Blogosphere

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John Kelly at the lecture Mapping the global blogosphere .

The term blogosphere ( English blogosphere ) describes the entirety of blogs (short: blogs) and their connections. It arises from the perception that blogs, through their networking, form one or a large number of communities or represent a social network . The term should be reminiscent of "logosphere", which roughly means "world of words". A similarity with the concept of the noosphere is also intended.

history

The term "blogosphere" was first used jokingly on September 10, 1999 by Brad L. Graham. In 2002 it was picked up by William Quick, whereupon it quickly spread to the Warblog community.

Originally used rather jokingly, the term blogosphere has increasingly found mass media and academic use.

A historically important text is the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow , which, based on a techno-liberal position, called for the Internet to be free from the control of national governments. To this day, there has been a strong aversion to any censorship and interference with freedom of expression in the blogosphere.

With the addition of new technologies that make it possible to produce blogs in the form of a web video (so-called vlogging ), the term vlogosphere also emerged .

Origin of the blogosphere

The blogosphere forms a loosely connected network through interaction between the weblogs themselves, but also with social networks.

Networking

The weblogs are networked with one another using various methods:

  1. A feature of blogging is to link to other blog posts on the same topic in the post ( hyperlink ). This gives the reader direct access to further information within the blogosphere.
  2. Weblog such as B. WordPress send a pingback to the linked post, which automatically or moderated converts it into a "return" link. Some bloggers see the actual creation process of the blogosphere in this process.
  3. Commentators - who are often bloggers themselves - often link their names to their own weblog. This creates a kind of disordered blog directory with multiple sources. However, this type of networking harbors some inaccuracies: There is no thematic categorization. Also, not all linked websites are automatically a weblog.

Interaction with social networks

Most social networks like Facebook or Twitter offer the possibility to share web content with your own contacts. This function is also used by bloggers.

indexing

Websites such as Technorati (until May 2014), Blogpulse , Bloglines , Tailrank , PubSub , Rivva and others represent the connections between weblogs. They use hypertext links to filter out networking structures and to be able to follow how memes and certain ones are moving Develop topics in the blogosphere and where they start.

literature

  • Ramón Reichert: Amateurs on the Net. Self-management and knowledge technology in Web 2.0. Bielefeld: transcript, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89942-861-2
  • Aaron Barlow: The Rise of the Blogosphere. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2007. ISBN 978-0-275-98996-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of August 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Blogosphere: The new political arena ( Memento of July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Michael Keren, 2006.
  4. ↑ Vlogosphere. In: Knowledge portal ITwissen.info. DATACOM Buchverlag GmbH, accessed on February 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ What is the blogosphere? - Instructions for the social media blog ( Memento from April 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )