Personal stories go worldwide: the ritual of storytelling through Weblogs.

The once private traditional written diary is shifting to an electronic storytelling tradition. Online diaries or weblogs are a growing phenomenon that scholars have ignored until recently. This qualitative project uses narrative and rhetorical analysis to focus on storytelling themes in weblogs, rituals in storytelling and the similarities and differences from traditional written diaries. In this study, 30 weblogs were chosen from three web domains: livejournal.com, blogger.com and diarest.net. The findings show that weblogs are filled with rich storytelling that emulates many qualities of traditional diaries. In general, weblogs authors are communicating stories online to an interactive mass audience and forming new rituals in a new electronic forum.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2004

Author dc:creator

• Johnson, Janet L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lambiase, Jacqueline
• Zavoina, Susan C.
• Broyles, Sheri

• Blogs.
• Storytelling.
• weblogs
• storytelling
• internet
• rituals
• online diaries

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Johnson, Janet L.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 56636086
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4601/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc4601

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc4601