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The content of Weblogs ranges from personal diary entries to interactive content from news organizations. Employing the uses and gratifications framework, this study examined how much time young adults spend with blogs and how well traditional predictors of media trust fit a model of overall blog trust. Findings from data collections in 2005 and 2007 indicate that information seekers trust blog content more than those using blogs for entertainment purposes. However, traditional indicators of media trust, such as interest in current events, are negatively associated with blog trust. Implications are discussed.

This content analysis examines postings on four Internet political discussion forums based in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. The study of Arabic-language sites concludes that the discussions cover a variety of topics and offer vibrant and complex conversations on political issues in the Arab world. Unlike in the US and European countries, the study found that social issues were not a big part of political debate in the Arab world. The study also found that discussions had varied political agendas influenced by many variables including geography, culture, history, demographics, major news events and political and economic structures. It indicated that the often one-dimensional portrayal of the Arab world in the western media is simplistic and frequently inaccurate.

The ways of handling information that work well in (print and broadcast) do not always translate gracefully into new media environments. Although entertainment (in video games and CD-ROMs) and communication (on the Internet and on-line services) are finding new forms and new configurations in the new media, information (news, reference, education), which still relies largely on text, usually takes on forms native to print environments. These can appear very awkward in new media. This article compares people's relationships to digital media and print media; it also examines information and people's needs for and expectations of information, with an eye toward adapting information design to suit new media environments. This concerns not so much the death of print as it does fitting the interface to both the medium and the message-which some would say are the same thing.