The term researchers use is “co-rumination” to describe frequently or obsessively discussing the same problem. The behavior is typical among teens — Why didn’t he call? Should I break up with him? And, psychologists say, it has intensified significantly with e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging and Facebook. And in certain cases it can spin into a potentially contagious and unhealthy emotional angst, experts say.
The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. A group at the University of California-Irvine, however, decided to approach the question from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers. Mixing in a dose of literary theory provided some interesting insights into how readers view and define blogs.
The girls reinforce their close friendships with one another & with classmates who also blog. They use their blogs to rollick & rant & reminisce, perhaps with less attention to the niceties of word choice & spelling & grammar than they invest in their English papers. They express sides of themselves at odds w/ their public personas & glimpse what may not be apparent in their friends.
The Online Diary History Project was a collaborative effort. After all, who better to write the history of online journals than the people who wrote (and still write) the online journals? We brought together the personal recollections of those journallers who got their start between 1995 and the end of 1997.
Strong Women, Strong Girls has created an innovative after school model that uses the study of contemporary and historic female role models, mentoring relationships with college undergraduate women, and skill building activities to help at-risk girls in grades 3-5 build positive self-esteem and skills for life-long success.
While creating content enables girls to experiment with how they want to present themselves to the world, they are obviously interested in maintaining and forging relationships.
Girls continue to dominate most elements of content creation. Some 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Boys, however, do dominate one area - posting of video content online. Online teen boys are nearly twice as likely as online girls (19% vs. 10%) to have posted a video online somewhere where someone else could see it.
In “The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends,’” a paper this year in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Nicole Ellison, an assistant prof at Michigan State University, and colleagues found that Facebook use could have a positive impact on students’ well-being. The Harvard-U.C.L.A. researchers are investigating triadic closure, a concept 1st put forth by the German sociologist Georg Simmel.
A team led by Carlos Guestrin, an assistant professor of computer science and machine learning, scanned about 45,000 blogs and ran them through an algorithm that measures how information propagates. (This is an example of blog research focused on filter, "A-list" blogs.)
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