The Blogging Community

According to Graves (2007) offers a point of view whereby community is based on a particular culture where communication is key to create a reality that can be maintained, repaired and transformed. By applying this to a blog, the blogging community was hence created. A community that shares information whether personal or of interest with others through the cyberspace of blogging creates a sense of belonging from one to another. White (2006) suggests that the blogging community is broken up into three parts, the one blog centric community, the topic centric community, and the boundaried community. White further elaborates that the one blog centric community is a community that revolves around the blogger(s) and the commentators. Tools such as Wordpress, Blogspot help create a domain for these communities to exist. On the other hand, the topic centric community is a community based on the topic at hand rather than the personal profile of the blogger(s) whom uses hyperlinks to link each other to information regarding the topic. Lastly, White states that the boundaried community are members that register and 'join' a community and are given the chance to create their very own blog. Such sites include, discussion board, myspace.com, social networking features, and etc.

As one can see from Kenny Sia's blog, it is a one blog centric community as the commentators are socializing within the means of the blog. What is written in the author's blog, is to my opinion, pure gibberish which is there for the sake of writing something for his community to comment upon. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that, the important component of this community is the identity of the blogger himself as the community he builds revolves around him.

Reference List
Graves, L 2007, 'The Affordances of Blogging : A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects,' Journal of Communication Inquiry, vol. 31, no. 4, pp.331 - 346, viewed 10 April 2012, <http://jci.sagepub.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/content/31/4/331.full.pdf+html>

White, N 2006, 'Blogs and Community - Launching a new Paradigm For Online Community?,' The Knowledge Tree, edition 11, viewed 10 April 2012, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>