Blog as a way to understand adolescents

Autor	Bc. Eva Lusková , Mgr. Lukáš Blinka, Doc. PhDr. David Šmahel, Ph.D.
Organisation	Psychologický ústav AV ČR
Year	2008
Research type	study
Annotation	The paper focuses on psychological aspects of blogging in the period of early and middle adolescence – it deals with the motivation of bloggers, their benefits of blogging as well as with the subjects and objects of their communication via blogs. Semi-structured interviews with eight adolescent bloggers in the age between 13 and 17 years were conducted and analysed via grounded theory method. The results suggest that adolescents set up blogs with the intent to present themselves through their blogs in front of the peer readers. The peer readers give them social support and feedback which affects bloggers self-concept and self-esteem. Similarity in interests and opinions is also very important for adolescent relationships rising in the blogosphere. Furthermore, the particularity of pro ana blogs – a community of bloggers supporting themselves in pathological eating habits which may lead to anorexia - was mentioned. In our article, we present blogs as a possible tool which can contribute to understanding issues of the utmost importance for adolescents.
Keywords	adolescence, weblog, qualitative metodology, research on adolescents
Research type	qualitative
Start date	1. 1. 2008
End date	31. 12. 2008
Obor	AN Psychology
Note	Lusková, E., Blinka, L., & Šmahel, D. (2008). Blog jako cesta k porozumění dospívajícím. E-psychologie [online]. 2(3), 1−15 Dostupný z WWW: . ISSN 1802-8853
Email	134565@mail.muni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Psychologický ústav AV ČR, Veveří 97, Brno 60200
Organisation	Psychologický ústav AV ČR
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