The blog provides the place of communication and sharing with the elementary school student teachers who practice teaching at diffinent schools. Using the blog to compose practice process provides the practice- guide organization with practice teachers' another guide channel.The researcher wants to understand how student teachers use the blogs. This study aims to explore the process and the impact of the use of blogs by 10 student teachers on' self-presentation and the internet learning community during one year student teaching practicum. Thus, the purposed of this study are: 1) to observe the self-presentation of blog use in the progress of student teaching, 2) to explore the culture of the internet learning community formed from the blogs of elementary school practice teachers, and 3) to explore the impact of blog writing on the self-presentation and the internet learning community for student teachers. This study uses qualitative research methods, including non-participant observation, interviews, and documentary reviews. After careful examination and analysis of the data collected, the following conclusions are reached: 1. The issue of trust and privacy of public blogs remains a challenge for the use of blogging in education. 2. Blogging helps to generate self-reflection. 3 . The main activity on the blog by the student teachers is journal writing instead of interacting with other student teacher peers. 4. The culture of the internet learning community in the blog environments for the participating student teachers is formal and serious. 5. Student teaching weblogs are not only a "performance stage" but also a "supportive community". The conclusions of this study would be served as suggestions and references for follow-up research. The suggested of this study are: 1) compare the student teacher use paper with blog to write daily record.2) the public of blog have the influence of student teachers.3) which is the factor obstructed student teacher interaction the discussion.

Self-drive day trip tourism has an enormous economic importance for the region of Lower Austria which surrounds Austria´s capital Vienna. The residents of Lower Austria and Vienna form the vast majority of day-trip visitors to Lower Austria. Despite the importance of the segment of day trip tourism for regional tourism marketing organizations (TMOs) this group of tourists is difficult to grasp. Promoting blogs of residents about their leisure time activities in a region is a promising marketing instrument for regional TMOs to address this market segment. This doctoral thesis project proposes and validates a behavioral model based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) for modeling behavioral intentions of three main participatory patterns in online communities based on blogs. Based on the results of this project possible starting points for subsequent research are identified and recommendations for TMOs intending to implement such regional blog communities are provided. The findings of this research project support practitioners by providing a deeper understanding of the motives of prospective participants. As the elements of the proposed behavioral model are based on previous research and conceptualized independent of the topic of interest of the blog community, the findings are additionally indicatory for research on blog communities in other fields. (author's abstract)

The assumption that internet access is a means of building stronger communities is commonly found in a number of sectors, particularly in New Zealand government social services policy. In response to this assumed relationship between internet access and social cohesion, the present multiple case study research project examined the experience of free home internet access among families participating in New Zealand’s Computers in Homes scheme in low socioeconomic school communities between 2003 and 2005. The goal of the study was to assess how internet access and social cohesion are related in a free home internet scheme. Two propositions derived from a literature review underpinned the research goal: first, that internet access leads to ongoing use, and second, that internet access is positively related to social cohesion. The research was designed to test these propositions using a qualitative, constructivist approach with a mixed methodology. The principal method was interviews with adult Computers in Homes family members concerning their internet use and their sense of belonging to, and involvement in, the local community, across two waves of research about one year apart in two community settings. Additional data from observation, interviews and meetings with school principals and key informants such as Computers in Homes staff, provided context. Of thirty volunteer participants from among available Computers in Homes parents at two sites, twenty-six respondents took part in data collection at Time 1. Data from nine Case A and thirteen Case B participants contribute to the results. Nine of the original group participated at Time 2 one year later, seven from Case A and two from Case B. Internet use declined across the group as a whole, a negative outcome mitigated by positive experiences and individual success stories, and the emergence of ‘high-connector’ internet users. While evidence of social cohesion was found at both case study sites initially, it was noticeably associated with the activities and interpersonal influence of confident internet users at Case A where significantly greater retention of ongoing internet use also occurred. A key finding of the study is therefore that ongoing internet use was more successfully achieved in a setting where social cohesion was more readily apparent at the time the free internet scheme was implemented. Thus a positive relationship existed in this research between internet access and social cohesion in one case study of two, where conditions included the presence of opinion leaders and social solidarity. Opportunities for face to face social interaction and support such as are present in Computers in Homes practice are potentially significant for ongoing internet use. The Computers in Homes concept extends participants’ social experiences of community through the way it is structured and implemented. In combination with the mobilising behaviours of leader figures, these social experiences may be factors associated with longer term viability of a free home internet scheme as much as the presence of the internet itself. A range of significant barriers affecting individual internet users at home, and larger obstacles such as confused accountability when external agencies are involved in project management, is signalled in this research. Recommendations aimed at increasing the benefits of a free home internet scheme in terms of participant retention and social cohesion are proposed. Opportunities for further research arise from this study, in clarifying the conditions associated with positive social outcomes for internet interventions with a particular focus on the role of existing group cohesion and leadership dynamics.

Opening part of this paper is dedicated to the ongoing shift in social communication paradigm. An introduction to the subject of new media, web 2.0 concepts and social network sites phenomenon is followed by a discussion of integration possibilities of particular web 2.0 services. Some concerns about privacy, security, legislative framework and general openness of such system are discussed afterwards. A real case study of community virtualization process is introduced in the second part of this thesis. The case takes place in community of local non-profit club of youth and children. First, it is carried out an analysis of the communication receiver groups and the message types. We also describe the ongoing project of launching a new web site (made from several integrated web 2.0 services) and partial results of pilot implementation. Finally, the plan of the next integration steps is designed.

本研究以2009年8月的莫拉克風災中出現的網路災情資訊平台及其行動者為研究對象。探討資訊平台作為民間災難資訊的彙整和即時傳遞，其能夠有效的條件為何？過去災難資訊與網際網路的研究主要探討，其作為新的媒體的傳播特質，因此，本研究除了建立在對資訊平台行動者擁有的技術條件之探究外，主要從「網路動員」的集體行動角度切入，探討該行動是基於何種人際網絡樣貌，而能讓此網路動員得以發生？ 透過次級資料收集和對資訊平台行動者的田野深度訪談發現，災情資訊平台有效性的問題不只是討論行動者擁有社會條件為何，更有趣的是行動者如何從中衍生有效性論述，並建構一套擬似「客觀」有效性標準，作為區隔他者資訊平台進而確立自身正當性的說法。借用Bourdieu象徵鬥爭(symbolic struggle)的分析觀點，對行動者如何進行資訊平台有效性的論述進一步分析。從行動者的有效性論述邏輯中，浮現一個爭奪資訊平台正當性的意見場域。災難情境作為一個突發性的例外狀態，不在政府例行化運作機制可以反應的程度，也因此使其原本作為救災以及災情資訊掌握的正統角色有了被挑戰的機會，而民間災情平台的集體行動則是挑戰此正當性的「異端」，透過網路開放式和平權化的特性，因而得以作到社會性的災情通報、彙整和溝通傳遞的資訊系統。 資訊平台的行動者作為一種網路動員並非僅是匿名而隨機的網友匯集，核心行動者多是屬於網路資訊圈或自由軟體的社群，其共享某些知識、價值或文化氛圍。他們熟悉網路資訊的傳遞或各種網站架構技術，再加上日常以網路資訊為共同興趣的聚會或交流形成不同的社群圈以及相對情感關係更緊密的「小圈圈」。線上、離線社交互動是跨越時、空限制的延續，彼此熟悉的程度高、信任度也高，也因此能協力完成高度動態分工的災情平台架構和維持。其他透過間接關係從網路上召募而來的資訊志工，則是受到災難感的情境影響，較平時更有機會產生對於組織或運作機制的系統信任。而災情資訊平台的有效性，除了建立在在網際網路技術物的開放和平權特性條件外，同時也在於行動者建構有效性論述，讓網路動員持續具有正當性，在災難情境中召喚更多人投入，形成另一股相對於「失靈」政府的公民動員的力量。 / This study aims at discussing the factors of information effectiveness presented in several online platforms built for Typhoon Morakot when it attacked Taiwan. Previous researches which have discussed information flows on the Internet during or after disasters focused on the media effect of the Internet. However, online information platforms built for Typhoon Morakot disaster were not only about the internet technology, but presented a social phenomenon of online mobilization. Based on this observation, this study underlines the discourse and relationship of the key actors ─ the bloggers and engineers, who constructed 4 major information platforms, and explored how these social factors make information platforms possible and effective. The methods of this research are through interview and second-hand data collection, and two results are analyzed and concluded as key factors which contribute to the effectiveness of information platforms. First, not only the actors’ technology or media background play an important role in effective problem of information platform but also their discourses about information effectiveness, which were based on their social conditions, were crucial. The key actors constructed seemingly “objective” standard in their discourse to justify their platforms’ legitimacy for distinguishing theirs from others. Borrowing Bourdieu’s theoretical lens of Symbolic Struggle, this study analyzed the context of actor’s discourses and found different logics of information effectiveness which emerged a field of opinion of discourse for legitimacy completion; at the same time, the government’s failure in dealing with the disasters as the background of the information platform’s appearing is also closely connected to legitimacy competition. The catastrophe that Typhoon Morakot brought to Taiwan was far beyond the government’s routinely mechanism can response to, and challenged government as the only orthodoxy of disaster information and rescue. Hence, civic action mobilized in delivering disaster information on several important internet platforms was the heterodoxy to challenge orthodoxy’s legitimacy. All these mobilization and competition of discourse are possible because of the open and equal-right characters of the Internet. Second, the online mobilization of information platform was not based on people’s random gathering, but based on most of the key actors belong to specific “circles”, such as those from the internet information or open-source communities. In the communities, these people are all interested in internet-related topics and are familiar with online communication technology. Moreover, they became much closer circles by regular meeting and daily communicating on social media and off-line parties for their common interest: internet and information. Their bonds and relationships are formed by intensive on-line and off-line daily practices which brought mutual understanding and trust ─ that is why they could work together and cooperate to keep the platform working.