Blogging Communities...

Blogging communities describe the community of people who using blog as a medium of communication. Blog communities can best be define as blog communities aggregate the individual and independent blogs of a number of people with a share interest (Britta 2007). White (2006) has her own definition regarding the blogging community, “Blogging community is a community who interact online within some bounded set of technologies”. The example of blog communities is Xanga which is used by group of people as a medium of interaction in the same blog rather than having individual blog. According to white (2006) state, there are 3 different types of blog based community.

First blog community is single blog / blogger centric community. This blog works as community arises around the primary blogger. This form of blog based community is readers communicate with other bloggers. They get to know all the blogger and the commentator besides just commenting on the blog.

 

The second type of blogging community is Central connecting topic community. This form of blogging communities is a network formation. This community arises from group of people who shared the same interest and topic of discussion. “This form is exemplified by groups such as food blogger, mummy blogger, travel blogger and political blogger with a particular party or issue identification” (White 2006).

The last group of blogging communities is boundaried community. Boundaried communities is group of blogs and blog readers on a single site or platform (White 2006). This type of blogging communities is member has to register as the first step to join the communities before they are offered to create a blog.

  

Reference:-

Britta, K 2007, Forging Connections and Promoting Growth Through Blog Communities, Viewed 25th March 2012

< http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf >

White, N 2006, Blogs and Communities-Launching New Paradigm for Online Community, viewed 25th March 2012,

<http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>