I chose this picture because I see this visual when I think of blogging. Connected and collaborating online. A connection that can be made anytime and anywhere.
Blogs, the new type of text. I had never thought of myself as being a blogger until I had to set up an account through blogger.com for one of my classes. Yet I blog all the time through social networking which was considered in this chapter. Blogs are growing in popularity as a simple publishing tool that allows users to publish on the web at little or no cost. Blogs are a type of interactive texts. This chapter centers around experiences of digital writing and online publishing, how it extends into social networks, and how it contributes to new groups and online communities. Blogging gives immediate publication and opportunities to communicate with a audience of varying backgrounds. Blog readers, including myself, tend to only regard the most recent entries as worthy to their attention. Mainly because recent entries appear first. "While much blogging is a form of personal expression, when the bloggers in question a community of mutually-referenced topical bloggers... (they) see their work as collaborative". Blogging provides new opportunities for networking and encourages new relationships between readers and writers. New technologies, new relationships.
I had never considered social media to be blogging either. I guess I had always viewed "bloggers" as being people who update their blogs daily and have a large following. It's interesting how integrated we are into online literacy without even realizing it.
ReplyDeleteI like how you said "New technologies, new relationships". It is interesting to me how caught up we can get in what is going on in social networking. We can't wait to log on to see what people are doing/saying today!
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