DIGC101 New Media and

Communication

Blogs
Week 4, Wednesday August, 19
“A diary posted in reverse chronological order…”
(Warschauer and Grimes, 2007).
‚Weblogs offer their users the
possibility to combine various
media into one format, increasing
the ‘bandwidth’ of the
communication.

Weblog authors are able to use

different technological features
(images, audio and video) to
express themselves, providing a
rich environment for ‘the
presentation of self’.

van Doorns, van Zoonen and Wyatt

(2007),
 Performance of the Self
‚In Goffman’s terms, the
person behind the
keyboard can be seen as
a ‘performer’ who acts
out a ‘character’.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/makelessnoise/108350133/
 Herring et al.
(2004) discuss how
a relatively new
communication
technology such as
the ‘weblog’ is
discursively
constructed by the
media as adult and
masculine. Herring
et al. (2004)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitchbuzz/3344251100/
Traditional Stereotypes
Gender & Identity

Credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

Don’t Underestimate the power of the link

The slashdot effect

The Everyday Self

Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

“I see dead blogs…”

Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

“Who the news belongs to…”
 The Cult of the Amateur
“Or on taste generally: No doubt, public intellectuals
like Habermas are not happy with the rise of
competition for the attention the public gives to his
words. Ah, for the good old days, when a handful of
writers got to tell the world how to think. How sad it is
that those writers now must compete with blogs.”

http://wiki.lessig.org/index.php?title=TheKeenReader

http://www.lessig.org/blog/2007/05/keens_the_cult_of_
the_amateur.html
Wilson v Bolt
 RSS
Google Reader
Aggregate Content
 BLOGROLL
Assemble a Blogroll: consider the theme - i.e. 10
blogs that you would consider reading at least
once per week o blogs you think are significant in
some way and/or connected to your project.
Aggregate the feeds of these blogs into your
Google Reader.
Then tweet or bookmark or email me your RSS
feed of your blog.
For next week…
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