{"id":1279,"date":"2006-05-18T19:29:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2006-05-18T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T02:13:40","slug":"robin-roger-blog-newspapers-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/robin-roger-blog-newspapers-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Roger: Blog, Newspapers and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Roger&#8217;s Masters thesis, <em>&#8220;Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs,&#8221;<\/em> gets great electrons at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.news-record.com\/staff\/jrblog\/archives\/2006\/05\/blogs_create_co.html\">the Greensboro News and Record Editor&#8217;s Blog by John Robinson<\/a> and more from <a href=\"http:\/\/edcone.typepad.com\/wordup\/2006\/05\/blogs_and_newsp.html\">Ed Cone on his Word Up blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both note Robin&#8217;s conclusion (so I will too):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Findings suggest that the effects of high levels of community are cumulative; therefore, creating a blogging community can draw new readers &#8212; great news for newspaper marketers. Results from the study also suggest a virtuous cycle: frequent blog reading seems to lead to a sense of community, and vice versa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was lucky to have Robin in my class on blogging, community and citizen journalism last fall and to be on the committee along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubanxgiants.com\/\">Brian Carroll<\/a> for her thesis which was chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/directories\/faculty\/meyer.html\">Phil Meyer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.news-record.com\/content\/download\/467\/2239\/version\/1\/file\/Robin_Roger_Final_Thesis.pdf\">Here is Robin&#8217;s thesis [in PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Roger&#8217;s Masters thesis, &#8220;Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs,&#8221; gets great electrons at the Greensboro News and Record Editor&#8217;s Blog by John Robinson and more from Ed Cone on his Word Up blog. Both note Robin&#8217;s conclusion (so I will too): Findings suggest that the effects of high levels of community are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}