Web 2.0 was a phrase coined in 2004 to describe the characteristics of web sites which survived the original Dot-com crash. Despite the discussion of this phenomenon in a wide variety of both academic and mass media sources, itʼs exact definition remains unclear. The relative contributions of technology and social participation to this phenomenon are particularly confused. The primary aim of this research report is to provide a clear and comprehensive definition of Web 2.0. This definition is determined through a combined social and technological analysis of blogs, wikis and social network sites, through their particular manifestations in Boing Boing, Wikipedia and Facebook respectively. It is the finding of this research that Web 2.0 is primarily the result of a natural evolution from Web 1.0 technologies and attitudes, and that Web 2.0 is essentially a social phenomenon. This research provides separate definitions for Web 2.0 technologies and Web 2.0 platforms. A Web 2.0 technology is any technology that aids and encourages simple intuitive user interaction through an architecture of participation. These technologies enable user feedback, and are thus constantly improved and exist within the ethos of a perpetual beta. Web 2.0 technologies embrace re-mix and mash-up philosophies. A Web 2.0 platform is a read-write Web platform designed to enable and encourage User Generated Content and interaction. These platforms can be built with any set of technologies, and their primary characteristics are social in nature, but the platforms must allow users to interact with the technology at either an open-source, network or appropriation level. These platforms become more powerful and richer the greater the number of people using the platform, and ultimately result in the formation of Web 2.0 communities.

Ferramentas de publicação e instrumentos de mídia social, os diários virtuais íntimos, blogs de conteúdo temático relacionado ao cotidiano, exploram as potencialidades imersivas e interativas das mídias digitais e compõem percursos de sentidos no labirinto hipertextual anunciando a problemática do descentramento do sujeito, do interdiscurso e da autoria. Partindo de uma perspectiva teórica e metodológica enunciativa e discursiva, percorrem-se as instâncias sintáticas, semânticas e pragmáticas da materialidade do enunciado para investigar as formas de emergência do sujeito no espaço e no tempo e explorar analiticamente fenômenos da contemporaneidade: as articulações identitárias e as formas de subjetivação, o processamento da memória e a relação entre o público e o privado no ciberespaço. Tal metodologia de análise do corpus confere uma visão do objeto não apenas como um componente dos dispositivos de comunicação multidirecionais, mas como uma ferramenta de articulação narrativa de si, marcada por um modo de enunciação específico, diferente daquele dos diários íntimos tradicionais uma vez que o contexto hipertextual altera as condições de produção do discurso. Dessa metodologia baseada na Teoria da Enunciação e na Análise do Discurso de linha francesa depreende-se não apenas os mecanismos lingüísticos de insurgência subjetiva mas também as formas de inserção do sujeito na ordem do discurso. / As publication and social media tools, blogs related to individual daily routine explore the immersive and interactive potential from the digital media composing meaning circuits in the hypertextual labyrinth by considering a interdiscourse point of view. From a theoretical and methodological discursive perspective, either syntactic, semantic and pragmatic textual plans are evaluated in order to investigate the ways in which the subject emerges within space and time and to explore analytically the identity and subjectivity articulation, the memory process and the connection between public and private in the cyberspace. This method of analysis provides the object with a prospect of not only a component of multi-directional communication devices but as a tool to articulate the self narrative, marked by a specific form of enunciation that differs from the traditional journal due to hypertextual context that changes the discourse production. This methodology is based on the Theory of Enunciation and in the French Discourse Analysis, both focused not only on the linguistic mechanisms of subjective insurgency but also on the ways of the subject insertion in the order of discourse.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:25:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 5 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a permeabilidade das relações sociais online e offline atravessada pelo potencial dos blogs como alternativa de contraponto à mídia hegemônica. Pretendemos analisar a dinâmica dos relacionamentos online e offline junto a um grupo de blogueiros reunidos em torno de uma afinidade temática. Inversamente, pretendemos também descobrir como essa sociabilidade afeta o conteúdo de suas postagens cuja pauta principal gira em torno da política e da crítica da mídia corporativa. Para isso, escolhemos um coletivo de blogs selecionados pelo cruzamento da proximidade geográfica dos participantes com o volume de interações online entre si. A quantificação e a comparação das conversações estabelecidas entre os blogueiros envolveu a observação dos blogs durante o período eleitoral de 2008 em função da frequente discussão de questões políticas e jornalísticas locais. Para compreendermos o tema, buscamos na teoria a evolução conceitual dos blogs, descrevendo aspectos técnicos e histórico

Atualmente somos educados para termos saúde. Não há quem nos ensine a conviver com uma doença. Numa sociedade que, com seus avanços tecnológicos e biomédicos se acredita poder controlar tudo e que há uma cura para todo o mal, ter de aprender a viver e conviver com a dor e a doença é um grande desafio. Nessa tese, analiso blogs de pessoas que vivem em condição crônica de doença como uma forma de educação para a doença. Vejo esse espaço de comunicação, educação e partilha também como um construtor identitário a partir da narrativa autobiográfica. Realizando esse estudo, a partir dos Estudos Culturais em educação e comunicação, construo, primeiramente uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os principais temas concernentes à pesquisa: saúde, doença, identidade, narrativa autobiográfica e internet. Após, realizo uma análise, a partir de um ponto de vista netnográfico, de cinco blogs brasileiros de pessoas em situação crônica de doença (artrite reumatoide, lúpus, espondilite anquilosante, diabetes e doença de fabry). Os blogs se apresentam não apenas como espaço para a escrita da experiência pessoal, mas como um lugar político e de resistência, não só de posicionamento dos blogueiros que os escrevem mas como um modelo de conduta para seus leitores. / Nowadays we are educated to have health. No one teaches us to live with a disease. In a society that, with its technological and biomedical advances we believe to control everything and that there is a cure for all evil, have to learn to live and live with the pain and illness is a big challenge. In this thesis I analyze blogs of people living in chronic disease condition as a form of education for the illness. I see this space of communication, education and sharing as well as an identity builder from the autobiographical narrative. Realizing this study from the Cultural Studies in Education and Communication, I construct, first a literature review on the main issues concerning the research: health, disease/illness, identity, autobiographical narrative and internet. Then, realize an analysis from a netnographic view, of five Brazilian blogs of people with chronic disease condition (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, diabetes and Fabry disease). This Blogs are presented not only as a space for writing from personal experience, but as a political place and resistance, not only positioning of bloggers who write them but as a role model for your readers.

This research explored how and in what ways early childhood and fatherhood are constructed in Taiwanese father-run baby blogs. Nowadays, many parents use the internet to record and share their experiences of being (and becoming) parents. There is a growing body of literature on mothers on the internet, but the subjects of fathers on the internet and the child as recorded by the parents are both under-explored. This research selected three public Taiwanese baby blogs to study. All of the blogs were being run by new fathers and all were named (entitled) using the child's name or nickname. The entries and interactions within these blogs up until the blogged children turned three years old were observed. The blog entries and the interactions within them were treated as public texts, and a qualitative method suitable for analysing different forms of blog contents was developed. In relation to the new doing of fathering - blogging - the interactive nature of the internet and its function of creating and strengthening the identity were not obvious in this research. Although these blogs seemed to be isolated from other online communities, one of the studied cases provides us with an example of how the blog and the participants' off-line activities enrich each other. The findings of this research also suggest that these public presentations of family life have the purpose of displaying family, in order to confirm the family relationship with their readers and especially with the recorded child in the future. This displaying provided us with the three fathers' versions of fatherhood. It was found that the fatherhood being constructed in these blogs is closer to the old version of a good father. The father's role still appeared as that of supporter of the mother, who was still seen as shouldering the main responsibility for child raising. However, from an analysis of the process and the descriptions of the decision making displayed in these blogs, this research suggests that the supporter (father) - leader (mother) relationship (Sanchez & Thomson, 1997; S. Williams, 2008) should be understood as a relationship between the project director (father), who oversees the project of child raising, and the project manager (mother), who has to get the project done. Although their child-raising record showed the characteristics of intensive parenting, because of this director-manager relationship, the intensive parenting shown by the father should in fact be seen as a type of intensive mothering. With regard to the displayed child, it was found that the Taiwanese child is surveyed and defined (normal or abnormal) by the state, the medical system, and parents' daily practices. The child is also nurtured with traditional gender stereotypes and traditional aspirations (to be filially obedient) in mind. In the nurturing process, the importance of education is highlighted and the child is taken to participate in competitive activities from under one year old. It was concluded that, overall, the fatherhoods and childhoods found in this research join forces in constructing and confirming (old) Taiwanese norms relating to fathers and to the 'normal' and competitive child. Since the children in this research were represented by the father and lacked agency, it is suggested that there is a pressing need for further research into the subsequent experience of these once-displayed-in-public children, that will give us a better understanding of the practice of sharing one's child(ren)'s information online.

<p>Denna uppsats fokuserar på att fånga upp en relativt ny och växande företeelse inom elektronisk kommunikation, bloggen. Med min undersökning vill jag belysa bloggens möjligheter som ett kommunikationsmedel för ledare inom offentlig verksamhet samt öka förståelsen för vad en blogg är.</p><p>Ett utmärkande drag för bloggen, som är en uppdaterad webbplats vars startsida karaktäriseras av ett antal daterade texter i omvänd kronologisk ordning, är att den beskrivs som en dagbok med en personlig, subjektiv och vardaglig text utan krav på källkritik av innehållet. Bloggen beskrivs gärna som en form av ”gräsrotsjournalistik” men den används också som strategisk kommunikation till exempel av offentliga aktörer som politiker och företagsledare eller som ett komplement inom traditionella media.</p><p>Jag har valt att göra en kvalitativ textorienterad analys av tre ledares bloggar: Rektor Kåre Bremer vid Stockholms universitet, vice-ordförande Margot Wallström vid EU-kommissionen och generaldirektör Andreas Carlgren vid Integrationsverket. Jag ville veta vad de bloggar om, hur de använder sig av attributet och hur pass privat eller offentligt deras kommunikation är.</p><p>I min undersökning kom jag fram till att de tre ledarskribenterna använder bloggen/elektronisk kommunikation som ett strategiskt redskap att kommunicera men de gör det på lite olika sätt.</p><p>Margot Wallström använder sig av sin privata sfär som metod för sin strategiska kommunikation samtidigt som hon verkar i det offentliga rummet. Hon utnyttjar alltså sitt privata liv för att lyfta upp frågor som berör den offentliga verksamhet hon verkar inom. De två manliga ledarna använder inte den privata sfären utan håller sig till frågor som i stort rör deras verksamhet.</p><p>Kåre Bremer är den ledare som tydligast fokuserar på sin organisation och för ut ett målinriktat budskap. Detta sker genom att han i högre grad utnyttjar bloggens möjligheter till att skriva ofta och kort. Han tar upp och återkommer till ämnen eller frågor som han anser är viktiga att föra ut till medarbetarna i verksamheten. Han drar sig inte heller för att framföra synpunkter om sin verksamhet gentemot sina uppdragsgivare som riksdag och regering.</p><p>Andreas Carlgrens personliga brev utnyttjar däremot inte bloggens tekniska attribut eller internets snabba publiceringsmöjlighet. Hans elektroniska brev är allmänt hållna och långa samt utkommer för sällan för att upplevas som ett nyhet eller som en dagbok.</p><p>Professionen styr de tre ledarnas bloggar, man är medveten om sitt ledarskap. Deras samtalsstil uppfattas som personlig även om de skriver korrekt och med ett välformulerat skriftspråk. Endast Margot Wallström utnyttjar bloggen som interaktiv media med möjlighet till respons via inlägg från läsaren. Samtliga tre ledare poängterar att deras bloggtexter är deras egna personliga åsikter men helt klart är att den information som de förmedlar uppfattas som källkritisk korrekt, representativ och giltig.</p><p>Min undersökning bekräftar att bloggen bör ses som en formell kanal med en informell stil som ledningen med fördel kan använda som komplement om denne har klart för sig vilka kommunikativa mål man vill uppnå. Den får dessutom bäst effekt om ledaren utnyttjar bloggens tids- och rumsliga styrka.</p>

Due to rapid development of the internet, it changes the life style of the human. The internet expert had reported that we are now in Web2.0 era. This research tries to explore how web GIS can fullfil the spirit of the Web2.0 and its possible applications. The first step of the research is to review the related techniques and applications of Geospatial web services and Web2.0. Then, a system with open GIS data structure was proposed and a web system was also established according to the spirit of Web2.0 - ¡§user participation¡¨. Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS) defined by Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC) were used in Geospatial web services system to search and view Geospatial data on the internet. Users can integrate spatial data from various sources on the internet and their own geospatial data and save as Web Map Context (WMC) file format. Then, WMC can be exchanged by other OGC Geospatial web services. In addition, the system supports file format transformation from WMC to KML, which is compatible with Google Earth. So users can use Google Earth to view the spatial layer information more easily. This study also developed a platform to demonstrate geospatial information in the blog, so users can share their Geospatial data in open GIS format with other bloggers. The system also use Google Map API and folksonomy in the data sharing process in order to speed up the web flow and to communicate their comments more easily.

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The aim of this study is to describe teenagers' experience of being diagnosed with cancer. A cancer diagnosis very dramaticaly changes the lives of a teenager and its relatives. Cancer is a loaded word that most people associate with death and the teenager and its relatives generally react with despair and anxiety towards. Adolescence is a very emotionally difficult period with many physical and psychological changes, and it is therefore particularly difficult to suffer from a serious illness like cancer during this period. The method used when conducting this study is qualitative content analysis of various blogs written by teenagers living with cancer and resulted in six categories. The result of this study shows that the analyzed teenagers have similar feelings and experiences, although they are described in various ways. Constant fear and living in uncertainty are considered to be particularly difficult. Teenagers who have cancer develope a different outlook on life and value small things differently. The teenagers included in this study have often felt alone in their situation and that no one understands them. Blogs have been used as a form of therapy where the teenagers can express their feelings. A nurse can inform and encourage patients to use blogs both in order to read about people in simular situations and also as a forum to express their own feelings.

In recent years, due to the popularity of smart phone, the mobile application store are loved by consumers, making an increasing number of about 40 mobile application stores around the world. Mobile applications store offers a wide range of applications, software programs, content and services, such as games, tools, music, entertainment, books, etc., allowing consumers to use free or paid downloads. A variety of choices meets all aspects of consumer demand that changes the original value provided by phone service. However, it is doubly difficult to make one software standing out from the number of the many applications and thus increasing the amount downloaded made by consumers. Even if the store offers different kinds of marketing methods to assist the software increasing exposure opportunities, but still not enough. The goal of this study is going to improve the visibility of the software. After comparing the various media channels, finding the appropriate promotional channel for mobile applications is social media. Then by two cases analyzed understands the marketing effect through social media. By the aforementioned, this study sorts out the appropriate exposure development model of mobile applications software. First, software developers choose the appropriate software to create pages by being promoted software attributes and the media habits of target segments. Second, building blog provides consumers with more complete software and activities information to make up for other types of social media which is not entirely on message passing. Third, the software developer integrates the related sites, including blog, social media, or website to help the update information to be obtained on all relevant sites.