TY - JOUR
T1 - The psychology of blogging
T2 - You, me, and everyone in between
AU - Gurak, Laura J.
AU - Antonijevic, Smiljana
PY - 2008/9
Y1 - 2008/9
N2 - The phenomenon and practice of blogging offers a rich environment from which to look at the psychology of the Internet. By using blogging as a lens, researchers can see that many predictions and findings of early Internet research on social and psychological features of computer-mediated communication have held true, whereas others are not as true, and that the psychology of the Internet is very much a sense of the one and the many, the individual and the collective, the personal and the political. Blogs illustrate the fusion of key elements of human desire-to express one's identity, create community, structure one's past and present experiences-with the main technological features of 21st century digital communication. Blogs can serve as a lens to observe the way in which people currently use digital technologies and, in return, transform some of the traditional cultural norms-such as those between the public and the private.
AB - The phenomenon and practice of blogging offers a rich environment from which to look at the psychology of the Internet. By using blogging as a lens, researchers can see that many predictions and findings of early Internet research on social and psychological features of computer-mediated communication have held true, whereas others are not as true, and that the psychology of the Internet is very much a sense of the one and the many, the individual and the collective, the personal and the political. Blogs illustrate the fusion of key elements of human desire-to express one's identity, create community, structure one's past and present experiences-with the main technological features of 21st century digital communication. Blogs can serve as a lens to observe the way in which people currently use digital technologies and, in return, transform some of the traditional cultural norms-such as those between the public and the private.
KW - Identity
KW - Private
KW - Psychology
KW - Public
KW - Weblogs
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U2 - 10.1177/0002764208321341
DO - 10.1177/0002764208321341
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:48349091303
SN - 0002-7642
VL - 52
SP - 60
EP - 68
JO - American Behavioral Scientist
JF - American Behavioral Scientist
IS - 1
ER -