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Blogging through conflict: sojourners in the age of social media

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

Pages 29 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841859

Published: 19 August 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Social media enables the creation of online communities across physical boundaries. Blogs, or weblogs, enable bloggers to interact with a range of followers. We sought to conduct a qualitative study of the nature of the interactions that emerge in a blog community whose members are experiencing the impacts of ongoing conflict. We chose the Iraqi blogging community as a case study and focused on investigating the role of intercultural interactions in shaping people's experiences during conflict. We found that intercultural interactions aided people by providing support, finding commonality, building a knowledge base, and in giving advice on restoring infrastructure. The intercultural interactions provided alternative views of an event constructed from diverse cultural perspectives. We found that the intercultural interactions we observed suggest a degree of intercultural competency within the blogosphere.

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Blogging through conflict: sojourners in the age of social media
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

August 2010

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DOI:10.1145/1841853

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Stanford University, USA
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Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Kyoto University, Japan
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International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
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Gary Olson
University of California-Irvine, USA

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Vieweg SHodges AGergle DMorris MBjørn PKonstan J(2016)Surveillance & Modesty on Social MediaProceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing10.1145/2818048.2819966(527-538)Online publication date: 27-Feb-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2818048.2819966
Rathnayake CSuthers D(2016)Dissidents Versus Allegiants on FacebookProceedings of the 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)10.1109/HICSS.2016.281(2246-2255)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2016
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