The Other Writing We Do

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The Other Writing We Do

• Elizabeth Losh,
• University of California, Irvine

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So Many Blogs, So Little Time

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High Profile Consequences

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Gender and Blogging

• Female Blogging Issues of Identity, Relations,
  and Play, Harriet A. Page (December 2006)
• Cyberstalking and the Community Guidelines
  Movement
• Critiques of blogging by journalists who equate
  electronic writing with femininity

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Why Academics Blog

51 described the activity as "not important for
career" 91 praised the "intellectual
stimulation" of blogging 73 used the genre for
"testing ideas" 73 said they enjoyed sharing
their ideas with non-academics 70 considered it
a vehicle for publicity and exposure 64 found
blogging productive to "build community" 63
liked blogging because it facilitated
interdisciplinarity Perceived as very
time-consuming No correlation between
peer-reviewed publications and blogging (neither
negative nor positive)
Gina Walejko (2007)
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June 15, 2005A Typical Beginning

See Bonnie Nardis Article for Why
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November 10, 2005Public Audiences and Testing
Ideas for a Book

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December 2005Reciprocal Communities

Academic conferences, new books, panels, talks,
etc.
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Building an AudienceLinks, Links, and More Links

• Vanity Searching
• (and extra-special angry readers)
• TrackBacks
• Comments Sections
• Social Networking Sites

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May 2007An Award in Absentia

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Scholarship on Blogging One Kind of Academic
Writing

Blogspats Sex, Race, and Photoshop
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Three Ways Photographs Function in Blogs

• To commemorate a particular occasion and
  authenticate the authors function as an invited
  participant or credible witness
• To solicit critical scrutiny or encourage
  particular ways of seeing through ideological
  lenses that are validated by the collective
  intelligence of the group
• To improve upon the raw material of a digital
  file by editorializing with Photoshop

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Testifying as an Expert

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Analyzing Electronic Artifacts

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Editorializing about Digital Politics