Key words/Terms:

1. Nano audiences- comprised of a blogger’s friends and family. They are rarely linked to by other blogs, and they more closely resemble personal diaries rather than the classic link-commentary mode of blogging.
2. Substantial- of considerable importance, size, or worth.
3. Blogosphere- personal websites and blogs collectively.
4. Laypersons- a nonordained member of a church.
5. Simultaneously- at the same time.

EX. The basketball game was broadcasted simultaneously on four different networks

• Intrinsic- belonging naturally; essential.

Summary:

In the article Imagining the Blogosphere: An introduction to the Imagined Community of Online Publishing, Graham Lampa of Hamline University combines the idea and terms of researchers, writers, and scholars and experiences in the real world to help define what is called “blogosphere”. The author goes further on the fact that blogosphere may feel like a real online community but, it is only imagined. A large portion of the blogs that were created, were then abandoned, and most bloggers are solitary except the deceptive community with other involved. When a person is taking in news or another type of content in what the author calls a “mass ceremony” they may feel like they are doing it with many other but they re alone in other ways as well. The author goes further on talking about what may be the most form of blogging is a news blog, where bloggers reflect and share upon real world events. Lampa stats that online news blogging has advantages over print blogging. Online news blogging has slack for personal connections and ideas rather than print blogging which is written by a paid person and is heavily edited so there is no opinion, heavenly shown. Another benefit of independent news blog compared to print news sources is that the amount of opinions and resources of blogging are unlimited according to the author.