This thesis focuses on examining users’ perceptions of privacy leakage in Facebook – the world’s largest and most popular social network site (SNS). The global popularity of this SNS offers a hugely tempting resource for organisations engaged in online business. The personal data willingly shared between online friends’ networks intuitively appears to be a natural extension of current advertising strategies such as word-of-mouth and viral marketing. Therefore organisations are increasingly adopting innovative ways to exploit the detail-rich personal data of SNS users for business marketing. However, commercial use of such personal information has provoked outrage amongst Facebook users and has radically highlighted the issue of privacy leakage. To date, little is known about how SNS users perceive such leakage of privacy. So a greater understanding of the form and nature of SNS users’ concerns about privacy leakage would contribute to the current literature as well as help to formulate best practice guidelines for organisations. Given the fluid, context-dependent and temporal nature of privacy, a longitudinal case study representing the launch of Facebook’s social Ads programme was conducted to investigate the phenomenon of privacy leakage within its real-life setting. A qualitative user blogs commentary was collected between November 2007 and December 2010 during the two-stage launch of the social Ads programme. Grounded theory data analysis procedures were used to analyse users’ blog postings. The resulting taxonomy shows that business integrity, user control, transparency, data protection breaches, automatic information broadcast and information leak are the core privacy leakage concerns of Facebook users. Privacy leakage concerns suggest three limits, or levels: organisational, user and legal, which provide the basis to understanding the nature and scope of the exploitation of SNS users’ data for commercial purposes. The case study reported herein is novel, as existing empirical research has not identified and analysed privacy leakage concerns of Facebook users.

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to develop a greater clarity of how HIV infected individuals live and work within the sphere of HIV infection as represented through unsolicited, personal narratives posted on blogs. Existing, single author, personal blogs were identified via a search engine. Blogs were defined as the blog author's postings and all responses, whether written by the blog author or a reader respondent. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed to respect indicators of bloggers' intentions for privacy, e.g., blogs which required a password were excluded. A total of 14 blogs met inclusion criteria. Actions to promote validity focused on the areas of credibility, authenticity, criticality, and integrity. Throughout the blogs, online social connectedness formed the context for expression of the four themes identified to describe the experiences of the bloggers and their readers living with HIV infection. Suffering was the human experience of stigma related to living with HIV infection. This was primarily manifested in either self-imposed isolation or isolation resulting from rejection by others. Relationships addressed both the online and offline/in-person interactions experienced by the blog authors and their readers. These stories were predominantly about receiving support from persons via online interactions. Daily living with HIV dialogue addressed the common experiences shared by various bloggers and their readers such as longing for normalcy. A call to action addressed a self-embraced sense of mission or purpose which was a contributing impetus to blog. Blog readers affirmed these missions in their responses. While these themes have been documented in prior qualitative research on living with HIV infection, the opportunities for online social connectedness altered the expression of these themes. Further research using unsolicited narrative blogs is warranted.

3 Bibliografický záznam Stratilík, Ondřej: Transformace části domácí blogosféry z formy osobních záznamů do jednoho ze segmentů české žurnalistiky, Praha, Karlova Univerzita, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky, 2011 Počet znaků: 121 023 Anotace: Má diplomová práce se prioritně zaměřuje na dnešní podobu a využití části blogů v rámci českého internetu. Zaměřuje se však i na jejich vývoj ve světě i v České republice, jejich autory, internetovou žurnalistiku, její amaterizaci a rozvoj blogů pod hlavičkou zavedených médií. Důležitým bodem je i spor klasických médií a takzvaných nových médií, za jejichž rozvojem stojí rozšíření internetu. Jak na tento fenomén klasická média zareagovala a jak se mu podřídila. Hlavním materiálem jsou výzkumy mezi českými novináři, firmami a administrátory blogů, které mají zjistit, zda se blogy v roce 2011 používají i jako zdroje informací, nástroje k firemní propagaci a PR a jak se vlastně z běžného uživatele internetu může stát bloger. Výzkumy tedy mají potvrdit či vyvrátit tezi, že blogy nepřinášejí témata vhodná už jen pro okruhu jejich stálých čtenářů a diskutérů, ale že jsou dostatečně atraktivní i pro redaktory českých médií, a stávají se tak součástí české žurnalistiky a mediálního trhu. Diplomová práce by měla dokázat a popsat proces, v...

The study is undertaken on the premise that the technological advancement of blogs has not only accorded a novel platform for communication, but has also democratised the right to exercise political expression in Malaysia. Blogs have on numerous occasions outpaced restrictive laws that were enacted to curtail the exercise of this fundamental right and have caused great challenges in applying the existing specific media laws to online content in the blogosphere. The main purpose of the study is to resolve the legal uncertainties faced by bloggers in disseminating political speech under the existing laws of the country and to analyse the legal position in the United Kingdom as a comparative model or reference to the issue. In so doing, the study examines the general principles and restrictive laws to freedom of expression and the application of these rules to political blogs, scrutinises the statutory rules and regulations that are currently being employed to govern the traditional media and the Internet as well as other relevant general legislation, in particular the law of defamation, that has been commonly employed to regulate blog entries and comments by readers in both countries. The study concludes that although offline and online content should not be treated differently and certain regulatory controls are undoubtedly necessary to prevent misuse of political blogs by unscrupulous persons, any legal measures to be adopted by the Malaysian government to govern political blogs should take into account the rapid development of various forms of Internet based communications and be proportionate in light of current needs and the local circumstances of the society.

In his Essay "On Face-Work" Erving Goffman identifies the rules for a number of face-to-face interaction rituals. Among these rituals are two ways of correcting participants within an interaction. The first correction ritual, the interchange, allows offending interactants a chance to save face. The second ritual, the points making game, is a way for interactants to cause other participants to lose face. This thesis analyzes the content of a random sample of blogs to see if the rituals described above are employed in online interaction, specifically looking at blogs and how the context of the rituals is modified, including whether and how they are modified. It was found that the ritual of the interchange was modified. The ritual of the points making game though left unmodified occurred with greater frequency.

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.

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This thesis presents an investigation into the experience of ESL Higher Education young writers when composing three online genres: academic text, diary texts, and blog texts. Central to this investigation is the authenticity of audience and directing texts to ‘real’ readers. Hence, technological tools are utilised in order to approximate such experience of writing for real readers. A qualitative case study was employed over three months of an academic semester at an Omani Higher Education College. Two cases participated in the study of overall 17 students across both cases: 5 males and 12 females and 10 students in case 1 and 7 students in case 2. To attain an in-depth understanding of the cases; different tools of data collection were deployed, including: interviews, classroom observation, reflective diary for recording student perceptions and experiences, and three forms of written texts were collected from the participating students: academic essay, diary, and blog. Thus the reflective diary was both a genre of writing and a data collection method. The study findings highlight that having only a teacher as an ‘audience’ restricted students’ attempts to focus on content, and most of this focus was given to shaping texts in accordance with student perceptions of teacher approved organisation and representation of text. Whereas blogging provided an opportunity to think of a wider range of readers and therefore a greater tendency to author personally selected texts. Also, diary was mostly associated with teacher-audience; though some writers enjoyed writing diary for personal use, the fact that these diary texts vary in accordance with these different understandings of audience offers further credence to claims about the role of real and assumed readers in shaping texts. The significance of the current study is that it offers practical and pedagogical thinking for teaching writing in ESL exploiting the affordances of technology in teaching process writing. It suggests that varying both audience and genres in relation to classroom writing tasks can have benefits for student writers in terms of their understanding of audience, their shaping of text for an audience and increased investment in the content of what they write. It offers insights into problems and issues felt by young writers that are usually unknown to the teachers. Based on those insights, differing issues such as collaboration, process writing and grading are re-evaluated.

本論文旨在探討YouTube上的博客怎樣演繹他們線上的身份。本文重點探討三個在視頻上用語言表達的方法，分別是說話、字幕和註解。YouTube是一個網上流行的視頻分享網站，但也可以視為進行社交的一個平台。是次研究採用三個語言學的層面探討問題，分別是言語行為、觀點和反諷。在多媒體研究的層面下，言語行為在研究中被重新定義為溝通行為。本研究旨在了解博客如何用多媒體的溝通表達方法表達言語行為、觀點和反諷，以至如何演繹他們線上的身份。 / 是次研究探討六個常博客，結合了定量和質量的分析方法。視頻在語言表達方法的框架下被輯錄，然後用兩個層面去分析。本研究首先詳細探討每一個表達方法有什麼不同的用處，然後在探討這些方法結合後怎樣表達語言。 / 本研究採用社會學的方法，目的在探討先前題過的方法怎樣表達出博客的身份，重點在博客如何以反諷表達。是次研究結果亦指出博客如何學會在YouTube上講和寫，以達到他們想有更多影片觀看者的動力。 / 本論文表現出一個傳統的言語行為理論怎樣在線上多媒體的研究上發揮作用。言語行為能被重新定義為多個小事件的結合。研究亦發現了新的言語行為種類，而這些種類是多媒體溝通才能遇見得到的。本研究解釋了反諷如何在線上多媒體進行表現和內涵的語言是並存的。本研究亦討論了博客線上和線下的身份如何取得平衡。 / 本論文提出了本研究採用的方法與傳統研究的方法有什麼抵觸，尤其是在資料收集方法和研究倫理的層面上。本論文提出機密度和匿名度如何在線上研究收到對待。 / This thesis is an investigation into the identity performance of YouTube vloggers (videobloggers), with emphasis on how that is achieved linguistically by three modes of communication available in a video: speech, subtitle, and annotation. YouTube is a popular video-sharing site that is also seen as a platform for social networking. The study looks into three aspects of linguistic analysis: speech act analysis, stancetaking, and verbal irony. Speech acts in this study are redefined as communicative acts to suit the multimodal nature of YouTube vlogs. This study aims to understand vloggers’ identity performance by investigating the use of communicative modes to perform communicative acts, stances, and irony. / Six vloggers participated in the study, which adopted a mixed method approach to data collection and analysis, alchemizing quantitative counting analysis with qualitative interview methods. Vlogs from the informants were transcribed with respect to the three modes of communication of interest, and analyzed in two ways. First, the modes were analyzed separately, revealing how vloggers use these modes differently. Next, the modes were investigated as a whole, looking into the essence of multimodal communication: how cross-modal interactions (mode-mixing and mode-switching) are performed. / A socialistic approach to discourse was adopted to investigate how the aforementioned performance of communicative acts informs vloggers’ identity performance. More specifically, this study looked at how irony is realized by communicative acts and alternations of stances, and how the performance of irony is related to the vloggers’ online identity performance. Findings also revealed vloggers’ learning of how to speak and write in order to become popular and attract more viewers, which is one of their motivations of vlogging. / This thesis demonstrates that the traditional linguistic model of speech acts can be adapted to the context of online multimodal communication with adjustments in definition: by seeing acts as a combination of microevents which interact to make meaning. The study also reports on newly identified categories of communicative acts made possible by multimodal discourse. The investigation reveals how irony is realized in multimodal communication, in which the surface and intended meaning are both present. The study discusses how these practices inform the performance of vloggers’ online identity, and how online and offline identities are maintained in balance. / The methods adopted in the study raise questions of how traditional conducts of research should be understood in the context of online research, particularly in the realm of data collection methods and research ethics. This thesis includes a thorough discussion of how confidentiality and anonymity are treated in this context. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Lien, Feng Pierre. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-146). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Abstract (English) --- p.ii / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.iv / Acknowledgements --- p.vi / Table of Contents --- p.viii / List of Figures and Tables --- p.xii / Transcription Conventions --- p.xv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- Overview --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- The Advent of Web 2.0, YouTube, and Social Networking: An Auto-ethnographic Account --- p.1 / Chapter 1.3. --- YouTube: An Overview --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3.1. --- The Mechanics of YouTube --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3.2. --- From an Epistemic to an Affective Site: Social Networking on YouTube --- p.9 / Chapter 1.3.3. --- Identity Construction on YouTube --- p.12 / Chapter 1.4. --- From Experience to Theory: Perspectives Taken in this Study --- p.14 / Chapter 1.5. --- Research Aims and Research Questions --- p.16 / Chapter 1.6. --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1. --- Introduction --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2. --- Orality and Literacy --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3. --- Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Past Studies of CMC and Computer-Mediated Discourse (CMD) --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Cyberdiscursivity: When Orality and Literacy are not enough --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.3. --- YouTube as a CMCMD --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4. --- Linguistic Discourse and Multimodality --- p.30 / Chapter 2.4.1. --- Cross-modal interaction: Mode-switching and Mode-mixing --- p.32 / Chapter 2.5. --- Language and Identity in CMC --- p.34 / Chapter 2.5.1. --- Identity Performance in CMC --- p.35 / Chapter 2.5.2. --- Multimodal Identities in CMC --- p.39 / Chapter 2.5.3. --- Identity and Stancetaking in CMD --- p.40 / Chapter 2.6. --- Language as Performatives: Speech Acts and Communicative Acts --- p.42 / Chapter 2.6.1. --- Speech Acts in CMC: Expanding the Framework --- p.45 / Chapter 2.6.2. --- Identity and Playfulness in CMC --- p.46 / Chapter 2.6.2.1. --- Humor and Irony in CMC --- p.47 / Chapter 2.6.2.2. --- Irony and Communicative Acts --- p.50 / Chapter 2.7. --- Summary --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Methodology --- p.53 / Chapter 3.1. --- Introduction --- p.53 / Chapter 3.2. --- Reprise of Research Aims and Research Questions --- p.53 / Chapter 3.3. --- Multiple-Case Study --- p.54 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- Informants --- p.55 / Chapter 3.4. --- Data Collection --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4.1. --- Vlog linguistic transcriptions --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4.2. --- Interview Data --- p.61 / Chapter 3.5. --- Procedure --- p.63 / Chapter 3.6. --- Pilot Study with Lindsey --- p.65 / Chapter 3.7. --- Challenges and Insights in Online Methodological Design --- p.68 / Chapter 3.7.1. --- Online Interviews --- p.68 / Chapter 3.7.2. --- Ethics of Online Research --- p.70 / Chapter 3.8. --- Summary --- p.73 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Communicative Acts and Irony on Vlogs --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1. --- Introduction --- p.75 / Chapter 4.2. --- Overview of Vloggers and Their Vlogs --- p.75 / Chapter 4.3. --- Communicative Act Analyses --- p.76 / Chapter 4.3.1. --- Intra-semiotic Analysis --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.2. --- Inter-semiotic Analysis --- p.82 / Chapter 4.5. --- Summary --- p.91 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- The Case of Lindsey --- p.93 / Chapter 5.1. --- Introduction --- p.93 / Chapter 5.2. --- Profile of Lindsey --- p.93 / Chapter 5.3. --- Learning to Write on Vlogs: Establishing Identity through Idioms of Practice . --- p.95 / Chapter 5.4. --- Subtitling a Vlog: Stancetaking, Contradiction, and Irony --- p.101 / Chapter 5.5. --- Identity on and off YouTube --- p.110 / Chapter 5.6. --- Summary --- p.113 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- The Case of Ron --- p.114 / Chapter 6.1. --- Introduction --- p.114 / Chapter 6.2. --- Profiling Ron --- p.114 / Chapter 6.3. --- Blending in: Becoming a Part of the YouTube Community --- p.115 / Chapter 6.4. --- Question of the Week: Expansion of Idioms of Practice and Playfulness --- p.117 / Chapter 6.5. --- Ron’s Identity Performance --- p.122 / Chapter 6.5.1. --- Ron’s Writer and Speaker Identities --- p.122 / Chapter 6.5.2. --- ‘I don’t need to be real’: Online and Offline Identities --- p.126 / Chapter 6.6. --- Summary --- p.128 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.130 / Chapter 7.1. --- Introduction --- p.130 / Chapter 7.2. --- Findings to Research Questions --- p.130 / Chapter 7.2.1. --- Findings to Research Question Set 1 --- p.131 / Chapter 7.2.2. --- Findings to Research Question Set 2 --- p.132 / Chapter 7.2.3. --- Other findings --- p.134 / Chapter 7.3. --- Implications of the Study --- p.135 / Chapter 7.4. --- Limitations and Directions for Future Research --- p.138

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