Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs
Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs

The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments

Author(s): Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu, Claudiu Coman, Angela Repanovici
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Library and Information Science
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: internet; blogs; blogosphere; e-learning; narrative analysis; teaching; virtual learning environments
Summary/Abstract: Scholars draw more and more attention on the benefits of using blogs as virtual learning environments. Because the period 2006 - 2007 was related in Romania to the emergence and unprecedented growth of blogs, we conducted anarrative analysis of online data, obtained during this period for the most popularRomanian blogs. By applying a qualitative-constructivist analysis of narrative data,we evidenced 5 popularity assessment criteria: (1) originality; (2) usefulness; (3)topicality; (4) subjectivity; (5) and coherence. Building on the identified criteria, we formulated recommendations for making blogs more efficient as virtual learning environments.

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