Emerging Genres Web Paper 3
The Practice of Blogging: A Personal and Academic Perspective
Submitted by Jessy on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 9:38pm.
The Online Journal as a Separate Entity from the Blog
Submitted by Louisa Amsterdam on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 4:34pm.Louisa Amsterdam
English 209: Emerging Genres
The Online Journal as Separate from the Blog
The Blog as Emerging, Evolving Genre
Submitted by M. Gallagher on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 10:51am.The Blog as Emerging, Evolving Genre
The Blogging Identity
Submitted by Christina Harview on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 10:40am.The use of a constructed blogging identity has recently become high fashion in the computer world. With computers between the faces of those who converse online, we can create a veil to conceal the truth, a mask to construct a new truth, or a magnifying glass to focus in on whatever we please. In this paper, I will discuss the nature, use-value, and appeal of a constructed blogging identity. With references to two specific blogs, I will talk about how bloggers perceive their personal blogging identity, how it constrains them, and what it tells us about the nature of internet communication.
“A Document in Madness, Thoughts and Rembrance Fitted.”
Submitted by Alexandra Funk on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 9:45am."A Document inMadness, Thoughts and Rembrance Fitted."
-Shakspeare: HamletIV, v, 155
Recently I have become interested in another topic that Iknow little to nothing about. Over the past few weeks, my Emerging Genres classhas been studying a modern phenomenon: the blog. The more I read about blogs,the more I felt like I had seen something like them before. It wasn't longafter that I realized how closely the modern blog, especially when made tocreate a community, resembles the Bryn Mawr College Backsmoker Diaries.
Blogs as the downfall of paper media
Submitted by Marina Gallo on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 12:25am.Marina Gallo
Professor Dalke
Emerging Genres
Paper 3
April 26, 2008
Blogs as the Downfall of Paper Media.
The personal blog as an archive of the emerging self
Submitted by Hannah Mueller on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 3:41pm.
To explain the proliferation of personal blogs as a new genre, it has
been suggested that "the generic exigence that motivates bloggers is
related less to the need for information than to the self and the
relations between selves" (Miller, Shepherd). In other words, people
write personal blogs because they are interested in getting to know
themselves by writing and by communicating with others through writing.
The blog, then, is an antidote for two different kinds of alienation.
On one hand, the blog brings diverse people together in conversation,
expanding what Kate Thomas described to us as the "Incredible Shrinking
Public Sphere." On the other hand, the blog brings writers closer to
