[Air-L] HCI - Blogging meets literary analysis: why people read blogs

[Richard Forno]

First picked up via MSM article:

Blogging meets literary analysis: why people read blogs

By John Timmer | Published: April 09, 2008 - 10:20PM CT

The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but
studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a
simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical
level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the
existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. A group at
the University of California-Irvine, however, decided to approach the
question from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the
humans involved were blog readers. Mixing in a dose of literary theory
provided some interesting insights into how readers view and define blogs.

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MSM article continues:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-blogging-meets-literary-theory
-in-new-analysis.html

The study's authors kindly provided Ars with a copy. It was presented at the
Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Conference, and is available
through their website.

The  ACM link (reg' reqd)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1357054.1357228