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2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

In the previous chapter, we have explained shortly about blog including the meaning of blog, the purposes of blog, the advantages and the disadvantages of blog. Somehow, to provide a clearer understanding of this study, we will go one by one and discuss a few topics related to this study. In terms of reading the articles about blogging, we came up with some issues that might help this study.

The history of blogging

The history of blogging as stated in Wikipedia the free encyclopedia began with the term of weblog which was coined by John Barger on 17 December 1997. As for the word of blog came from Peter Merholz who jokingly broke the word "weblog" to "blog" in his blog in April or May 1999. Next, Evan Williams used "blog" as both verb and noun. In the article 'The History Of Blogging Timeline' (wikipedia, ?) stated how blogging has developed over the years. From the beginning, it showed that blogging involved all level of people from students to politicians. Blogging offers a lot of genre and it depends to the blogger to pick their best interest. It can be political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, education blogs, personal blogs or even it can also be classical music blogs.

The blogging phenomenon among students nowaday

Based on homepage 'Blogging-The Phenomenon', nowadays the students tend to choose this element to distribute their points of view, share their typical social lifestyle, express their talent and at the same time gain some money from blogging. From the survey in 'Blogging-The Phenomenon' stated the percentage of student's involvement in blogging and the reason for their action whether they are blogger or non-blogger. Beside that, it also mentions when did they actually start the blogging and in what topics they prefer to publish in their blog. There is an article name 'Confession of a teen blogger' by Goh Chin Ying, 15 years old from Klang mentioned in her article how blogging in the right usage may bring good effects to the students especially the teenagers. Other than provide a new trend hobby to this age level, it can decrease the social problem among them and also help them to figure their inner true identity and discover their talent.

Blogging's effects

Somehow, in the other hand, blogging may cause big impact to someone individually or even to a big namely company. Blogging can result in a range of legal liabilities and other unforeseen consequences if the blogger neglects the important slight thing that accidentally cause and harm other party. Just to name a few of the effects of blogging refers to Wikipedia 'Legal and Social Consequences', blogging may interupt and cause troubles to the defamation or liability,employment, political dangers, and personal safety. There are a few types of misuse of blogging such as sedition, pornography and spam blogs refers to the homepage 'Blogging-The Phenomenon'. Sedition is one of the most prevalent problems on the internet. Many people, thinking that the internet offers great anonymity, show no regard for the feelings of others when writing posts on their blogs. As such, many a blog has been shut down due to a libel suit. As for pornography, a large portion of the web is composed of pornography. Blogs are not an exception to this sad norm. Many a blogger posts pornographic photographs on his blog, with the free hosting of photos and the perceived anonymity encouraging him or her to do so. While for the spam blogs are blogs composed entirely of meaningless posts designed to promote a company or product, or to waste space on any given server. Spam Blogs, just like spam email are an unavoidable irritation on the internet.

Blogging's purposes

Basically, this technology provides us to a better life and faster management in our daily life. Blogging offers purposes especially in communication, keep in touch and money making. Communication of ideas, opinions or news is one of the main applications of blogging, be it between a small group of people, or with the general blogosphere. Bloggers typically create blogs to communicate with others news regarding a given activity, such as soccer, or about their everyday lives For example, a blog on soccer could talk about everything from the strengths and weaknesses of players, to favourite teams and even to the financial aspect of the game. A blog can be created on any topic desired, from sports to arts and in some cases politics. Blogging is a form of communication, and this is the primary use of any given blog. Keeping in touch means a nother form of communication to keep tracking with others around oneself. Oftentimes, one finds oneself distanced from a friend or family member. Hence, some people create blogs to record interesting happenings in their lives such as to share it with this distanced member. While for the money making, b logs can be viable avenues of moneymaking. As with any other website, blogs commonly include advertisements, and other forms of moneymaking activities. Many popular bloggers use such means to profit from their blogs, as their fans will inevitably come across these advertisements while reading their blogs. Google provides a service it terms ‘AdSense’, which is a service which allows users to put ads by google on their websites, and get paid by google for every click they receive. \
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