EBRESPHERE A territorial community around blogs

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EBRESPHERE A territorial community around blogs
Daniel Gil Carme Pla London, July 5,
2007 International Conference Catalan Culture
and Identity in the Digital Era
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THE COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATION PROCESS

• 5 KEY EVENTS
• From April 2006 to February 2007

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Leaving behind the anonymity

• April 20, 2006
• A brief article in Diari de Tarragona
• Les Terres de l'Ebre s'enganxen a la revolució
  dels blocs a Internet.
• The article mentioned about 20 blogs.

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The First thematic talk

• December 1, 2006
• Atictes Conference
• La blocosfera ebrenca i el seu impacte en
  lopinió pública
• By Gustau Moreno, blogger and journalist

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From them to us bloggers start talking

• November 7, 2006
• Gathering talk at Ràdio Ebre
• Who is who in Terres de l'Ebre blogs
• 4 bloggers presenting local blogs

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The big party

• February 3, 2007
• 1ª Trobada de Blocaires Ebrencs
• EBREBLOC
• 101 blogs, implication of public entities,
• journalists and local mass media

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New ways, new paths

• February 25, 2007
• First literary show Joan Cid i Mulet
• talking-conference on weblogs as a literary
  phenomenon
• Interaction between bloggers and traditional
  literary authors

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Young, circular, self-organized community

• The element connecting this community
  geographically, culturally and socially
• Ebre river
• giving the name EBRESPHERE

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Ebresphere
Blogs
Blogs
Blogs
Blogs
Map source http//www.ebreguia.com/imagenes/img_t
erritori/mapa_TTEE.jpg Consult June 13th, 2007
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WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN EBRESPHERE?

• A first classification
• 6 Criteria

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Criteria

• Authorship
• Scope
• Adressee
• Format
• Institution or Entity
• Subject

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Big Picture

• A majority of Personal blogs
• gathered around exceptional Territorial/Local
  blogs
• with a dominance of Textual formats
• to discuss 3 main subjects
• Politics
• Education
• Music

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Some Facts

• 194 weblogs
• 161 in Catalan language
• 155 on Blogger platform
• 40 about politics
• 22 about education
• 10 about music

More details http//ebresfera.blogspot.com
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Further Questions

• Daniel Gil / daniel_at_bauenblog.info
  http//bauenblog.info
• Carme Pla / carme.pla_at_gmail.com
  http//carmepla.com/eng
• http//ebresfera.blogspot.com