m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

cross-posted to CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics
via Alex Halavais
In the Detroit News Lifestyle section, January 31, 2005, there is an article by Kimberly Hayes Taylor on iPods: iPods set off iMania.
Such niches — incomprehensible to the uninitiated, especially the technophobic — lead to a basic question: Are iPod people sort of weird?
“Yes,” Halavais [...]

cross posted to Network(ed) Rhetorics
Jon� Udell makes a good point when he says, “The dictionary definition of �blog is correct, but it says nothing about the network in which the blog participates. The bloggers I read and especially those whose posts I value define my social network, but it doesn’t say much about my [...]

I’ve been linked by someone who doesn’t know me in real life. I don’t know if it was something I said, but Nancy at Random Thoughts used my link to get to the Lowe and Williams article. That’s totally cool! I’m part of the network. (G)

in CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics
In Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs, Brooks, Nichols, and Priebe refer to Rebecca Blood who sees the weblogger as “self-motivated and community supported” (para. 3). Notably, this preference does not hold true as a motivating factor for their students. It is also puzzling that [...]

in CCR 771, Network(ed) Rhetorics
Over on the class blog, in one post Michael Frasciello says, “I get the sense we��re all circling the same carcass.” I’m sort of feeling that too. Well, I don’t know about the carcass part, but at least the circling part.
In a sense, I think I am moving [...]

in CCR 771, Network(ed) Rhetorics
In reflecting on the article, In Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom, by Lowe and Williams, it seems to me that blogging can be a way to make the writing process more holistic. As Lowe and Williams note, blogs give students real world audiences for their writing [...]

in CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics
To quote, Edmonds, et. al.: “If the trends we identified above continue, the future will include virtually everyone using a technology evolved from today’s blog software to manage and share information about topics of their choice in a dense network of personal, corporate and aggregated information services.” To rif on [...]

in CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics
Mortensen and Walker review the use of weblogs in their research processes. Their thinking about blogging changed with use. At first, blogging was seen “mainly as tools for focusing, for exchanging information and being part of a discussion…” (250). As researchers and bloggers at once, they immersed themselves [...]

CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics.
Composing the Self: Of Diaries and Lifelogs, by Jose van Dijck
I’m overwhelmed by all of the good summaries everyone has written. I wanted to do something a little different, so instead of summarizing, I have a list of questions and prompts that I have come away with from reading the article.
Writing [...]

in CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics.
I’m just rolling terms around in my mind.
If people + communication = network, does people + communication + common cultural activity = social network?