Tag Archives: Audience

* reminder: begin “net­work wit­ness” (group posts “mon­i­tor­ing”)
— share group site/s & begin seek­ing audience

 
 
M 15-Sep     » Focus (and dis­cus­sion): Dis­course Com­mu­ni­ties
Read­ings from Into the Blo­gos­phere: Rhetoric, Com­mu­nity, and Cul­ture of Weblogs (2004)

» For discussion/activity, read “Intro­duc­tion: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Com­mu­nity, and Cul­ture” Gurak et al

and “Weblogs and the Pub­lic Sphere” Andrew Baoill

and choose 1 from these groups/lists (to dis­cuss in class, groups of A + B + C):

 
(group A)

• “Blogs as Vir­tual Com­mu­ni­ties: Iden­ti­fy­ing a Sense of Com­mu­nity in the Julie/Julia Project” Anita Blan­chard
• “Geog­ra­phy of the Blo­gos­phere: Rep­re­sent­ing the Cul­ture, Ecol­ogy and Com­mu­nity of Weblogs” Nicholas Packwood
• “Per­sonal Pub­li­ca­tion and Pub­lic Atten­tion” Torill Elvira Mortensen

 
(group B)

• “Par­ody Blog­ging and the Call of the Real” Trish Roberts-Miller
• “Women and Chil­dren Last: The Dis­cur­sive Con­struc­tion of Weblogs” Her­ring, Kouper, Scheidt, and Wright
• “Blog­ging as Social Action: A Genre Analy­sis of the Weblog” Miller and Shepherd

 
(group C)

• “Cul­ture Clash: Jour­nal­ism and the Com­mu­nal Ethos of the Blo­gos­phere” Brian Carroll
• “Weblog Jour­nal­ism: Between Infil­tra­tion and Inte­gra­tion” Jason Gallo
• “Imag­in­ing the Blo­gos­phere: An Intro­duc­tion to the Imag­ined Com­mu­nity of Instant Pub­lish­ing” Gra­ham Lampa

 
 
 
W 17-Sep   Rice, “The Mak­ing of Ka-knowledge: Dig­i­tal Aural­ity” (2006) Com­put­ers and Com­po­si­tion 23 (PDF in D2L)

Focus/Discuss: dig­i­tal rhetoric, net­work forms/modes

 
» Blog Entry due (plus class­mate com­ment due Thurs.)

 
 
 
F 19-Sep   Brown, “Com­po­si­tion in the Dro­mos­phere” (2012) Com­put­ers and Com­po­si­tion 29.1 (PDF in D2L)

Focus/Discuss: net­work con­di­tions (“real-time”) & expe­ri­ence; mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing
— look­ing ahead: project 1