2C Blogging Community & How A Community Is Built

Blogging community.

‘Blog’ is a recent developed word in scheme of languages. During past few years, a new dimension and many have formed their own ‘online communities with the explosion of social network platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and blogs. 

How do bloggers create a community.

According to White ( 2006), "people started to blog in specific niches, from gaming, to politics, to third grade classroom curriculum, to chocolate; ecosystems of people writing about things they cared about." 

Based on Nancy White's model, there are three types of blogging communities in media, which are the Single Blog or Blogger Centric Community, Central Connecting Topic Community and Boundaried Community.

One Blog Centric Community

A user or an organization owns one blog, however, more than one blogger may write in a blog. One blog owner can set the rules and norms of engagement.

Topic Centric Community

This form is typified by groups of bloggers with a particular party or issue identification. Personal details are not disclosed on Topic Centric Community blogs, but may share via private email and instant messaging. 

Boundaried Community

Boundaried communities are collections of blogs readers and blogs presented on a platform. Members register and ‘join’ the community and provided the chance to create a blog.  

Methods to Built Blogging Communities.


1. Technology or design. The impact of how the blogging tools are deployed and their impact on the community.


2. Social architecture. Focus of control and power, identity and interaction processes


3. The role of content or subject matter and other issues, such as scalability and lifecycle.

Example:

For example, I fall into the blog called 'Xiaxue's blog', this blog actually attracts the women to gain knowledge on protecting their skin and to keep refresh by moisturizing their skin and to keep their face pretty by teaching professional make up skills to the audience. In this post, the audience and the blogger shared the same interest with Xiaxue. So, the blog that I'm following had the methods of Central connecting topic community. 

References:

White, N 2006, Blogs and Community-Launching a new paradigm for online community? , viewed 23 March 2012, < http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community >

2B Classification of Blogs

According to (Sussman 2009), different people blog for different reasons. Based on the review of 'A taxonomy of blogs', Margaret Simons (2008) has come up with her own lists consist of 9 types of blog classification:

• Pamphleteering Blog

Pamphleteering blog is places where an individual or a group of individuals can post an essay argue on a point or to express a strong point of view.

• Digest Blog 

Users of digest blog tend to summarize points and materials on a single topic mainly from the mainstream media with analysis by adding in comments and opinions of themselves.

• Advocacy Blog

Users of advocacy blog tend to push a point of view on an issue..

• Popular Mechanics Blog

User of popular mechanics blog contain contained extraordinarily rich source of information on how to do stuff.

• Exhibition Blog

Users who is classified into this category will put their creative art work on the web and then talk about how they did it. 

• Gatewatcher Blog

A small group of user that find their purpose by watching the way media does their job. 

• Diary Blog

The majority blog people used and people are putting snapshots with their family, bits of news and views about their lives in personal up online. 

• Advertisement Blog

Advertisement blog is when commercial companies flogging a product and sometimes the commercial companies will actually pay bloggers to post about their product.

• Newsblog

There are a couple of blogs, mostly local ones, which are beginning to try and give people news. 

Compare

There is this blog where a person named Xia Xue, is constantly blogging to teach people the way of making oneself prettier by her professional make up skills. 

The style of her blog is about herself, she make her photo as the background of her blog.

Then, there is this upper part where she put the photo of the day and the latest video of her in blog.

In my opinion, I believe that the better classification of a blog is most important by looking at the style, method and the format audience of a blog. If a blog is filled with informations and the style and placement of the blog is nice and attractive, it is a good blog.








References:


Simons, M 2008, 'Towards a Taxonomy of Blogs', Australian Policy Online, viewed 10 April 2010, < http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/towards-taxonomy-blogs-0 >.

Sussman, M 2009, 'Day 2: The What and Why of Blogging - SOTB 2009', Technorati, viewed 9 April 2010,  < http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-2-the-what-and-why2/page-2 >.

2A - Blog as Current Phenomenon

 Blog as Current Phenomenon

These days people in any country around the world are very used to complete their tasks by using online networking in diverse ways, one of most popular social networks are blogging. According to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere in 2011's research on blogging and social media, research shows that respondents think blogging has positive impacts on their personal life. On the other hand, research above too showed more than 60% of Corporate and Entrepreneur bloggers gained greater visibility in their industry through blogging. Overall, people use social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to promote their blog. However, Corporate and Entrepreneur uses social networks to promote themselves professionally. Naughton (2006) claims that 'the combination of digital convergence, personal computing and global networking seems to have ratcheted up the pace of development and is giving rise to radical shifts in the environment'. Thus, most entrepreneurs used media to receive information and feedback of the readers from their blog. Besides that, they also attract clients through blogging for business purposes. Over and above, Gimmler (2012) claimed that Internet dissolves a specific normative substance of the deliberative process. However, Naughton (2006) said: 'The new ecosystem will be richer, more diverse and immeasurably more complex because of the number of content producers, ...the pace of development made possible by ubiquitous networking.' This explains that Internet will have a greater impact to people around the world in the future. 

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References:

Gimmler, A, 2001, Deliberative democracy, the public sphere and the internet, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://psc.sagepub.com/content/27/4/21.full.pdf>.

Naughton, J, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, United Kingdom, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf>.

Technorati, 2011, State of the Blogosphere 2011, Australia, viewed 18 March 2012, <http://technorati.com/social-media/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-part1/>.

Purpose.

 The purpose of me in creating this blog is to relatively increase experience and knowledge about my course - Issues In Publication Design. Besides that, I wanted to share my knowledge of this course to my course mates and lecturers, also to look into how the power of blogging influences the mass media.