blogs and community

Blog, which is first called a web log, which is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent entry or post at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. They have a charateristic is there is a reader comments section that allows readers and bloggers to coverse.

Blogging began to develope since 12 years ago, around 1999. It affected the media, as blogging sites provides everyone a platform to share your idea nd opinion simutaneously; in using traditional media there are time lag between news to be broadcasted around the globe. You can blog in anyway, no matter it is about political, economy, hobbies, or even you can become a paparazzo.

Blogs can bring you new question everyday, when you finish reading other's blog. Someitmes you will discover you will say something you never said befroe, discovering new outlooks in the process of formulating what to write and how to express it. In the way that blog affect our community, we can seperate community in to four parts. In different communities, blogs got different effects.

The first on is the communities of collusion, which is the most common kind of community see inside corporations, institutions and academia. They function like brainwashed cults that think alike and stifle dissent. The existence of blogs will become threatened and undermined. Blogs appear to be a 'waste of time' or a 'deviation from teamwork'.

The second community will be communities of practice, which is the discovery of their own viable shortcute, useful heuristics and valuable 'tricks of the trade' need to be captured for others to use. Blogging could bring out the expertise of its members like lsetservs. Blogs can be see as archived and transmitted to others.

The third one is communities of ideas, which is the exuberant dirversity of bloggers fuels the emergence of better possibilities, questions, strategies and collaborations. Rethinking, reframing, and renewing are the stock in trade of these robust combinations of RSS feed subscriptions, comments and trackbacks utilized. Blogs appear as burtured and enrichment.

The last community is communities of process, which is countless group processes that elicit the contributions of each member: open space, future search, world cafe, etc. The expectation that each blogger be unique , share her /his perspective and contribute to the whole - fits the nature of blogging. Blogs appear to be captured and enhanced.

Reference:
Haskins, T 2007, The effects of blogging on communities, Growing changing learning creating, 5 Novernmber
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