Comments on: An attempt to define blogging as a genre

By: Blog Analysis Assignment « English 20833: Literacies in American Life

Blog Analysis Assignment « English 20833: Literacies in American Life — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:52:23 +0000

[...] 2.Choose one blog from the above list to analyze at more length. Have someone in your group take notes on the following areas: How would you describe the rhetorical situation of the blog? Can you easily find information about the author(s), and if so, what did you learn? Who seems to be the target audience, and what makes you think this? Read a couple of the blog entries – what tone does the author(s) take? How long are the entries, on average? How is the blog set up? What is prominent? What is your eye drawn to? What kinds of areas are there on the blog? What visual elements do you notice? colors, schemes, pictures, video, etc. What additional conclusions can you draw, given your observations? 3.Then read this short blog entry about blog genre: “An Attempt to Define Blogging as a Genre” [...]

By: Blog Analysis Assignment « English 20803-074

Blog Analysis Assignment « English 20803-074 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:37:51 +0000

[...] 2.Choose two blogs from the above list to analyze at more length. Take notes on the following areas: How would you describe the rhetorical situation of the blog? Can you easily find information about the author(s), and if so, what did you learn? Who seems to be the target audience, and what makes you think this? Read a couple of the blog entries – what tone does the author(s) take? How long are the entries, on average? How is the blog set up? What is prominent? What is your eye drawn to? What kinds of areas are there on the blog? What visual elements do you notice? colors, schemes, pictures, video, etc. What additional conclusions can you draw, given your observations? 3.Then read these two blog entries about blog genre: “Thoughts on Genre: Blogs and Genre” “An Attempt to Define Blogging as a Genre” [...]

By: A blogagem como gênero jornalístico « Webmanário

A blogagem como gênero jornalístico « Webmanário — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:05:53 +0000

[...] Agora Paul Bradshaw, do Online Journalism Blog, insinua a possibilidade de a blogagem em si entrar no rol das vertentes jornalísticas capazes de merecerem o carimbo de gênero. [...]

By: Daniel Bennett

Daniel Bennett — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:51:06 +0000

@Neil There are. Some people are doing it. David Brake at LSE is one example.

By: Neil McIntosh

Neil McIntosh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:17:41 +0000

Paul – a really interesting post which I've replied to, at some length, on my blog (where else?) http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2008/11/13/all...” target=”_blank”>http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2008/11/13/all... In brief: I think demanding comments takes it too far, although links are important (but still not necessary). I think blogging now heavily influences the way in which stuff is written, which makes defining blogs in strict terms rather troublesome.

By: We're all blogging now | Completetosh.com, by Neil McIntosh

We're all blogging now | Completetosh.com, by Neil McIntosh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:14:53 +0000

[...] blogger and academic Paul Bradshaw asks if we can define blogging without referring to technology. That’s a good idea – for us, [...]

By: Charlotte Carey

Charlotte Carey — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:58:48 +0000

Aologies assumed the audience bit with the 'links, and comments'.

By: Dilyan

Dilyan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:45:14 +0000

Just this morning I moaned that blog-post quality often suffered due to there being no editors in blogging. Then I thought about it and came to the conclusion that, in an ideal world, a blog's commenters will be its editors. Just hours after that thought occurred to me, it was confirmed by someone alerting me about an error in one of my posts via a comment. This is to say I completely agree that "Blogging, above all else, is conversational." Also, in my view, its two key features are comments and links (in that order).

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:59:50 +0000

Paul – when your book on Journoblogging tops the NYT bestseller lists, I'll let you know where to post my cheque! @Daniel – there's some interesting academic work to be done exploring the views of people who both blog and tweet (and perhaps use Facebook etc). How do they conceive of these different spaces? Do they behave differently in each? Do they apply different conceptions of privacy, even though all are essentially public? etc, etc

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:28:59 +0000

Journoblogging sounds a good way to focus this.