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Neue Blog-Veranstaltungen

In den kommenden Wochen werde ich auf einigen Veranstaltungen zum Thema Blogging eingeladen sein. So findet am 23. November Blogging, Peer-Medien & Co eine interessante Diskussion zum Thema "Wer beherrscht die Unternehmenskommunikation?" statt. Programm und Veranstalter haben hier ein paar Infos hinterlegt.

Bloggraphies II

Just realized I had an old post prepared with a long list of blog links and resources from academics and journals, etc. which never made it to the public. So here it is (finally!). Next time I´ll add some more links and I´ll hyperlink them. Please comment here in this post if you do know more links and resources to academics on the field of blogs.

Blogs persistent?

An article by Kumar et al. in the December issue of CACM (Communications of the ACM) deals with the structure and evolution of blogspace. The conclusion of the article is that blogosphere is a rich and complex social environment that admit for further research. The authors view the emergence of the blogosphere in three layers: the individual blogger that can be defined by its prime characteristics such as age, geography and interests. The second layer consists of bloggers that belong to the same interest groups, mainly having the same geographic and/or demographic correlations. The top layer consists of so called blog communities. Their empirical research study with more than 25,000 blogs involved showed that these communities show identifiable bursts of activity over a certain period of time. Interestingly enough the magnitude/level of burstiness seems to increase over time suggesting that local community structure and and community-level interactions are being reinforced as blogspace grows. They therefore conclude that blogs will remain a pervasive phenomen on the Web.

Thus this research of Kumar et al. underlines the hypothese of Zerfaß who claims that the blogosphere is a new emerging, global communication arena.

Blog-Umfrage 2006

Am 1.11 startete eine europaweite Umfrage, die EuroBlog 2006. Eine von der EUPRERA European Public Relations Education and Research Association gestartete Umfrage, möchte den derzeitigen Stand zum Thema Blogs und PR herausfinden. In der EUPRERA sind führende Hochschulen
und PR-Wissenschaftler aus über 30 Ländern vertreten - darunter auch aus
Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Angesprochen sind PR-Verantwortliche in Unternehmen, Agenturen und anderen
Organisationen. Der Online-Fragebogen kann hier in angeblich fünf Minuten ausgefüllt werden.
Wer mitmacht, erhält die
vollständige Auswertung. Die Umfrage läuft bis Ende November 2005.
Mehr Infos dazu auch über den BIG-Autor Dr. Ansgar Zerfaß, der die Infos bereitstellte.