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Blogging as a Social Action

The first thing I can say about this article is WOW!!! I have to say I was really surprised by the amount of content that this article produced. I can honestly it took me a couple of hours to read this from top to bottom. I printed it off the net and it took up at least fifteen full pages.
From this article I learned a lot of valuable information that I believe will be useful in the future. I have gained a lot of information from the various sources listed within the article (I even managed to see Dr Jerz’s name mentioned as one of the reference sources listed!!!).
This article basically describes the whole history of blogging in extreme detail and what it says is very true in my personal opinion. The authors have an interesting perspective on blogging. She goes onto say how blogs have a social meaning- and quotes things such as ‘Blogs can be both public and intensely personal… they are addressed to everyone and at the same time to no-one.’
I have learned that blogging is a way of communication between different communities with different interests. It states that for centuries people have wanted to learn ‘news values,’ and that without these we probably would have had the scientific development of our time. Even though blogging was first developed in the 90’s the principle of it has been round for a long time. Things can be exposed through a blogging community extremely quickly. Nowadays if people want to find things they look on the internet and within seconds they have their information within seconds. If they want to express their views and opinions they now have the ability to do so through blogging for example.
I think generally what this article is trying to get across is that people rely heavily on ‘information’ to get on with their daily lives which is very true in this respect without information people would not know what is going on within the world. There would be nothing to communicate about, no one would have opinions – the world would be a very dull place.
The article goes onto describe all the benefits blogs can take and how communities can be formed and the benefits that the bloger can gain. It suggests that in general bloggers are authors, and in expressing their opinions they are letting others see what they think.
It goes onto describe that blogging is like a ‘media monitoring service’ which is very true. Everyone, as a blogger wants to be heard in my opinion. They want to express their views and promote their feelings on a particular subject.
From this article I have learned a lot of new things about the significance of blogging- I feel it’s going to get bigger and bigger as time goes on- more people will learn of it and realize it is the new way to communicate electronically and I’m sure it will develop into a much broader area.