart 2017'ye kadar yayımlanan girdiler; analiz birimi olarak belirlenerek, niteliksel içerik çözümlemesine tabii tutulmuştur. İdealize edilen mutfak, helal-haram ikiliği ile bu ikiliği gözetmek için zaruri addedilen kadınlık mahareti üzerine inşa olmaktadır ve bu yolla geleneksel kadınlık rolleri yeniden üretilmektedir. Nihayetinde makul kadın kimliği hakkındaki söz söyleme ayrıcalığı; Kur-an'ı Kerim ayetleri, hadis ve İslam tarihinden örnekler ile kadının yegâne sorumlusu addedildiği mutfağın bilgisi üzerinden tesis edilmektedir.

One of the instruments that have become so popular with digitalization in the sharing of experiential knowledge of daily life is weblogs that can be collected under different themes such as fashion, beauty, personal development, education and literature. These weblogs make visible how one of us experiences daily life, what and how he/she does and how he/she thinks about which subject but are not limited to these. The information produced in the weblogs is also reproducing the everydayness. This gender-differentiated production both helps to convey the experiences which are desired to be visible among women and can reinforce mythical assumptions, as well. From this point of view this study aims to reveal what kind of female identity is built in the kitchen through Islamic discourse in Cahide Sultan which is one of the kitchen-based weblogs. To answer this main question, the posts created between 2009 and 2017 were analyzed using a qualitative research design. The kitchen which is idealized is built on the duality of halal-haram and the femininity dexterity that is deemed necessary to conceive that duality and in this way traditional female roles are reproduced. Ultimately, the privilege of speaking about a reasonable female identity is established through verse of the Koran, the prophet Muhammad's sayings/deeds and examples from Islamic history with the knowledge of the kitchen in which women is regarded as the unique responsible.

El presente trabajo se propone dar pie a la discusión sobre un nuevo género discursivo: los weblogs o blogs. Hijos de la expansión de  Internet, llaman a la teorización sobre su entidad como género discursivo híbrido, a mitad de camino entre el diario íntimo, el periodismo, el foro  de debate y la literatura.
El punto de partida será un breve recorrido histórico que considere la aparición y el desarrollo del fenómeno, para luego hacer mención a algunos de los casos que alcanzaron mayor notoriedad, hasta (incluso o por esa misma razón) dar origen a libros editados: Abzurdah y Diario de una mujer gorda. Esto da pie a la discusión sobre su valor textual.
Por último, citaremos ciertos usos educativos que se están haciendo del blog en la actualidad, como es el caso de su inclusión en el proyecto Aula 365, a los que sumaremos algunas propuestas.

The integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into education is one of the main
approaches to fostering twenty-first century skills in teaching and learning processes. It is therefore vital to
emphasize the integration of ICT into the university-level training of pre-service teachers, in order for them to
effectively facilitate students’ learning. ICT literacy is one of the important skills that should be possessed by
twenty-first century teachers in order for them to meet the challenges of this era of information and technology.
In relation to this, it is also important that pre-service teachers gain sufficient knowledge and are able to apply it
innovatively and creatively in their teaching activities. This study aims to identify pre-service teachers’ views on
the usage of weblogs, their benefits and their preferred ways of using weblogs. The research participants were 68
pre-service teachers who were taking the GGGE2153 (Educational Technology) course. One focus of this course
is that students are required to develop creative blogs for teaching and learning based on their areas of
specialization. The elements of creativity, suitability for collaboration, user-friendliness and informativeness are
among the criteria that should be of concern to students. The findings from the administered questionnaire show
a positive impact of creating weblogs in relation to the development of twenty-first century skills.

From the French discourse analysis and, specially, the concepts proposed by Michel Pêcheux, we analyzed some clippings arranged in the weblog of a community library, that bring to us some senses on the reading and allow us to investigate how they are built in alternative social spaces and in cyberspace. This writing is part of a bigger project of researches linked to El-@dis - Discoursive Laboratory, subject, web and senses in movement, whose objective is to analyze discursively the movements of subjectsnavigators and the production of senses in the web, characterized for other conditions of production, that is to say, other configurations of time and space and an associative order to speak. Our objective is to think on the concept of discursive subject (affected by the forgetfulness and the ideology from a position), the web, the (hyper)reading and the production of senses, given by the social-historical circumstances of contemporaneity that support the
discourses associated to some regions of the discursive memory to mean.This movement updates, dislocates or returns the discourses about the reading already in circulation by other subjects, during the story and that, in the web,they enroll fractures and repetitions.

Lo que se necesita es poner el software apropiado frente a los teclados adecuados, de manera tal que la gente que ama escribir para el público y lo hace bien tenga una manera sencilla de realizarlo. Un lugar para ser escuchados. Un lugar para enseñar y aprender. Un lugar para ser poderosos y sentir el poder de otros. Dave Winer, Edit this Page, DaveNet, mayo de 1999. No soy pesimista, si no, no podría ser proyectista. Me alienta lo digital, que se abran espacios de comunicación y participación a través de la red. Y el diseñador como responsable de introducir y hacer manejable la tecnología en la vida cotidiana de las personas. Gui Bonsiepe, Una charla de diseño. Entrevista de Luján Cambariere publicada en Página 12 el 12 de noviembre de 2005.

This paper examines the understandings and meanings of personal information sharing online using a predominantly symbolic interactionist analytic perspective and focusing on writers’ conceptions of their relationships with their audiences. It draws on an analysis of in-depth interviews with 23 personal bloggers. They were found to have limited interest in gathering information about their audiences, appearing to assume that readers are sympathetic. A comprehensive and grounded typology of imagined relationships with audiences was devised. Although the blogs of those interviewed were all public, some appear to frame their blogging practice as primarily self-directed, with their potential audiences playing a marginal role. These factors provide one explanation for some forms of potentially risky self-exposure that have been observed among social media users

Las bitácoras constituyen un formato de publicación online centrado en el usuario y en los contenidos, no en la programación o el diseño gráfico. Por esta razón se han multiplicado las opciones de los usuarios de estar en la Red con contenidos propios, actualizados, sin intermediarios y de gran visibilidad para los buscadores.

In this work we will deal with some matters about the web, its structure and the movements of the subject-navigator; then, we will present some key concepts of french Discourse Analysis for later we undertake our work of analysis of the corpus, that we collected on-line and we
selected in blogs arranged in the web by subjects residents in “Complexo Maré” and by some children too, aiming to understand as child's senses are constituted, given by the memory and the production
conditions of the discourse transmitted in these blogs.

erschienen in: Media Perspektiven 11/2008.

Die besondere Rolle, die den Medien für die kritische Beobachtung anderer gesellschaftlicher Institutionen zuerkannt wird, wirft immer auch die Frage nach der Kontrolle der Kontrolleure auf. Medien-Watchblogs widmen sich dezidiert der Beobachtung der Berichterstattung ausgewählter Medien. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern Bildblog als das in Deutschland derzeit bekannteste Medien-Watchblog in den
Augen seiner Leser imstande ist, medienjournalistische Leistungen zu erbringen.
Es zeigt sich, dass die Bildblog-Nutzer einen differenzierten Eindruck von den Leistungen des Watchblogs haben. Einerseits geben sie sich keinerlei Illusionen über den Einfluss auf die kritisierten Bild-Produkte hin, andererseits kann Bildblog ihrer Auffassung nach die kritische Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber Bild verstärken.
Außerdem ist das Watchblog nach Einschätzung der Rezipienten geeignet, generell und auch bei ihnen persönlich ein stärkeres Bewusstsein für journalistische Qualität zu fördern. Dieses
Urteil der Leser über die medienjournalistische Leistungsfähigkeit von Bildblog trifft sich mit ihren Lektüremotiven, denn neben der Unterhaltung ist das Bedürfnis nach Aufklärung und Information
das wichtigste Nutzungsmotiv.
Sind Watchblog-Nutzer bereit, für diese Leistungen
zu bezahlen? Auch dieser Frage geht die Leserstudie nach.

Use of the Electronic Portfolio (ePortfolio) is rising around the world and in particular the US and UK. Two main purposes of the ePortfolio include: promotion of studentcentred learning and reflection; career planning and CV building. Weblog use has grown rapidly leading to the development of some excellent programs for keeping a daily online 'diary'. This report explores the possibility of merging weblog technology with ePortfolios, creating a platform for learning reflection.

Writing is viewed hugely important, yet it is a daunting task for both English as a second language (ESL) teachers and learners. With the development of different approaches to teaching in general, numerous approaches to the teaching of writing have been evolved such as product, process and post-process approaches. Although these approaches have changed the role and status of writing over the years, writing still appears as one of the difficult areas to tackle as students lack academic writing skills and they are de-motivated to write in English. In view of this, researchers show an interest in looking into the possibilities of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools for language teaching and learning. This paper discusses the application of the latest ICT tool, which is known as weblog as an effective tool in ESL classrooms. The aim of this study is to explore the pedagogical potentials of weblog in developing the writing skills of ESL learners. In particular, th...

Las TIC se nos presentan como un desafío pero al mismo tiempo son una oportunidad para interactuar con inteligencia, apropiarse de su complejidad e innovar consecuentemente transformando de manera significativa nuestra sociedad. Quizás por este motivo resulte imprescindible su conocimiento, utilidad y uso. El presente trabajo analiza las opiniones que en torno a los edublogs de alumnos/as de la Universidad de Granada y Jaén surgen en el marco de la asignatura NTAE y BPE para conocer posibilidades y utilidad de este recurso en red. El instrumento para la recogida de información ha sido el cuestionario con estructura mixta.
ICTs are presented as a challenge but at the same time as an opportunity to interact intelligently, managing their complexity and innovation significantly and consistently and transforming our society.Perhaps for this reason it is essential to know, value and use ICTs. This paper discusses the views on the edublogs of students at the University of Granada and Jaén which arise under the subject NTAEs and BPE in order to find the possibilities of this network resource. The instrument for data collection is the questionnaire JIAS which generate a meaningful data interpretation .

Publicar en Internet está al alcance de todos gracias a los blogs. Este medio de comunicación social está cambiando nuestra cultura y generando otra nueva: la blogosfera. Los weblogs se inscriben en una serie de redes o blogosferas, formadas por quienes se leen y enlazan de modo recíproco.
José Luis Orihuela, experto bloguero, periodista, conferencista, profesor universitario y autor del libro “La revolución de los blogs”, nos habla sobre el protagonismo de los ciudadanos en los procesos informativos, entendiendo y practicando la comunicación pública como un diálogo.

De hedendaagse pelgrim op de Camino is bij uitstek een verhalend figuur. De aanloop naar de tocht, de pelgrimage zelf en een lange periode na thuiskomst worden door de pelgrim gevuld met verhalen over bijzondere ontmoetingen, grappige anekdotes, belangrijke gesprekken, ervaringen uit het eigen leven en indrukwekkende legendes. Over de jaren heen is deze narrativiteit dan ook een rijke invalshoek gebleken voor de bestudering van pelgrims. De karakteristieken van het verhaal en de verhalende mens zijn de laatste twintig à dertig jaar echter sterk veranderd, mede door de popularisering van het internet. De invloed die deze veranderingen hebben op het creëren en verspreiden van pelgrimsverhalen is goed te traceren in de verhalen van hedendaagse pelgrims op weg naar Santiago de Compostela; de heropleving van de Camino sinds de jaren ‘90 van de vorige eeuw begint in een tijd waarin ook het online verhaal haar intrede doet. De hedendaagse pelgrim, die soms kan worstelen met de moderne invloeden op deze eeuwenoude route, wordt daardoor direct gevraagd positie in te nemen ten opzichte van de mogelijkheden die het internet biedt tijdens een pelgrimage. Wat betekent deze introductie van het internet voor de manier waarop pelgrims verhalen? En breder: wat betekent het voor de ervaring van pelgrimeren? Op het snijpunt van het pelgrimsverhaal en de online media worden een aantal concepten die traditioneel gebruikt worden om pelgrimeren te begrijpen op de proef gesteld. Dit artikel bespreekt enkele concepten die onder vuur komen te liggen, wanneer pelgrims en pelgrimsverhalen zich in de online ruimte begeven.