Focus Group Project

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Focus Group Project

Examining the Relationship Between

Social Ties and Continued Participation in the

Web blogging System

Introduction

Given the apparent importance of social interaction , current researchers had endeavored to study political opinions (Adamic Glance 2 ) to evaluation of the conversational quality characteristics of web blogs (Herring et al . Yet the usual researches cover analysis of the demographics of bloggers , content analysis of the bloggers ' messages (Brandes 163-177 ) and some web blogging systems (Gu et al . Hence , the research of the aspects underlying the

continual user activity would present a significant setting for future research

Research Problem

How are the number and nature of social ties related to people 's willingness to continue contributing content to a weblog

Research Objectives

To analyze the conversational nature of weblogs (Herring et al

To analyze various focuses on the relationship between social ties and continued activity

To examine the nature of social links contained within the weblog medium Rationale

Since the popularity of weblogs soared , the interaction between bloggers has become a point of study of web developers , researchers and users . Services that promotes enhancement of interaction for instance Facebook , Friendster and the like had constructed various options that utilizes web blogging systems that offers content sharing . At the same time , researchers had endeavored to analyze the correlation in reference to the collection of web blogs and finding out the social relations amidst the web bloggers . Yet , researches had failed to examine the nature of the social networks...