print email comment close Formation of Norms in a Blog Community URL: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/formation_of_norms.html Description: "This paper reports on a study of a community of blogs [Knitting Bloggers NetRing] devoted to knitting and compares the community's stated normative guidelines with actual practice." It looks at demographics, posting rules and standards, topics of blog postings (such as personal knitting projects), and common knitting blog features. From Into the Blogosphere, a collection of scholarly essays on blogs edited by the University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric. Author: Wei, Carolyn Publisher: University of Minnesota Extra Keywords weblog Library of Congress Subject Headings: Blogs Blogs -- Standards Social norms LII Database Information: Record 19283 created by Jennifer English on 10/10/2005 Last modification on 11/01/2007 Published: 10/13/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19283