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Hello.

My name is Ana. I live in Germany. I like it here.

Fruit
I like apples.

The beginning of Science Blogs
In the first years of the 21st century, the first scientists using the medium, began systematically using weblog to identify scientific and political topics and to comment on their point of view. With the foundation of the Scienceblogs.com platform in 2006, through the magazine Seed, the scientific web diaries became independent for the first time as a widely perceived genre of science communication. The American science blogs established themselves as a visible starting point and pacemaker for scientific blog culture, that is still defined today through common claims and ideals. However, despite of its importance, the platform was only a small part of the scientific blog sphere at all times.

Science Blogs in Germany
In German-speaking countries, the blogs concentrated relatively quickly in the two major platforms Scienceblogs.de and SciLogs.de, both raised in mid 2007. Independent science blogs still play a comparatively small role for the blog sphere today. That is because in this country, for scientists it is still uncommon to write popularly about science for a wide audience. The most important reason for the strong concentration in the German-speaking area is the comparatively small market of German native speakers, while the predominant majority of worldwide internet users do read and write in English. Because of that there are no comparable broadly diversified German-language science blogs scenes like in the English-speaking sphere. In addition, scientists internationally communicate in English and are therefore inclined to communicate with each other in this language. That's why German-language science blogs mostly appeal to the non-research public.

What motivates Science-blogging?
In the intrnet, nobody knows you are a dog.

Science blogs can perform a variety of functions. In addition to opportunities for science to be opened up to society, the science blog can also be used to make one's own scientific subject area visible to colleagues in science. Consequently science blogs offer an opportunity to make contact with colleagues as well as with the public sphere.

Characteristics
Science blogs differ in their voice representations, points of view, and content orientation.

Wissenschafts-Blog
Der Wissenschaftsblog (oder auch Science-Blog)

Wissenschaftsblog als Format der Wissenschaftskommunikation
Wissenschaftsblogger schreiben für die Öffentlichkeit über Wissenschaft.

Was motiviert den Science-Blog?
Wissenschaftsblogs (oder auch Science-Blogs) können vielfältige Funktionen erfüllen. Neben Möglichkeiten der Öffnung der Wissenschaft gegenüber der Gesellschaft, kann über den Science-Blog auch das eigene wissenschaftliche Fachgebiet für Wissenschaftskollegen sichtbar gemacht werden. Somit bietet der Wissenschaftsblog eine Möglichkeit, sowohl zu Fachkollegen, als auch zur Öffentlichkeit Kontakt herzustellen.