Blogging As A Discursive Practice
From: lewisgoodings, less than a second ago
This is the presentation from the recent panel at the AoIr conference in Vancouver (2007) entitled 'methods of blog research'
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007
AoIR 2007 presentation
From: lewisgoodings, less than a second ago
This is the presentation from the recent panel at the AoIr conference in Vancouver (2007) entitled 'methods of blog research'
SlideShare Link
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Today's report
Today I visited the Capilano suspension bridge. Check out the video here. Really excellent views. Pictures will be coming shortly as I am having some issues with the camera. But if you go there make sure you buy a hot apple cider. Now off to Granville Island to enjoy some Tapas and pretend I am interested in art.
Sunday, 21 October 2007
More on AoIR 8.0
ok, so I presented at the panel of blog research yesterday and it was a really great opportunity to see the other work going on in the field. A big thank you to Lois Scheidt for organising the event and to the rest of the panel attendants for providing thought-provoking conversation with regard to popular methods. The rest of the day lead to drinks downtown with Daniel, Jan, Andy, Vian and Lars. As with most conferences it was great to make some great friends which will hopefully lead to collaboration and further social events in the future.
So now Beth and I have a few days to explore (sunny) Vancouver...
More to come on what we find
So now Beth and I have a few days to explore (sunny) Vancouver...
More to come on what we find
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Vancouver, AoIR 8.0
So I have finally arrived in Vancouver. The AoIR conference starts tomorrow for me. I will be presenting on the final day at a panel on the methods of blog research. Here is the abstract:
Weblogs, more commonly referred to as blogs, are a communication tools that is used by online media-based communities. Blogging has recently been established as a genre in the global ecology of the internet (Herring et al., 2005; Blood, 2002). The inherently public nature of a blogs encourages a response from anyone who feels knowledgeable about the subject under discussion. Recent advances in networking technology have provided the blogging capabilities in social networking sites, such as, Myspace or Facebook. The launch of Myspace in 2003 captured the public’s attention and attracted millions of users in the UK. Research into the nature of blogging has also grown exponentially over the last few years, showing that blogging has the ability to transcend through various niches of social life, including scholarly and political issues (Glenn, 2003). In this paper, blogs are seen as an everyday tool in the construction of dynamic social relationships in online communities. The use of a discursive methodology is presented as an opportunity to access the social practices that are exchanged in online interaction.
Research into blogging is characterised by a breadth of methodological variation. Most recently, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is interested in converting a wide variety of rich data into a statistical measure of idiosyncratic characteristics. In comparison, our argument qualitatively searches for the conversational devices used in blogs and attempts to interpolate rising techniques in discourse analysis (DA). The paper demonstrates what a discursive methodology can offer to the study of blogging and we argue that it can provide a deeper insight into the performance of language in the chosen social network – Myspace.
Blogging in Myspace typically consist of a diverse mixture of text-based interaction that utilises personal information, images and miscellaneous text. The blog feature occupies a prominent position on the individuals profile and fits a template that is consistent amongst all profiles. Blogging in social networking sites is commonly disregarded in academic research in favour of blog sites that are typically reserved for blogging alone (filter blogs, academic blogs etc.). In this context, the blogging resource is found under different ‘rules of engagement’ due to the nature of Myspace (i.e. privacy controls, higher possibility of a fictional blogger identity), but the blogs are similar to the ‘traditional’ blogs found elsewhere in structure and content. The analysis represents the ability to use a discursive methodology to understanding the dynamic, social organisation of the blogging in Myspace. This study is linked to broader discursive psychology’s concerns of memory, technology and organisation.
Key Words
Blogging · Discursive psychology · Methods · Multimedia · Myspace
Weblogs, more commonly referred to as blogs, are a communication tools that is used by online media-based communities. Blogging has recently been established as a genre in the global ecology of the internet (Herring et al., 2005; Blood, 2002). The inherently public nature of a blogs encourages a response from anyone who feels knowledgeable about the subject under discussion. Recent advances in networking technology have provided the blogging capabilities in social networking sites, such as, Myspace or Facebook. The launch of Myspace in 2003 captured the public’s attention and attracted millions of users in the UK. Research into the nature of blogging has also grown exponentially over the last few years, showing that blogging has the ability to transcend through various niches of social life, including scholarly and political issues (Glenn, 2003). In this paper, blogs are seen as an everyday tool in the construction of dynamic social relationships in online communities. The use of a discursive methodology is presented as an opportunity to access the social practices that are exchanged in online interaction.
Research into blogging is characterised by a breadth of methodological variation. Most recently, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is interested in converting a wide variety of rich data into a statistical measure of idiosyncratic characteristics. In comparison, our argument qualitatively searches for the conversational devices used in blogs and attempts to interpolate rising techniques in discourse analysis (DA). The paper demonstrates what a discursive methodology can offer to the study of blogging and we argue that it can provide a deeper insight into the performance of language in the chosen social network – Myspace.
Blogging in Myspace typically consist of a diverse mixture of text-based interaction that utilises personal information, images and miscellaneous text. The blog feature occupies a prominent position on the individuals profile and fits a template that is consistent amongst all profiles. Blogging in social networking sites is commonly disregarded in academic research in favour of blog sites that are typically reserved for blogging alone (filter blogs, academic blogs etc.). In this context, the blogging resource is found under different ‘rules of engagement’ due to the nature of Myspace (i.e. privacy controls, higher possibility of a fictional blogger identity), but the blogs are similar to the ‘traditional’ blogs found elsewhere in structure and content. The analysis represents the ability to use a discursive methodology to understanding the dynamic, social organisation of the blogging in Myspace. This study is linked to broader discursive psychology’s concerns of memory, technology and organisation.
Key Words
Blogging · Discursive psychology · Methods · Multimedia · Myspace
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