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"Elections" or "Selections" ? Blogging the Nigerian 2007 General Elections
Unformatted Document Text:  ... As  a result of these practices, the blogosphere being  both a network of interconnected  texts and  a manifestation   of  social  networks,  can  structure  attention   and  provide  social  capital. These  emergent qualities   are   based   upon   single   blogging   episodes   guided   by   rules   of   selection,   publication,   and networking   and   are   employed   in   strategies   of   information   management,   identity   management,   and relationship management (emphasis added). Not only is blogging framed by rules, relations and code, the weblog can be used as an agent of social change, and also as a means of information, identity, and relationship management. The analytical model Schmidt (2007) proposes, as represented below in Figure 1, is a plausible framework that has the potential of evolving into a systematically formalized architecture of blogging acts, both at the meta- and structural- levels. In other words, the model can be used to derive a formally specified algorithm for analyzing and representing blogging practices dynamically.    Figure 1: Blogging practices: Analytical model (Schmidt, 2007) 4 / 20

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... As  a result of these practices, the blogosphere being  both a network of interconnected  texts and  a
manifestation   of  social  networks,  can  structure  attention   and  provide  social  capital. These  emergent
qualities   are   based   upon   single   blogging   episodes   guided   by   rules   of   selection,   publication,   and
networking   and   are   employed   in   strategies   of   information   management,   identity   management,   and
relationship management (emphasis added).
Not only is blogging framed by rules, relations and code, the weblog can be used as an agent of social change, and also
as a means of information, identity, and relationship management.
The analytical model Schmidt (2007) proposes, as represented below in Figure 1, is a plausible framework that has the
potential of evolving into a systematically formalized architecture of blogging acts, both at the meta- and structural-
levels. In other words, the model can be used to derive a formally specified algorithm for analyzing and representing
blogging practices dynamically. 
 
Figure 1: Blogging practices: Analytical model (Schmidt, 2007)
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