A blog is a modern internet phenomenon which has been warmly received by Persian speakers. The first Persian Blogs were written about ten years ago and today Persian is the fourth language of the world with the greatest number of Blogs. It is anticipated that this phenomenon will turn into the most important media, bringing about changes in all areas including language, society, culture and politics. The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of Persian Blogs and the linguistic problems faced by Persian bloggers and to offer solutions to these problems in an attempt to avoid damage to Persian language. The most important characteristics of Persian Blogs include: using a simple language, writing in the first person, showing a tendency toward humor, writing briefly, showing a tendency toward colloquial language, using various styles, and avoiding the passive voice. The most important linguistic problems include: confusing orthography, ambiguities, indifference to grammatical rules, frequent taboo and street words, abundance of misspellings and foreign words.

This article aims to analyze motivations behind social sciences blog posts citing journal articles in order to find out whether blog citations of scholarly journal articles are good indicators for the societal impact of research. A random sample of 300 social sciences blog posts (out of 1,233 blog posts) from Research Blogging published between 01/01/2012 to 18/06/2014 subjected to content analysis. An existing categorization scheme was used and modified inductively. The 300 blog posts had 472 references including 424 journal articles from 269 different journals. Sixty-one (%22.68) of all journals cited were from the category of social sciences and most of the journals with high frequency were highly cited general science journals such as PNAS and Science. Seventy-five percent of all journals were referenced only once. The average age of articles cited was 5.8 years. The most frequent (38, %12.67) motivation was to ‘neutrally presenting details of a study’. Overall, social science Blogs were rather subject-oriented than articleoriented. This means that a considerable number of blog posts were not driven simply by writing about an article, instead bloggers tend to write about their subject of interest and use references to support their argument. The study shows the potential of blog citations as an altmetric measure and as a proxy for assessing the research impact.

In developing countries need to provide some new and effective strategies to improve teaching and learning processes. The purpose of these educational institutions is preparing teachers and students and educating them to effectively participate in future classes. Today’s traditional classroom courses unlike last will be equipped devices such as data projectors and playback devices that have audio and video content. Words such as electronic banking, electronic government, electronic books and electronic mail, electronic learning, virtual universities, distance learning, electronic journals and electronic library to be heard everywhere. Today e-learning tools include: web browsers, web writing, the e-mail, virtual world tools, mobile learning, podcast, etc, among these Blogs as one of the most popular and powerful tools for e-learning environment currently is shaping educational, political, social, cultural and man today. Blog technology is more user-friendly day to day and popular due to its ease in creating and managing a blog. Many bloggers, teachers, writers and Authors, and even students use Blogs to exchange knowledge and scientific achievements and their research and even released a platform for expressing personal opinions. Today, classrooms in developed countries and developing extensive use of Blogs have become a necessity. Through Blogs, Parents will be notified curriculum issues and even his attendance students. In this paper we survey the importance and application of various Blogs as an educational tool in modern educational systems.

Exponential growth of information in the cyberspace alongside rapid advancements in its related technologies has created a new mode of competition between societies to gain information dominance in this critical and invaluable space. It has thus become quite critical to all stakeholders to play a leading and dominant role in generation of information and monitoring of voluminous information uploaded to this space. The dominant role of a stakeholder in cyberspace provides him with new opportunities and builds up his capacity for passive defense in the political, ethical, scientific, educational and recreational fields. However, to gain dominance in the monitoring of vast amount of information in cyberspace requires new techniques and approaches for online monitoring quite different from traditional ones. Concerned with the latter case, we limit our focus in this paper on Blogs as an important part of the cyberspace social media and present a new technique for online detection of changes in Blogs. We show that our technique works favorably compared to techniques that require cooperation and synchronization between information providers. This is achieved by providing a new architecture and restricting the search for changes in high volumes of Blogs only to changes in the RSS (Rich Site Summary) of each blog.

Introduction and problematic of research: The major objective of this paper is to study and shows how the frequency of blogging has been reduced in post-2010 period. And this, in turn, has resulted in the abandonment of blogging in more recent years. A historical review of the issue indicates that since 2001, when the first Iranian blog appeared on the internet, blogging received a remarkable and enthusiastic body of users among Iranians. Subsequently, the Persian language became the fourth global blogosphere. This process, however, did not continue something that needs to be academically addressed. An empirical field research was launched in order to explore the main reasons behind blogging and its demise and or its abandonment. Here in this paper, I will explore the reasons for abandonment of blogging. I will use a psycho-sociological analysis of the characteristics of bloggers to account for the abandonment of blogging. Theoretical framework: I used three theoretical approaches to address the issue, as follows: first, I used the theories concerned with the psychology of communication and social psychology (i. e., Lipiansky, 2005 and 1992; Picard and Edmond, 1991). Second, I used social philosophy approach (i. e., Honneth, 2007) to combine it with psychological factors involved in blogging, and finally, I used the theories that are concerned with social networking (i. e., Merklé , 2011 Lardellier, 2010). Here, psychology of communication played the major role to outline the theoretical background of the paper on which the theoretical framework of this study was based. I would like to emphasize that being recognized plays an important role in identity construction of the bloggers and if that is not met through blogging there is no reason for the blogger to continue blogging. Lipiansky (2005) and Picard and Edmond (1991) show that for the most part, subjective identity is shaped through contact with the others. Thus, the search for recognition is one of the fundamental dynamics of interpersonal relationships/communication. Lipiansky (2005) identifies five principles identity needs, the existence, valorization and integration of which are addressed. Cooley creates the concept of looking-glass self, stating that a person's self grows out of social interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of the others. According to Mead, judgment of others plays an important role in self construction. Axel Honneth (2007) identifies three spheres of interaction which are connected to the three “ patterns of recognition” necessary for an individual’ s development of a positive relation-to-self. These are love, rights, and solidarity. Thus, he speaks about the need of recognition and the individual needs that his or her abilities are recognized. This recognition brings social esteem for him. The third part of the theoretical framework concerns theories of social network on the internet in communication studies. They show how theses social networks (Facebook and Google Reader in our research) help the user to create a relationship or save it. Methodology: To complete our investigations, we selected two technologies that will enable us to collect the needed information. First, to study the content of messages sent by bloggers, I made a manual thematic content analysis of six months of thirty Blogs and their comments, a technique that promotes a systematic and objective description of the content of the texts. Secondly, to get deeper with the observations and analysis of the blog posts, I conducted some semi-structured interviews with the authors in summer 2007. In 2011, we conducted second round of interview to know des reasons of abandonment of blogging. We had five criteria to choose the Blogs: 1) the blog should be active 2) it should be written in Persian 3) self-expression: he or she must have spent the majority of his or her posts to explain his or her life. 4) the reader must be able to comment on the posts, 5) the blog must have at least one year of seniority. Findings and Discussion: First, we show that the bloggers begin to write their Blogs in order to meet some psycho-social needs: need of recognition and affirmation. The bloggers affirm that receiving comments is one of the principal reasons of blogging. They also obtain recognition via the comments of their readers. Thus, the need of existing and valorization are satisfied. Furthermore, they satisfy the need of integration via friendship circles. The satisfaction of the identity need makes the blogger to continue blogging. Then, we show if these identity needs are not satisfied, bloggers abandon their blog or make use of other means of cyber space. This research shows that the different elements as filtering, control and social pressure and other emerging media like social networks play a role in the abandonment of the blog, because they make the blogger unable to meet their identity needs or they allow to better meeting them. Thus, three principal reasons of this phenomenon are technical problems, social pressure and social network on the internet. The technical problems such as filtering and the internet flow prevent the readers to access simply to Blogs, so the number of readers decreases and bloggers miss the motivation to continue blogging. The control and the pressure from entourage as family, friends or colleagues is the second reason. These factors lead the bloggers self-censorship and finally the abandonment of blog. At least, the social network on the internet gives the best opportunity if self-expression to the user who is able to receive comments and create relationships. Facebook and Google Reader are two social networks used by surveyed bloggers. According to them theses social networks have more advantage compared to blog, can easily replace blog and satisfy the identity need.