TY - JOUR AU - Lomborg, Stine PY - 2009/04/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Navigating the blogosphere: Towards a genre-based typology of weblogs JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 14 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v14i5.2329 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2329 SP - AB - The personal weblog is a continuously evolving genre of online communication in which bloggers and readers create diverse social spaces for conversation and self-expression. This article addresses a conceptual gap in the literature, namely how to distinguish the personal weblog from other types of weblogs. The author develops a typological framework for classification of weblogs in three dimensions: content, directionality, and style, and uses the typological space to propose a working definition of the personal weblog and discuss it as a distinct sub-genre. ER -