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Making the ordinary visible in microblogs

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Making the ordinary visible in microblogs
Microblogging is a ‘‘Mobile Web 2.0’’ service category that enables brief blog-like postings from mobile terminals and PCs to the World Wide Web. To shed light on microblogging as a communication genre, we report on multiple analyses of data from the first 10 months of a service called Jaiku. The main finding is that microblogging centers on selective, I-centered disclosure of current activities and experiences, making daily experiences visible for others. The high frequency of brief and mundane status updates, like ‘‘working,’’ may be a second-order effect resulting from posting becoming a routine executed to keep the audience interested. The results highlight the importance of reciprocal activity and feedback in users’ motivation to invest in this activity. Keywords Microblogging Á Self-disclosure Á Mobile services Á Jaiku
Antti Oulasvirta, Esko Lehtonen, Esko Kurvinen, Mi
Added 30 Jan 2011
Updated 30 Jan 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where PUC
Authors Antti Oulasvirta, Esko Lehtonen, Esko Kurvinen, Mika Raento
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