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Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories

A blog quality model has been proposed for bloggers to promote readers satisfaction. However, the model does not determine whether readers consider some quality criteria important, particularly with respect to different blog categories. In this paper, we employed a Rasch analysis to rank the importa...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira, Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim
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Language:English
Published: IGI Global 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37969/2/Importance%20analysis%20of%20a%20blog%20quality%20model%20for%20criteria%20and%20families%20in%20different%20blog%20categories.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.379692015-12-29T09:33:23Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37969/ Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim A blog quality model has been proposed for bloggers to promote readers satisfaction. However, the model does not determine whether readers consider some quality criteria important, particularly with respect to different blog categories. In this paper, we employed a Rasch analysis to rank the importance of blog quality criteria for the Personal Diary, Socio-political Commentary, Humor/Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Technology blog categories. The authors identified the most important quality criteria and families for each category. The authors discovered that (1) the importance of quality criteria and/or families depends on the particular category with which a reader engages; (2) some quality criteria and/or families are more important for some categories but less important for others; and (3) certain quality criteria and/or families are equally important for some categories but not for others. The authors provide empirical evidence of the most important criteria bloggers and evaluators can focus on when they examine different blog categories. A blog quality model has been proposed for bloggers to promote readers satisfaction. However, the model does not determine whether readers consider some quality criteria important, particularly with respect to different blog categories. In this paper, a Rasch analysis to rank the importance of blog quality criteria for the Personal Diary, Socio-political Commentary, Humor/Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Technology blog categories. The authors identified the most important quality criteria and families for each category. The authors discovered that (1) the importance of quality criteria and/or families depends on the particular category with which a reader engages; (2) some quality criteria and/or families are more important for some categories but less important for others; and (3) certain quality criteria and/or families are equally important for some categories but not for others. The authors provide empirical evidence of the most important criteria bloggers and evaluators can focus on when they examine different blog categories. IGI Global 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37969/2/Importance%20analysis%20of%20a%20blog%20quality%20model%20for%20criteria%20and%20families%20in%20different%20blog%20categories.pdf Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira and Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim (2014) Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories. International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 6 (3). pp. 1-41. ISSN 1942-9010; ESSN: 1942-9029 http://www.igi-global.com/article/importance-analysis-blog-quality-model/122010 10.4018/ijvcsn.2014070102
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description A blog quality model has been proposed for bloggers to promote readers satisfaction. However, the model does not determine whether readers consider some quality criteria important, particularly with respect to different blog categories. In this paper, we employed a Rasch analysis to rank the importance of blog quality criteria for the Personal Diary, Socio-political Commentary, Humor/Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Technology blog categories. The authors identified the most important quality criteria and families for each category. The authors discovered that (1) the importance of quality criteria and/or families depends on the particular category with which a reader engages; (2) some quality criteria and/or families are more important for some categories but less important for others; and (3) certain quality criteria and/or families are equally important for some categories but not for others. The authors provide empirical evidence of the most important criteria bloggers and evaluators can focus on when they examine different blog categories. A blog quality model has been proposed for bloggers to promote readers satisfaction. However, the model does not determine whether readers consider some quality criteria important, particularly with respect to different blog categories. In this paper, a Rasch analysis to rank the importance of blog quality criteria for the Personal Diary, Socio-political Commentary, Humor/Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Technology blog categories. The authors identified the most important quality criteria and families for each category. The authors discovered that (1) the importance of quality criteria and/or families depends on the particular category with which a reader engages; (2) some quality criteria and/or families are more important for some categories but less important for others; and (3) certain quality criteria and/or families are equally important for some categories but not for others. The authors provide empirical evidence of the most important criteria bloggers and evaluators can focus on when they examine different blog categories.
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author Muhammad Zain, Zuhaira
Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim
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Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
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title Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
title_short Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
title_full Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
title_fullStr Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
title_full_unstemmed Importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
title_sort importance analysis of a blog quality model for criteria and families in different blog categories
publisher IGI Global
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37969/2/Importance%20analysis%20of%20a%20blog%20quality%20model%20for%20criteria%20and%20families%20in%20different%20blog%20categories.pdf
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http://www.igi-global.com/article/importance-analysis-blog-quality-model/122010
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