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? )