Desperately seeking sameness: the processes and pleasures of identification in women’s diary blog reading

摘要: The Internet offers a plethora of venues for autobiographical self-representation: webcams, personal websites, blogs. There is much research on self-representation online, whereas very little has focused the consumption online self-representation. This article focuses act reading diary Who are actual readers specific blog and what values do they place event reading? What draws them to site in first mechanisms make return? To attempt uncover practices involved weblogs I have conducted an explorative web survey “how/when/why we read weblogs” four independent sites kept by women their 30s. these blogs seem be severely circumscribed notions sameness: based gender, age, living, race/ethnicity, educational level. Readers report being drawn rhythm serial possibilities o...