Motives for Maintaining Personal Journal Blogs

“…They reported five significant determinants for blogging: perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, altruism, reputation, and identification with a blogging community. With the uses and gratifications perspective, Hollenbaugh (2011) examined the motives for writing personal journal blogs using data collected from nearly 300 active bloggers. The leading motives for blogging, they reported, were to record/organise thoughts and feelings, share information to help or inform others, keep social connections, and seek feedback from others.…”

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Understanding student perceptions and motivation towards academic blogs: An exploratory study

Deng

Yuen

2012

AJET

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The success of academic blogs depends on the participation and engagement of students. Taking an exploratory approach, this study aims to develop a better understanding of the perceptions of student teachers towards academic blogging, and the factors that motivate them to write academic blogs voluntarily. Drawing on data gathered from questionnaires, interviews, and content analysis of blog posts, the study reveals a set of mediating factors in individual, social and academic dimensions, among which students' perceived values of blogs play a critical role. Our findings have methodological and practical implications for researchers and teachers interested in academic blogs, especially for those in the field of teacher education.

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“…Self-disclosure relates to usage objectives on social media as discussed before [12,45,66,109]. For example, Twitter users may put their web page links when they aim to promote themselves for personal or professional reasons.…”

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How self-disclosure in Twitter profiles relate to anonymity consciousness and usage objectives: a cross-cultural study

2018

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Social media-particularly services such as Twitter where most content is public-present an interesting balance between social benefits and privacy risks. Twitter users have various usage objectives to gain social benefits. As to privacy risks, we introduce the concept of "anonymity consciousness" as users' intention to avoid being identified and reached by strangers when engaging in public space. In this study, we present a cross-cultural study to investigate self-disclosure in Twitter profiles, usage objectives on Twitter, and anonymity consciousness and examine how self-disclosure is influenced by usage objectives and anonymity consciousness. Specifically, this study targets Twitter users in the United States, India, and Japan. We find: (a) Indian users are more likely to disclose their personal information and have weaker anonymity consciousness than US and Japanese users, (b) users in every country are less likely to disclose their real name if they have stronger anonymity consciousness, and (c) US users tend to disclose their web-page link and Japanese users tend to disclose their affiliation when advertising themselves on Twitter.

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Motives for Maintaining Personal Journal Blogs

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