NetDynam 2.0

Title: The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis

Series Title: Continuum Discourse Series

Publication Year: 2009

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd

http://www.continuumbooks.com

Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=132398&SearchType=Basic

Editor: Greg Myers

Hardback: ISBN:  9781847064134 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 150.00

Hardback: ISBN:  9781847064134 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 75.00

Paperback: ISBN:  9781847064141 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 24.99

Paperback: ISBN:  9781847064141 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 44.99

Abstract:

Blogs and Wikis have not been with us for long, but have made a huge impact
on society.  Wikipedia is the best known exemplar of the wiki, a
collaborative site that leads to a single text claimed by no-one; blogs, or
web-logs, have exploded into the mainstream through novelisations, film
adaptations and have gathered huge followings. Blogs and wikis also serve
to provide a coherent basis for a discourse analysis of specific web
language.

What makes these forms distinctive as genres, and what ramifications does
the technology have on the language?  Myers looks at how blogs and wikis:

*allow for easier than ever publication

*can claim to challenge institutional hierarchies

*provide alternate perspectives on events

*exemplify globalization

*challenge demarcations between the personal and the public

*construct new communities and more

Drawing on a wide range of popular blogs and wikis, the book works
alongside an author blog – http://thelanguageofblogs.typepad.com/ – that
contains regularly updated links, references and a glossary.  An essential
textbook for upper level undergraduates on linguistics and language studies
courses, it elucidates, informs and offers insights into a major new type
of discourse. This coursebook includes a companion website for student and
lecturer use.

it’s the blog on “the language of blogs” which appears to be a very good resource, with a lot of links to recent work on blog research, other blogs related to online research, and posts of relevance to our own interest. i think i might need to comment on some of those posts….

Myspace and Facebook are collecting participants on huge scales that various mediums before them took a lot longer to accomplish.

I’ve just stumbledupon, my new favorite hobby by the way, a reference which is niggling in the back of my mind making me feel this is part of the answer to what Twittering is going to evolve into.

http://www.jacketflap.com/megablog/index.asp?Year=2009&Month=03&Day=05&postid=314226

I’m looking at the word clouds and this sort of fits in sideways. Maybe I should have done a word cloud myself but I wanted people to look at it, think about it and perhaps extrapolate a bit on tools of the future.

Okay, I’ll share my creative vision of this example such as it is:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/723222/Twitter_Literary_Agents

i am intending to try changing the theme – like going into a dress shop and trying on some new (or in this case, 2nd hand) clothes, and parading them around in front of a mirror…and some people who may care to comment. i will not stop (trying to) chang(ing) my outfits until i get tired.

in RL i like to wear a different outfit everyday, after all.

i don’t mean to imply i’ll try out a different theme every day though…

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