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A Comarative Study of Independent Web Logs and U.S. Online News Sites during the Major Offensive of the Second Iraqi War
Abstract
This thesis compares weblogs to online news sites and describes the changes of
these outlets less in readership, rather the content, nature of outbound links,
and readability. Since the inception of free blogger tools, citizens can post
content on the Web as simple as sending email; circumventing levels of
censorship and editorializing common in online news organizations. And
certain weblogs challenge potential story ideas for big media, serving as a
testing ground for news worthy information, because journalists want to report
the news, they don't want to make it (big media meets the bloggers, 2004).
Roughly five years after the birth of this website format, 4.12 million weblogs
are hosted in the United States. Only 9.9% of active blogs link to traditional
news sites. Moreover, weblogs link to other sources than the 2,875 traditional
news sites (the blogging iceberg, 2003). This implies that Big Media is currently
underrepresented in the blogosphere, where individual recommendations and
frequency of in and outbound links can determine the level of readership.
Weblogs are a new communicative tool that can shape democratic deliberation
or become a corporate possession. At the same time, weblogs face credibility
trouble (Odag & Schreier, 2004) coupled with low readership, information
noise or user abandonment. Nevertheless, these relatively new information
delivery platforms are defining new modes of Web specific content
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