A blogging community is basically an online
community that consists of and was created by a group of individuals with a
shared purpose or meaning in which they express using web tools through a
shared blogging platform.
Blog communities
bring together the individual blogger with other independent blogs of a number
of people with a shared interest like an opinion, a view, a cause or something else
(Kinkeldei, 2007). Bloggers establish communities when
bloggers who share a common perspective create a blogging platform in which
each individual blog is connected to each other, their ideas are shared and
readers who share their views join their community in which expands their
community.
Nancy White, 2006 has established three types of
blogging community models. They are the Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community,
the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community.
The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community:
This blog community revolves around one blog which
is owned by one owner or an organization; it is form as readers comment and
gets to know not only the blogger but the community, supporters and their
views.
This community is
based on a single blogging platform and on a single blog. The main idea
for this model is that its success is dependent on the relationship between the
content of the blog, the blogger and mainly, the readers. It relies on the
central blogger’s control. This community grows as the number of supporters and
readers increase with response through comments.
The Central Connecting Topic Community:
This blog community is a network formation; it is
created between blogs connected by a shared interest or topic.
The boundary is
classified as the subject matter (domain) and membership (community). This
community is formed by groups addressing a particular topic of interest. This community does not
rely on a single blog alone, it has the potential to spread to other areas and
create sub communities. In a sense, this model allows for free blogging in terms of
topic and establishment of blog. There is no single platform but they are
linked by hyperlink (blogrolls) by tagging, comments and others. These topic
centric communities are built through blogs sharing a common topic.
The Boundaried Communities:
This blog community is a collection of blogs and
readers on a single platform or site. People are allowed to register and become
members of this community. Examples of these communities are social networking
sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace and so on. The control here is
held by the owner of the platform who can impose any rule on the community.
However individual members have control over their postings, social status and
relationships, and tools that help the individual maintain social status and
relationships.
One such example for a community blog is Technorati
link: http://technorati.com/, the model
which can be applied to this blog is the Boundaried Communities as this
community blog is a collection of blogs in a single platform. The community was
built by individuals sharing information and expression. Individuals have to
register become members of this community.
Reference:
- Kinkeldei, B 2007, ‘Whitepaper Blog Communities: Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities’, 21 Publish, viewed 10 April 2012, http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf
- Technorati 2009, ‘Technorati’, viewed 10 April 2012, http://technorati.com/
- White, N 2006, ‘Blogs and Community-launching a new paradigm for online community’, Australian Flexible Learning Framework, viewed 10 April 2012, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
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