Something I was going to add here for a long time – Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, community and culture of weblogs, an online collection of essays edited by Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman.
Next to the great content it’s a good example of innovative academic publishing: peer-reviewed, online, with categories, comments and trackbacks for each essay, released under Creative Commons… It’s in my reading list (after I finish most important things in my writing list ;)
See also: review by Lanette Cadle in Computers and Composition Online (via Clancy Ratliff).
Table of contents:
Foreword. Power Surge: Writing-Rhetoric Studies, Blogs, and Embedded Whiteness by Kathleen Ethel Welch, University of Oklahoma
Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture by Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, University of Minnesota
Visual Blogs by Meredith Badger, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project by Anita Blanchard, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Spirit of Paulo Freire in Blogland: Struggling for a Knowledge-Log Revolution by Christine Boese, Independent researcher
Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs by Kevin Brooks, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State University
Culture Clash: Journalism and the Communal Ethos of the Blogosphere by Brian Carroll, Berry College
Promiscuous Fictions by Tyler Curtain, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Weblog Journalism: Between Infiltration and Integration by Jason Gallo, Northwestern University
Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs by Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Elijah L. Wright, Indiana University at Bloomington
The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature by Steve Himmer, Emerson College
Battlecat Then, Battlecat Now: Temporal Shifts, Hyperlinking and Database Subjectivities by Kylie Jarrett, University of South Australia
Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing by Graham Lampa, Hamline University
Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom by Charles Lowe, Purdue University, and Terra Williams, Arizona State University
Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog by Carolyn R. Miller and Dawn Shepherd, North Carolina State University
Personal Publication and Public Attention by Torill Elvira Mortensen, Volda College
Weblogs and the Public Sphere by Andrew Ó Baoill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geography of the Blogosphere: Representing the Culture, Ecology and Community of Weblogs by Nicholas Packwood, Wilfrid Laurier University
Parody Blogging and the Call of the Real by Trish Roberts-Miller, University of Texas at Austin
Links, Lives, Logs: Presentation in the Dutch Blogosphere by Frank Schaap, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research
Common Visual Design Elements of Weblogs by Lois Ann Scheidt and Elijah Wright, Indiana University at Bloomington
Formation of Norms in a Blog Community by Carolyn Wei, University of Washington
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