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Monday, April 09, 2007

How Blogging has Changed Your Life

SUPPLEMENT: It seems that it has made me more vulnerable to attacks from people who hate me. Haha! Comments are highly welcome. I just need to enable comment moderation to preserve the theme of this blog. Blogging is not a venue to make away (conyo mode).

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It's interesting to note that Blogging has become an interesting topic for Communication Research Students and Communication Scholars. It has become tremendously popular that bloggers has quite varying demographics. Anyone, from teenagers to professionals, blogging has become nearly everyone's venture.

Mostly for teenagers, blogging is an extension of their daily dose - usually written on perfumed stationary or notebook with funky/cute desings, has become available for everyone's viewing because of the Internet. For young professionals (non-journalists), blogging is an avenue for unleashing various issues - personal (career, love life, daily experiences), social (politics, popular culture - movies, theater, music), and passions (photography, creative writing, music, travel, culture). Meanwhile, for journalists, it is somehow an extension of their work sometimes less formal but often more straighforward (I think).
Blogging can be a venue for activism, fanatiscism, education, simple interaction, intellectual conversation, and a lot more.

I came across a survey on Pinoy Blogging : Goals & Trends. The study is being conducted by Communication Resarc graduate students from UPD-CMC. I've yet to ask my former classmate of the theoretical framework for the study. I'm guessing that they're using Uses and Gratification or even Technological Determinism. I'm not sure, these are just some of the theories I can think of (bobo sa theories).

While reading through the questions, I just realized that blogging have actually "changed" my life.

Here's a link to the On-line Survey. I'm not sure if they're done with the paper but might as well answer the survey. It's interesting and it will really make you reflect about your blogging life.

Time to ask myself, why (the heck) do I blog?


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I envy these students. I want to go back to school!

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