Rhetoric of Blogging from HUMANIST

A recent request to the HUMANIST listserv for articles on the rhetoric of blogging resulted in quite a few responses. Here's a summary that may contain some useful "nuggets."

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1) "Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs."
Collection of essays, blogs, etc.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/

2) Members of the Computers and Writing community
http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/ and
Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/groups/cccc
are studying the rhetoric of blogging as well as teaching with student
and faculty blogs.

3) Kairos (online journal)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/

Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology & Pedagogy
http://kairosnews.org/

4) "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog"
Carolyn R. Miller and Dawn Shepherd, North Carolina State University
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogging_as_social_action.html

Carolyn R. Miller seems to have a focus on rhetoric in the digital
domain. See her publications list at:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~crm/publications.htm

5) Rhetoric as "a persuasive way in which one relates a theme or
idea in an effort to convince." (thanks Wikipedia) as relating to blogs, see
"The Function of Language to Facilitate and Maintain Social Networks in
Research Weblogs"
By Stephanie Hendricks
http://www.humlab.umu.se/exjobb/files/LanguageBlogs.pdf

6) "The Rhetoric of Web Logs" (as well as other blogging info)
By Lisa Spangenberg
http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000075.html

7) Jill Walker, dissertation on blogging at the
University of Bergen, and her own weblog jill/txt is a treasure trove
of information. For example, in the category "blog theorising" --
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?cat=9 --
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?p=860 ("small-world links in academia")
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?p=845 ("paper on blogs")

8) "Blogging and the Politics of Melancholy,"
Michael Keran, Canadian Journal of Communication Vol 29 No 1 (2004)
http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=106>http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=106