%0 Journal Article
%T Acts of Reading Diary Weblogs
%A Lena Karlsson
%J Human IT: Tidskrift f£¿r Studier av IT ur ett Humanvetenskapligt Perspektiv
%D 2006
%I H?gskolan i Bor?s
%X The number of weblogs has increased exponentially since several weblogservice providers released free and easy-to-use software in late 1999. This enabled people with a computer, Internet access and a desire to present themselves and their daily lives, and/or their political views, tech news, knitting projects for a possible audience to create and keep a blog. Yet, why do people read blogs, and why and how do they read the blogs they read? I report the results of an investigation of diary weblog reading practices. The report is primarily based on a reader survey that I conducted on four independent diary weblog sites which I have followed for the past three years and whose authors I have repeatedly interviewed via e-mail. The survey data suggests that we need to view the diary weblog as a genre, at present stabilized enough for communities of readers to have a sense of their position in the text, to the author, the text¡¯s relationship to the ¡°real,¡± and its use value. The most evident offline antecedent, the paper diary (and offline autobiographicalwriting in general), to a high extent shape these relations.
%K diary weblogs
%K genre studies
%K autobiographical acts
%K interactivity
%K reading
%K media theory
%U http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-8/lk.pdf