Blogging as a Social Action: A genre analysis of the weblog
This article opens up in a way that is meant to catch the readers attention; they begin by giving short paragraphs about how weblogs and the issue of privacy has affected peoples lives. The article notes that weblogs are blurring the line of privacy vs. public lives. The stories shared affected people who choose to put their information out onto the web for all to see without thinking of all possible outcomes.
The article continues to analyze the genre of a weblog. They question the evolutionary process of the blog. The blogsphere started in the early 90’s with the wonderful cocept of the internet and freedom to type what is willed. They give major events that were a hot topic in the blogging realm. They continue to discuss the saturation of voyerism throughout history and the blog world.
I believe the idea of the article is for people to realize that blogging is a seperate entity from everything else. Such as written text is different from spoken word. Blogging is different genre of writing just as science fiction is different from historical documentation. One cannot really compare the two.
Common Visual Design Elements of Weblogs
The idea for this article is to inform the different visual aspects of a weblog to the general public. The article discusses how weblogs are similar in their set up but can differ in color scheme as well as graphics. The article discusses how different people may set up their blogs in a standard or unique way. I found it interesting that females were more likely to use a design template rather than to create one of their own.
I also found it interesting that males tended to use code schemes as well as more graphics than females. The article uses stats and actual data rather than referencing blogs to help the reader understand the affect of color schemes and visual affects weblogs have.
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OHMIGOSH! I TRANSLATED YOUR TITLE WITH LINDSEY, AND WE ARE SUPER PROUD OF OURSELVES! XD
“Words, there are just too many of them.”
It took Fallon and I, working together, way to long to figure that out. But we did it!
And as for you actual post, lol, I like the idea of blogging being seen as a completely seperate entity from other forms of writing and language. Its jsut too difficult to really compare it to written fiction, newspapers, etc. Of course there are similarities and many arguments can be made for the legitimacy or illegitmacy of blogging, but it makes the most sense to me to just accept it as a new form of wriitng and move on. Where is all this back-and-forth debate really getting us? Blogs are here for good, or atleast until something new and better comes along.
Your second article interested me as well becasue it vaguely relates back to one of mine, which was more about the use of pictures in blogging, but the same basic idea of a visual element was there. I’d never thought about the possible differences between how males and females approach the visual element of blogging.