Into the Blogosphere
June 25th, 2004“This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others.”
I’m going to have to get back to this site to read the essays listed here, as they look both interesting and time-consuming. A few that look worthy by their title alone include Weblogs and the Public Sphere, Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog, Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs, and Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs.
This site is hosted by U Think, the weblog center at the University of Minnesota Libraries, which now hosts more than 300 weblogs for the U of M campus. Great job!! (link via del.icio.us)