Monday, 2 September 2013

Week 6--Community and Culture in the Blogosphere

Blog is more like an electronic diary to me, I never use it as a tool for a community or to spread any kind of culture I think. So when I saw this topic, I find it interesting and I really want to think about it. I usually blog as a tool to show my emotion or something interesting, something important and something I like. However, I can't deny that, blog is also can be used to spread culture(words, images, videos...) for the communities. 


As Merlyna Lim said,' Dean’s Blog for America showed how a blog could be used for building social networks of political support'.(Lim, M., 2012) That is to say, blog  can not only use to share your emotion with other people, but also can be used to change the current situation of the whole society. I can't say that political parties and groups are communities, but they do work as big communities. And now, they use blog to share the information of the parties, tell the blog users they can keep pace with the time. 

With culture, I think blog is also a good way to spread it. 'According to the The Nielsen Company, as of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence'.(Answers,2013) As there are so many people are using blog, it is not hard to imagine how fast and how many that the information will be extended.  So no matter what communities they are, they can use blogs as a medium  to share the information to the bolt users, then the users may share to others who don't use the blogs. This is like a circle, you don't know how big is it, but information is spread much more faster in this way. 

When I use the blog, I don't  consider myself is pass something to other people, I believe I'm doing what I want to do, however, I can't decide who will read about what I write and tell to someone else. May be I have helped or will help some communities to share the information. 

 Linrong Li




Reference 
Answers 2013,'How many bloggers are there worldwide?', retrieved 02 September 2013, <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_bloggers_are_there_worldwide >

Lim, M., 2012 ‘Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere’, Journal of Media and Religion, vol. 11, pp 127-140.

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2 comments:

  1. Unknown26 September 2013 at 05:42

    Hi Linrong
    I felt the post of yours regarding community and culture in the blogosphere was addressing some relevant themes such as online community and the power that blogs have as a communicative tool. I enjoyed your example of the blogosphere and groups connecting like a circle, information spreading as such. Your references to the readings I though could do with a little more detail, also adding pictures or maybe videos to the post could generate a more visually appealing post. How you ended the post with a personal belief I enjoyed, it definitely made me think about how much or little a post such as a blog could change ones discourse on a particular subject. Thank you for the interesting read!
    Blake

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  2. Unknown26 September 2013 at 21:12

    I like the way you find blogs to be so diverse, that they can be used for personal use, for spreading the word about something or to benefit a community. You've really got a good understanding the positives that can come from a blog, particularly in relation to communities. I feel to round off this post a picture or a screenshot of a really successful blog that has had a positive impact would really complete your own blog.

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