Blogging & Social Media Issues (a)

What Blogs Do to Our Communities

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A malleable and fluid vehicle blogs are, weblogs is a it is a space for bloggers to individualise their voice, and a reflection of facets of their idiosyncratic personality.

Flourishing in rich Internet scales of education, civilisation, and community purpose-driven, blogs rise as a powerful organisational platform for online expression (Carver 2003; Oravec 2002). Blog constructions have been netizens' source of motivation to engage in writing, researching, and analysing online materials. Social cognitions are shaped. Sociocultural values are incorporated to our community lives. In other words, blogging can be a new form of education. Our blended learning initiatives in this course, for example, can develop a weblog-methodology to cater individual mean for students to build and develop individual perspectives 'within an often-overwhelming mix of educational activities' (Oravec 2003). 

Jeff Bullas' 10 Secret Benefits of Blogging

Genres took form, through the passing of time, from poems and biographies to foodlogs, fashionista diaries, and travelougues. The evolving efforts of many volunteer grassroot writers, readers, and patrons are witnessed (Oravec 1996).

The benefits of blogging are nuanced by creative writing leeway afforded in a pool of stylistic approaches and a wide assortment of angles. Such benefits can be utilised in educational contexts to explore social constructivists’ notions, to challenge the orthodoxy, and to demonstrate the growth of social practices (Lave & Wenger 1990; McLellan 1995). 

Weblogs empowers individual voice in a personally-tailored mean. Blogging has steered netizens toward substantial communication modes transacting a wide array of perspectives on PESTLE issues (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental), at the same time countering the rising commercial twist of the Internet.

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References

Carver, B. 2003, 'Is it time to get blogging?', Library Journal, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 30-33.

Lave, J. & Wenger, E. 1990, Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

McLellan, H. 1995, Situated learning perspectives, Educational Technology Publications, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 

Oravec J. 1996, Virtual individuals, virutal groups: human dimensions of groupware and computer networking, Cambridge University Press, New York. 

Oravec J. 2002, 'Bookmarking the world: weblog applications in education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, vol. 45, no. 7, pp, 2-7. 

Oravec J. 2003, 'Blending by Blogging: weblogs in blended learning initiatives', Journal of Educational Media, vol. 28, no. 2-3, pp. 225-233.