LiveJournaler

English Etymology From en LiveJournal er occupation. Noun en Internet A user of the social networking service LiveJournal. en The Advocate 2006 34 “It sounds a little odd, but my first gay kiss, my first gay bar experience, my first gay friend—all a result of LiveJournal,” he says with a laugh. “And all with LiveJournalers.” en w:Susan Herring; et al. article 2007 quoted in Paola Vettorel Bloggers as ELF users English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking: Blogging Practices De Gruyter Mouton 2014 section 1 (LiveJournal.com), subsection 4 (Languages on LJ) 103 978-3-11-033600-9 Languages thus seemed to be employed also to a symbolic function, i.e. not necessarily in connection to the bloggers’ level of language proficiency: “the frequency of this practice suggests that many LiveJournalers, even those who lack the linguistic or non-verbal means to interact directly with speakers of other languages, are aware that LJ is a cosmopolitan environment, and orient to that fact, albeit superficially” (Herring et al. 2007: n.p.). en w:Anastasia Goodstein Diaries Go Digital Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Griffin March 2007 section “What Is a Blog?”, subsection “The Teen Blogging Landscape” 29 There isn’t definitive research on the differences between LiveJournal users and Xanga users, but the perception is that Xanga skews younger and is more popular with Asian teens while LiveJournalers tend to be more artsy or “emo.” en Aldon Hynes A Coder Becomes a Political Activist Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics section “Discovering Dean: “The Real Thing”” Boulder, Colo.; London w:Paradigm Publishers 2008 88 978-1-59451-485-2 Unfortunately, there weren’t enough LiveJournalers in my immediate area to have a Meetup, and it didn’t seem worth it to travel down to New York City for a LiveJournalers Meetup. en w:Cory Doctorow Little Brother New York, N.Y. Tor 29 April 2008 2010 147 LiveJournalers love quizzes. What kind of hobbit are you? Are you a great lover? What planet are you most like? Which character from some movie are you? What's your emotional type? They fill them in and their friends fill them in and everyone compares their results. Harmless fun. en Rebecca Bley RL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online Life Mary Kirby-Diaz Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom Jefferson, N.C.; London w:McFarland & Company 2009 part 2 (Sociological Perspectives on Fandoms), chapter section ““Opt-In Filters,” Pseudonyms, and the Role of the Audience” 58 Many LiveJournalers choose not to use real names when discussing people online, instead electing to assign pseudonyms or just initials. en Ted Gaiser; Anthony Schreiner The World of Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis and Websites Jason Hughes SAGE Internet Research Methods SAGE Library of Research Methods IV (Research ‘On’ and ‘In’ the Internet – Investigating the Online World) SAGE Publications 2012 79 Specifying age groups helped ensure variation of age within the sample. This is important in light of suggestions that most bloggers are between the ages of 13 and 19 (Bortree, 2005; Henning, 2003) – a trend that is also reflected in the demographic characteristics of LiveJournal users. These criteria were met by using LiveJournal’s advanced search feature. For example, a search would be performed for LiveJournalers from Melbourne between the ages of 30–40 who had updated in the last month (at 4 April 2006, such a search produces about 270 blogs). en Alexandra Franzen You’re Going to Survive w:Mango Publishing 2017 978-1-63353-680-7 Every LiveJournaler had their own style. Some people wrote exclusively about one topic. Others wrote about all kinds of things. en Lena Buford A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community Batsheva Ben-Amos; Dan Ben-Amos The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life w:Indiana University Press 2020 437 9780253046963 TheFerrett is the fifth-most popular LiveJournaler of all time as of July 2016. Synonyms en LJer