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A blog or Web log is a publicly accessible diary or journal on a website in which at least one person, the blogger, posts issues, records results, or writes down thoughts. Often the core of a blog is a list of entries in chronological order. The blogger or publisher is responsible for the content, contributions are often written from a first-person perspective. A blog is for authors and reader an easy tool to cover all kinds of topics. Often, comments or discussions about an article are permitted. Thus, blogs serve as a medium to gather, share, and discuss information, ideas, and experiences.

History

The first weblogs appeared in the mid-1990s. They were called online diaries and were websites on which Internet users periodically made entries about their own lives. From 1996, services such as Xanga have been set up that enabled Internet users to set up easily their own weblogs.

In 1997 one of the first blogs was started that still exists. It was called Scripting News, set up by Dave...

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  • Blumenthal, M. M. (2005). Toward an open-source methodology. What we can learn from the blogosphere. Public Opinion Quarterly, 69(5, Special Issue), 655–669.

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  • Farrell, H., & Drezner, D. (2008). The power and politics of blogs. Public Choice, 134, 15–30.

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  • Gandomi, A., & Haider, M. (2015). Beyond the hype: Big data concepts, methods and analytics. International Journal of Information Management, 35, 137–144.

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  • Godbole, N., Srinivasaiah, M., & Skiena, S. (2007). Large-scale sentiment analysis for news and blogs. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM).

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  • Meraz, S. (2011). The fight for ‘how to think’: Traditional media, social networks, and issue interpretation. Journalism, 12(1), 107–127.

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  1. Macromedia University, Munich, Germany

    Ralf Spiller

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  1. School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Laurie A. Schintler

  2. School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Connie L. McNeely

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Spiller, R. (2018). Blogs. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_28-1

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