Blogging community can be defined as a community where people connect and exchange information using web tools where a group of people with similar goals and interests meet (Owyang, 2007). Based on White (2006), she has traced three types of blogging communities, which are the single blog or blogger centric community, topic centric community and the boundaried community.
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| DIAGRAM 1.0 : TYPES OF BLOGGING COMMUNITIES |
The first type of blogging community is the blogger centric community where the central authority is the blog owner and the topic focus depends on the blogger but not the community. Moreover, the community maybe disappears without the blogger.
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| DIAGRAM 1. 1 : BLOGGER CENTRIC COMMUNITY |
The second blog is known as topic centric community. This form of blog is identified based on the particular party or issue. The identity of the blog is shared between the identity of the blogger and the topic of the blog. Besides that, there is a lot of back channel conversations, which happen between posts, comments and links.
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| DIAGRAM 1. 2 : TOPIC CENTRIC COMMUNITY |
The third community will be the boundaried community. Here, each blogger has a profile that provides a clear identity and the boundary of the community is emphasized. Bloggers in the community uses other tools to connect to each other and the interactions also take place outside the blog. The focus is on ongoing interactions between the members and the agreement across the community.
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| DIAGRAM 1. 3 : BOUNDARIED COMMUNITY |
I would like discuss about one blog which is the ‘Global Voices’ which falls under the boundaried community as analysed by White (2006). This blog works as a platform for more than 300 bloggers to become a community in a single blog. As mentioned by White, this blog allows community building where it helps people to speak out online. Moreover, the content I based on bloggers is either focused or all over places. (285 words)
REFERENCES
Denise 2009, How do you build community? , viewed on 22 August 2011, <http://www.blogher.com/how-do-you-build-community >
Owyang J 2007, Defining the term: online community, viewed on 21 August 2010, http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/12/28/defining-the-term-community/>
White. N 2006, Blogs and community-launching a new paradigm for online community, going communal, edition 11, viewed on 19 August 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>
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