For my essay, I have chosen the article "Self-Presentation and Interaction in Blogs of Adolescents and Young
Emerging Adults" by Elizabeth Mazur and Laurie Kozarian. In this article, the authors analyzed 124 blogs to see how people, especially young adults, express themselves through digital composing. In their research (which included many calculations and percents) they find that young adults mainly have emotional-based writings that discuss many topics (family, romantic relationships, all that good stuff.) The argument of the article is just that: "findings indicate that most young person's write emotionally toned entries that focus on their daily lives," which in a sense, in my opinion, is true. I have written things, for example on Facebook, that deal with my personal life, and in this very blog, I have done the same thing. I think this will really help my paper and will help me find out who i truly am.
~Nikki
Sounds like you found a great article! Their findings kind of relate to the fact that most blogs are diary/journal based so that would explain the emotion-based entries. It will be interesting to see if that changes in the future as many companies develop blogs to take advantage of increased internet traffic. I like how you relate the research back to your personal life, maybe you could use that in your conclusion for the "call to action" for people to not only read and conduct this research to learn about the phenomenon, but to learn about themselves.
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