Negotiating Meaning in a Blog-Based Community: Addressing Unique, Shared, and Community Problems

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Author(s): Vanessa Paz Dennen (Florida State University, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 22
Source title: Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2803-8.ch010

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Social Networking

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This chapter addresses how members of a blog-based community share problems and support each other in the problem solving process, both sharing knowledge and offering support. Problems are divided into three categories, unique, shared, and community, each having its own particular norms for presentation, knowledge sharing, and resolution. Additionally, processes may differ based on discourse that centers on one individual blog versus discourse that spans multiple blogs. Findings show that intersubjectivity, norms, roles, and individual ownership of virtual space all are important elements contributing to the problem sharing and solving process.

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