A Users’ Perspective on Academic Blogging: Case Study on a Romanian Group of Students

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Author(s): Mihai Deac (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)and Ioan Hosu (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 17
Source title: Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania)and Camelia Cmeciu (Danubius University of Galati, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2851-9.ch009

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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There has been much research dedicated to the use of blogs in higher education, but a great deal of its enthusiasm is based on data that have the potential to be distorted by social desirability. The current chapter attempts a more balanced look at the use of educational blogs, taking into account the shortcomings, as well as the benefits of their proliferation amongst students. The authors write from the perspective of the blog users. Although their feedback is mostly positive, user behavior is also affected by fear of peer appraisal, lack of engagement, lack of trust, or unwillingness to share knowledge or to debate. In order to support our argumentation, the authors use traffic data from the educational blog “blogdeseminar,” survey data from a convenience sample of Romanian students, and qualitative data from 11 interviews.

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