Nancy White (2006) states that blogging communities are actually communities where people post their blogs and share their information to other blogger or outsiders which bring ease to them while searching that particular information which tagged. Besides, she claims that the boundaries among blogging communities are vary from forum based communities which it is more permeable.(White, N 2006)
Wei (n.d.) asserts that blogging communities can actually be created by bloggers who having a similar behaviors and interests on certain issues or topics. Besides, the norms of the communities might be changed due to the assorted values of the bloggers holding and the contents they posted. (Wei, C n.d.)
However, White (2006) then claims that blogging communities can be divided into three types.
Blogger Centric Community
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A community which owned by one person but people who writing posts might more than one which means that they are a group of people who sharing a blog by posting their idea or information through the internet.
Central Connecting Topic Community
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A community that made up several blogs which sharing a common topic and they are all able to access easily by the links that provided in every one of those.
Boundaried Communities
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A large platform that created by numerous blogs which bloggers can access to the other blog within the communities easily and tools such as discussion board are usually provided in the site.
Stephen Downes is actually the name of a blog and it is also the name of the site owner. The blog is a blogger centric community. In the web page, there are lots of others bloggers’ links can be accessed and readers can not just achieve to other blogs but also the key articles that tagged in it.
References
Wei, C n.d., Formation of norms in a blog community, Into the Blogosphere, University of Washington, viewed 21 April 2011, <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/formation_of_norms.html>.
White, N 2006, Blogs and community – launching a new paradigm for online community?, The Knowledge Tree, Australian Flexible Learning Framework, viewed 21 April 2011, <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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