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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Trying to catch up on some recent and not so recent blog scholarship.
The Learning Blogosphere (2006): a video presentation by Alex H. The drill instructor and hippie approach contrasted. Sees blogging as a gateway to learning beyond the class; sees the blogosphere as a sphere of incidental learning, somewhere between authoritarian and laissez-faire approaches to education.

Carolyn Miller and Dawn Sheppard, "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog" (2004). I was particularly interested in checking out the "social actions," which get summarized as intrinsic / expressive and extrinsic / community building. The article doesn't get very fine grained, and I think some subsequent scholarship even suggests that the extrinsic (to find community) has been a very small part of blogging. People tend to share their blogs with the people they know, and the wider audience, while important to some, is not important to many.

Charles Tyron's "Writing and Citizenship: Using Blogs to Teach First-Year Writing" tells a good story about bloggers' interactions with his students, and he generally believes that blogging has had a postive impact on his class, but he doesn't actually provide a study, and he does admit that some do not like writing in public, and others do all their blogging at the end of the semester.
Pedagogy 6.1available to subscribers.

Not finding anything about long-term bloggers / blogging, although I am sure it is out there. Better check robot wisdom.

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