The rise of the internet has aroused the rage of blog.Although blog is a kind of newly arisen personal communication medium, it has been in widespread use.Currently there are already more than 2,000,000 bloggers in Taiwan. However, we don¡¦t know much about them.
While blog is gradually considered a necessity by more and more people, at the same time, how do bloggers perform to express themselves in the spectacular and performative society? When bloggers notice that they are watched by strange audience, would it affect their performance on blogs? When bloggers face different kinds of audience with different interpersonal relationship, what would they do?
However, relevant studies in the past rarely discuss the ¡§performance¡¨and¡§be watched¡¨parts of bloggers together or even any deep research into the performance behavior of bloggers. Therefore, this research attempts to make a more detailed description and interpretation about how bloggers be watched and perform.The research questions are as follows:
First, how do bloggers feel when they¡§are watched¡¨by audience?
Second, do bloggers perform because they want to be watched? How do they
perform when they are watched?
Third, when facing different kinds of audience, how do bloggers make their
own audience segregation?
As a result, I adopt the qualitative research method to explore the experience of student bloggers by not only the using behavior but also the deeper meaning behind their performance. The data are collected via in-depth interview with over 4 male and 4 female graduate students between 20 to 30 years-old who own at least more than one personal journal blog. Besides, I analyzed the data with the structure of the interpersonal relationship such as love, friendship, family and stranger...etc. I tried to describe when bloggers face different kinds of audience, either close or alienated, how they would perform in their blogs. Let¡¦s wait and see how bloggers perform with their audience wonderfully!
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0927107-232729 |
| Date | 27 September 2007 |
| Creators | Tsao, Ya-Ling |
| Contributors | Fan-Hui Lin, Feng-Yuan Kuo, Ping Shaw |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0927107-232729 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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