Rzeczpospolita blogów [Republic of Blog]: Examining polish bloggers through content analysis

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 702-722

  Trammell, Kaye D ^a   Tarkowski, Alek ^b,d   Hofmokl, Justyna ^b,d   Sapp, Amanda M ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c Louisiana State University   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION;

BLOGGERS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; HYPERLINKS; LANGUAGE CONTENT; QUANTITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS; WEBLOGS;

BLOGS;

EID: 33748687763     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00032.x     Document Type: Article

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