Outline of Findings.

Still subject to change but this is roughly how I'm structuring it. Expect it in your mail boxes at an unearthly hour tonight.

interpersonal comms:
1. for different audiences: general and particular
2. complements/substitutes
a) daily interaction
b) other forms of CMC
3. Issues of responsiveness, power and liking (I may not use this point)peer pressure/influence:

Peer pressure/influence:
1. the initial reason for many to even start considering keeping blogs
2. subsequently becomes the reason they update frequently (either overt pressure or internal pressure)
3. In one case, peer pressure actually changes the reason for blogging
4. All in all, issues of personal climate (motivator or demotivator to blog)

intrapersonal communication:
Regeneration :: Before you learn to clean up shit, you learn to swim in shit says:
1. personal journalling
a. For the sake of personal history
b. for the sake of forging identity
2. self expression (not just of feelings or thoughts, but also of opinions)

and lastly, exposure to internet/computers (but this point truly has me scratching my head, it seems completely inconsequential. What do y'all think? )

Changes to questions

Recent changes made.
Title remains "Blogging in Singapore"

Research questions changed to
What motivates Singaporeans (18-23) to blog?

Sub-questions
How does peer influence affect Singaporeans' motivation to blog?
How does the need for interpersonal communication affect Singaporeans to blog?
How does the need for intrapersonal communication affect Singaporeans to blog?
How does exposure/access to internet affect Singaporeans' motivation to blog?

PK out

Workload

Divison of labour goes like this...

Cover page - Eunice
Abstract - Yoon Lin
Introduction - Eunice
Literature Review - Everyone (around half a page each person)
Method - Eunice
Findings - Vivenne
Discussions / Conclusions - PK
References - Yoon Lin
Appendix - PK
Press Release - Yoon Lin
Powerpoint Presentation - PK
Compilation - PK

I didn't decide this, Eunice and Viv sitting across me did. We is a democratic people though, and if you don't like what you are supposed to do, just let us know. (us meaning viv and eunice heh heh heh)

Report Format

Hello all.
Report format is out.
After we split the workload, try (no don't try just do it) to do up the report in the following format so that we can organise the final report easier.


Introduction
Definitions/parameters
Research questions / subjects
Why you did the project / Why the topic?

Literature review
History of blogging
Motivation to blog
Why the growing popularity / preference for blogs
Implications of blogs

Method
Medium: In-depth interview
Profile of interviewees à who we interviewed, and why we chose them

Findings
Reason for blogging?
Peer influence / pressure
Interpersonal communication (reaching out to friends / other people)
. General others (general public)
. Particular others (specific groups of friends, etc)
Intrapersonal communication
Access of exposure to computers / internet

more links dee da dee

http://blog.holtz.com/
a shel of my former self - page contents mainly related to online PR, pretty interesting consider how it's a blog by itself

http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/marcelo/
technology, self and community - "think I've honestly made a contribution to Internet studies specifically and communication studies generally by showing how we can reacquaint ourselves, as an emerging discipline of communication, with our humanist roots" - jackpot, this guy's actually doing a thesis pretty similar to our topic. ANOTHER blog by itself.

http://blog.humlab.umu.se/therese/
emerging communications - mainly about CMC, also in blog format

http://www.newmediastudies.com/intro2004.htm
web studies - website about this book written by david gauntlett - talks about the internet in the first few paras, origins, etc. not very relevant to our studies. the interesting part comes further down the page, when he talks about going back to the basics of internet (primarily a communicative tool) and the rise of blogging. "The most striking thing about these recent debates is that it's all so … 1996! Blogging is a good old-style use of the internet, and thus we see just the same debates as when the first personal homepages were put on the Web in the early to mid 1990s. Those in favour see these things as 'democratic' and a chance for everyone to 'have their say'. The critics, usually professional print journalists who do not want to be usurped by the new technology, condemn the phenomenon as a sandpit for the rambling amateur."

Check out your CS111 notes...PAYDIRT!

Ok, not quite. But check through your stack of CS111 readings and you'll find quite a fair bit of material concerning the internet, and in particular a thesis by Tracy Loh called "The Internet and Interpersonal Communication: An exploratory study". Haven't read through it yet but it looks promising. And it'll be our first piece of non-digital research too. Hurrah!

More linkable joy

Yoon: Your links aren't working...

Anyway whoops, forgot to put mine here.
The most relevant link so far:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/classes/ics234cw04/nardi.pdf.

The rest:
http://www.stanford.edu/~aneesh/NewFiles/Jessica%20Yu.pdf.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/survey/blog/results.htm
http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml
http://cct.georgetown.edu/thesis/DavidHuffaker.pdf.

We can make it, people!!!

for lit review.. doesn't look good

The Blog Phenomenon
Beth's Contradictory Brain

the second one probably cant be used..

Puttin' a little spice innit!

Okay, here are the interview questions for Yoon and Eun (how cool is that, their names sound the same!!):

BLOGGING AND SINGAPORE
Interview Questions for bloggers:

Do you blog?
How long do you spend in a week blogging?
Do your friends blog?
Why did you start blogging?
Do your friends share your interests?
Do you and your friends discuss what you blog?
Do you feel like blogging once you read other’s blogs? If yes, what/why?
If you were not within easy reach of a computer would you still blog?
What is the main theme in your blog?
How do you feel when you blog?
What do you write most about?What mood makes you want to write?
Do you blog sometimes with any one person/group in mind?
What inhibitions/lack of inhibitions do you feel when you express yourself in your blog?
Do you post art/poetry/songs on your blog? If so, why? Is it your own work or do you cut and paste stuff you like? What do you hope get out of it?
How has your interaction with your friends changed since they/you/both of you started blogging?
How did you first find out about blogging?
How much better do you know your friends after you started blogging/reading your friends’ blogs?
How has it changed how you communicate with them in person?
Have you seen a different side of your friends emerging after you read their blogs? What is it like?
Do you feel there is adequate freedom of speech in Singapore?
Have you ever had anyone confront you about what you wrote in your blog?
To what extent do you consider your blog “private”?
Why do you think there are so many bloggers in Singapore?
Do you think bloggers should be fully responsible for what they blog? Do you feel the need to write responsibly?


And the list for PK and myself. This list needs a little work, it's kinda sparse. I think some of the questions from the list above can be pulled into the one below as well, questions like "Do you think bloggers should be fully responsible..." and "is there adequate freedom of speech". Will see to that in a bit. Anyway:

Questions for the ex-blogger:
Why did you stop blogging?
Why did u start to begin with?
Would you ever consider going back to blogging? Why? What would your blog be about?
Do your friends blog?
In the light of your experience do you recommend blogging?
Do you feel pressured at any time to blog? By whom? Why?

Questions for the one who doesn’t blog at all:
Do your friends blog?
Do you feel pressured at any time to blog? By whom? Why?
Why don’t you blog?
Have you ever wanted to blog?
What stopped you?
Could you ever be convinced to blog?
Do you feel pressured by your peers to blog?
How did the experience of your peers influence your decision not to blog?
Do you feel left out?