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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 prompts for another day
1. Who am I in the world?
2. What are my experiences today?
3. What did I observe today?
4. My reflection of the day…
5. I confess…
I confess, I did not know…
the 3 Myths About Paper Diaries:
1. Uniform in content.
2. Intended as private documents.
3. Authored by one.
Questions I want to ask…
How do people back up their blogs?
What other “collective means of expression” do I want to discuss?
Multiple ancestors of the weblog: (and personal trivia)
-commonplace books
(I’m thinking about writing something about commonplace books for my 18th century women’s literary traditions class.)
-clipping services
(I used to clip articles from magazines and save them in 3-ring binders or hanging files. My magazine reading or clipping has fallen off almost completely since grad school and my blog.)
-pamphlets
(I save owner’s manuals. They are not alphabetized, but my small CD collection is.)
-diaries
(I was a haphazard diary keeper as a young girl. I did collect autographs.)
I am going to start another list for…
-words I look up in the dictionary (’cause I find myself looking up the same ones over and over again and it would be interesting to see if there are patterns to my forgetfulness.)
-my 100 things.
-biker travelogues
-biker books and movies
-blog designs I like
-academic home page designs I like
Sources from van Dijck’s References that I want to look at…
Weblog as Genre, Weblog as Sociability, Susan Herring
Ok, so what have I done here? (grad students must afterall offer some analysis and not just summarize). I’ve generated writing prompts for another day. I’ve offered a confession. I’ve sort of clipped pieces or phrases that caught my attention for later use and I’ve offered a short to-do list. There is not much to analyze right now. There is no thesis or controlling idea, but there is fodder for another day. And that is a good thing.
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jenwingard
January 28th, 2005 at 8:08 am
Your comment about magazine clippings is spot on. I used to do that too. Make collages to hang my bedroom wall and use the clippings to decorate my textbook covers. I never made the connection of blogging as collecting and it was there in the articles. This idea helps me problematize my concept of what is visible and invisible in blogging. I was working under the idea that in blogging your visual representation is invisible and that is different than other modes of self-representation. But with those collages I did not have photos of myself, but through them I was constructing a persona — so its a bit the same. Again the old becoming new. Good stuff.