Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs: The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments

Scholars draw more and more attention on the benefits of using blogs as virtual learning environments.Because the period 2006 -2007 was related in Romania to the emergence and unprecedented growth of blogs, we conducted a narrative analysis of online data, obtained during this period for the most popular Romanian blogs.By applying a qualitative-constructivist analysis of narrative data, we evidenced 5 popularity assessment criteria: (1) originality; (2) usefulness; (3) topicality; (4) subjectivity; (5) and coherence.Building on the identified criteria, we formulated recommendations for making blogs more efficient as virtual learning environments.