Gerd Stodiek

What Missing the Blog Means

Panic and a sense of detachment among readers? Many didn’t know where to look for their daily news. Others felt isolated and disconnected from, again, others. And because the basic human communication need is to know about the other, isolation and panic are two possible outcomes.

Blogs and Digital Culture

Weblogs link content.

To and about cultures, news, studies, thoughts, concepts, immediate reality, and practically all digitally inter-connected spheres. They allow glimpses into ambigious time and space coordinates, mostly personal and opinionated they speak out and invite to understand, define forms of digital being – enabling the self to re-think itself.

Drudge Factor Re-Visited

“This is the most exciting moment in the history of news. Anyone from anywhere can cover anything. And send it out to everyone”
– Matt Drudge in his Manifesto.

News as Commodity

Some recent thoughts or what Torill Mortensen claims, weblogs “are changing the way we think about thinking.”

An old saying, old news is no news still holds ground, despite communication scholars concerns with a definition of news and less with the question of what is not news. A directed report about a supposed event is inherently information.

Weblog Credibility at G.O.R. Conference

At the final presentation, most inspiring, because of my own research relevance, Odag and Schreier from the International University Bremen conducted a study on the credibility of media reports during the Iraqi War 2003.