This doesn't make sense. How will "he" both become more aware of others if he becomes impatient with what they think and wants to only listen to this essiential voice in "his" head?
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10 May 15
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They are addressed to everyone and at the same time to no one. They seem to serve no immediate practical purpose, yet increasing numbers of both writers and readers are devoting increasing amounts of time to them. The blog is a new rhetorical opportunity, made possible by technology that is becoming more available and easier to use, but it was adopted so quickly and widely that it must be serving well established rhetorical needs.
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30 Mar 15
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Kairos describes both the sense in which discourse is understood as fitting and timely--the way it observes propriety or decorum--and the way in which it can seize on the unique opportunity of a fleeting moment to create new rhetorical possibility (Miller, 2002).
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Almost across the board, bloggers seem to agree that content is the most important feature of a blog (Rodzvilla, 2002; The Weblog Review, 2003). The Weblog Review, a blog reviewing site, evaluates three features on a 5-point scale: design, consistency, and content, with the lion's share of the rating's weight, 80-90%, dedicated to the blog's content.
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And, within limits, by their incorporation into a response to a novel situation, ancestral genres help define the potentialities of the new genre: the subject-positions of the rhetor and audience(s), the nature of the recurrent exigence, the decorum (or "fittingness" in Bitzer's term) of response.
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The common features to be accounted for are the generally marked reverse-chronological structure, the frequent updating, the combination of links and commentary, and the simultaneous intrinsic and extrinsic purposes. An exploration of ancestral genres will help us understand how these features coalesced as a rhetorically satisfying, or "fitting," response to a recurrent exigence rooted in the kairos of the late 1990s. We do not consider here the genres that characterize that kairos, such as reality TV and the memoir, which we might think of as "sister" genres, but the complexity of the family tree means that the distinctions between sisters and ancestors may not be all that clear.
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09 Mar 15
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The weblog phenomenon raises a number of rhetorical issues, and for us the incidents summarized above point to one of the more intriguing of these--the peculiar intersection of the public and private that weblogs seem to invite. As David Weinberger has observed, the confessional nature of blogs has redrawn the line between the private and the public dimensions of our lives (2002). Blogs can be both public and intensely personal in possibly contradictory ways. They are addressed to everyone and at the same time to no one. They seem to serve no immediate practical purpose, yet increasing numbers of both writers and readers are devoting increasing amounts of time to them. The blog is a new rhetorical opportunity, made possible by technology that is becoming more available and easier to use, but it was adopted so quickly and widely that it must be serving well established rhetorical needs. Why did blogging catch on so quickly and so widely? What motivates someone to begin--and continue--a blog? What audience(s) do bloggers address? Who actually reads blogs and why? In short, what rhetorical work do blogs perform--and for whom? And how do blogs perform this work? What features and elements make the blog recognizable and functional?
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03 Dec 14
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A genre analysis of the blog will begin to answer these questions. When a type of discourse or communicative action acquires a common name within a given context or community, that's a good sign that it's functioning as a genre (Miller, 1984).
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It appears that blogs originated as a way to share information of interest.
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The early bloggers were Web-savvy individuals, generally designers or programmers working in the technology industry. Not only did they have to be able to locate information on the Web before search engines became as accessible as they are today, but they had to be able to code their own HTML pages.
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07 Sep 14
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Blogging as Social Action -
my diary
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blogger reports on her friends and her boyfriend
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relied on security by obscurity
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controversy
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phenomenon
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They seem to serve no immediate practical purpose
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blogging communities
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06 Sep 14
delta1132"In order to identify the basic agreements that have coalesced around the blog, we have tried to honor the ethnomethodology of genres, relying to the greatest extent possible on the perceptions of bloggers themselves. We examined numerous individual blogs, of course, but we also paid attention to how bloggers talk about blogs. We noted the criteria they use to evaluate blogs and the ways that blog portals organize and present blogs. We read multiple accounts of the history of blogging and of the activity and purposes of blogging. Our selections from the profusion of material available have been guided by our initial questions about the intersection of the public and private spheres."
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In order to identify the basic agreements that have coalesced around the blog, we have tried to honor the ethnomethodology of genres, relying to the greatest extent possible on the perceptions of bloggers themselves. We examined numerous individual blogs, of course, but we also paid attention to how bloggers talk about blogs. We noted the criteria they use to evaluate blogs and the ways that blog portals organize and present blogs. We read multiple accounts of the history of blogging and of the activity and purposes of blogging. Our selections from the profusion of material available have been guided by our initial questions about the intersection of the public and private spheres.
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02 Sep 14
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"every genre expresses space/time relations that reflect current social beliefs regarding the placement and action of human individuals in space and time." They are thus, she concludes "profoundly ideological" (2002, p. 84, 95). But in order to evolve, genres must also allow for the incorporation of novelty, the accommodation of changed constraints, the tweaking of ideology, which eventually leads to the redefinition of decorum, and the imposition of a new ideology.
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It appears that blogs originated as a way to share information of interest. These early blogs had three primary features: they were chronologically organized, contained links to sites of interest on the web, and provided commentary on the links.
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Most commentators define blogs on the basis of their reverse chronology, frequent updating, and combination of links with personal commentary.4
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Almost across the board, bloggers seem to agree that content is the most important feature of a blog
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fourteen content-focused categories: adult, anime, camgirl, computer, entertainment, humor, movies, music, news/links, personal, photography, Spanish/Portugese, teen, and video games.
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classification of blogs into two "styles," based largely on content: an original filter-style, where the blogger is primarily an editor and annotator of links, and a later, more personal "blog-style" weblog, where bloggers engage in "an outbreak of self-expression"
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Content is important to bloggers because it represents their freedom of selection and presentation. What many bloggers find most compelling about blogs is the ability to combine the immediately real and the genuinely personal, a combination that represents a refreshing contrast with the "bland commercial" point of view of so much internet content
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All blogs contain dated entries, starting with the most recent, and a majority include external links. Blogs are composed of "posts," which include a date, a time stamp, and a permalink and often include a link for commentary and the author's name, especially if multiple authors contribute to a blog. The reverse chronology and time-stamping of posts create an "expectation of updates."
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we must ask whether we should define a genre by an ideal or by the mean, by expectation or by experience. This question is related to the question of whether we can tell the difference between a successful and a less successful instantiation of a genre.
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We should not define a genre by its failed examples, even if they are a majority, but at the same time we must be open to the possibility that there may be multiple forms of success. Perhaps the blog is already evolving into multiple genres, meeting different exigences for different rhetors--journalists, teenagers, the high-tech community, etc.
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self-expression and community development.
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The self that is "disclosed" is a construction, possibly an experimental one, which takes shape as a particular rhetorical subject-position. In a blog, that construction is an ongoing event, the self being disclosed a continual achievement.
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The blogger is her own audience, her own public, her own beneficiary.
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Relationship development and social control are primarily external, directed outward, functions that use self-disclosure to build connections with others or to manipulate their opinions. These second two dimensions of blog disclosure support the second omnipresent theme, community building. Even as they serve to clarify and validate the self, blogs are also intended to be read. Maintaining traffic and link statistics seems important to bloggers, and many provide readers the opportunity to provide feedback either by posting comments directly on the blog or through email.
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One of the main branches of the blog family tree sprouts from the early use of blogs as filtering or directory services for the internet.
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Also on the filtering branch are several genres related to collecting and organizing information, genres such as the clipping service and the edited anthology that make information available to others, as well as genres that collect for more personal reasons, such as the commonplace book and the Wunderkammer, or curio collection.
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The clipping service or media monitoring service is an information collection strategy designed around the periodical print media.
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the aim of being comprehensive within the search parameters set by the client
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A related branch of the family tree is occupied by genres of political journalism, such as the pamphlet or broadside, the editorial, and the opinion column.
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Such genres highlight commentary.
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Finally, on a separate branch of the blog family tree we find the journal and the diary, along with the newer electronic genres of the home page and the webcam.
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These multiple branches on the ancestral tree account for most of the major features of blogs, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic. The diverse but seemingly "real" content with both intrinsic, or personal, and extrinsic, or political-historical, variants; the chronological and incremental form; the ambivalence about audience--all have antecedents in more familiar and well established genres. Blogs appeared, and then multiplied exponentially, when technology made it evolutionarily possible to combine features from a set of antecedent genres that in other circumstances might never have produced any common progeny: the diary, the clipping service, the broadside, the anthology, the commonplace book, the ship's log. We might see the blog as a complex rhetorical hybrid (or mongrel), with genetic imprints from all these prior genres.
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Understanding exigence as an "objectified social need" that functions as rhetorical motive (Miller, 1984, p. 157), then, we must characterize the generic exigence of the blog as some widely shared, recurrent need for cultivation and validation of the self; furthermore, in these particular times, we must locate that need at the intersection of the private and public realms, where questions about identity are most troubled.
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But our point is that the blog might be understood as a particular reaction to the constant flux of subjectivity, as a generic effort of reflexivity within the subject that creates an eddy of relative stability. Infinite play, constant innovation, is not psychically sustainable on an indefinite basis. In a culture in which the real is both public and mediated, the blog makes "real" the reflexive effort to establish the self against the forces of fragmentation, through expression and connection, through disclosure. It is, as Vivian notes about rhetoric in general, "a precious aesthetic technology" by which one "composes and cultivates one's being in the world" (2000, p. 316).
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09 Aug 14
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Blogs can be both public and intensely personal in possibly contradictory ways. They are addressed to everyone and at the same time to no one. They seem to serve no immediate practical purpose, yet increasing numbers of both writers and readers are devoting increasing amounts of time to them.
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As [the blogger] enunciates his [sic] opinions daily, this new awareness of his inner life may develop into a trust in his own perspective. His own reactions--to a poem, to other people, and, yes, to the media--will carry more weight with him. Accustomed to expressing his thoughts on his website, he will be able to more fully articulate his opinions to himself and to others. He will become impatient with waiting to see what others think before he decides, and will begin to act in accordance with his inner voice instead. Ideally, he will become less reflexive and more reflective, and find his own opinions and ideas worthy of serious consideration. (2000)
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07 Feb 14
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intersection of the public and private that weblogs seem to invite.
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peculiar intersection of the public and private that weblogs seem to invite. As David Weinberger has observed, the confessional nature of blogs has redrawn the line between the private and the public dimensions of our lives (2002). Blogs can be both public and intensely personal in possibly contradictory ways.
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peculiar intersection of the public and private that weblogs seem to invite
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intersection of the public and private that weblogs seem to invite.
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peculiar intersection of the public and private that weblogs seem to invite
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new rhetorical opportunity
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adopted so quickly and widely that it must be serving well established rhetorical needs
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what rhetorical work do blogs perform--and for whom
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When a type of discourse or communicative action acquires a common name within a given context or community, that's a good sign that it's functioning as a genre (Miller, 1984)
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evaluative criteria used within blogging communities
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cultural kairos in which blogs arose and developed rhetorical power
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central tendencies and range of variation of discourse
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ancestral genres
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generically recognized substance, form, and rhetorical action
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recurrent rhetorical exigence
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More recently, genre analysis has been applied to the relatively unstructured rhetorical environment of the internet, where constructing knowledge and getting work done aren't necessarily the driving exigences (Agre, 1998; Bauman, 1999; Crowston and Williams 2000; Shepherd and Watters 1998; Zucchermaglio & Talamo, 2003). detailed studies have examined as genres the home page (Dillon & Gushrowski, 2000), CMC conversations (Erickson 2000), and the blog (Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, & Wright, 2004) 1
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emergent culture
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self-organized communities that support blogging, the recurrent rhetorical exigences that arise there, and the rhetorical roles (or "subject positions") they support and make possible.
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The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal can be seen as a representative anecdote for a significant cultural trend in the 1990's, the weakening boundary between the public and the private and the expansion of celebrity culture to politics and beyond
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American culture became obsessed with both making celebrities into regular people (as with Clinton) and making regular people into celebrities (as with Lewinsky), a trend that has been called the "democratization of celebrity" (Stark, 2003). This destabilization of public and private has been linked by Clay Calvert to our continual surrender of information: as people relinquish control over increasing amounts of personal information, they expect increasing access to information in return (2000)
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became public spectacle, leading one commentator to note that in certain social settings, "there is a kind of 'privacy' which seems to draw its meaning only from being publicized" (Frazer, 2000, par. 94).
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self-expression and community development.
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Disclosure, however, should not be understood as the simple unveiling of a pre-existent or perdurable self, but rather as a constitutive effort. The self that is "disclosed" is a construction, possibly an experimental one, which takes shape as a particular rhetorical subject-position. In a blog, that construction is an ongoing event, the self being disclosed a continual achievement.
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self expression serves the intrinsic self-disclosure functions of both self clarification and self validation, enhancing self awareness and confirming already-held beliefs
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Relationship development and social control are primarily external, directed outward, functions that use self-disclosure to build connections with others or to manipulate their opinions
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Many bloggers see blogging as a way of developing relationships, via linking back, with an online community:
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For example, LiveJournal's "friends" feature allows bloggers to link to other blogs and allow differential access to their own blog. Blood notes that bloggers "position themselves" in the community of bloggers, indicating through their links "the tribe to which they wish to belong" (2000). Both linking and commentary create the hierarchy that structures the social world of blogs
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Indeed, this is the heart of the problem we began with: how do these public and private purposes co-exist and even enhance each other as they seem to?
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To the extent that such blogs purvey a point of view as well as a collection of links, they combine the personal and the public in ways that are distinctive to the blog as a rhetorical form, and they allow bloggers to cultivate the self in a public way.
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Bloggers, however, seem less interested in role playing than in locating, or constructing, for themselves and for others, an identity that they can understand as unitary, as "real."
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In a culture in which the real is both public and mediated, the blog makes "real" the reflexive effort to establish the self against the forces of fragmentation, through expression and connection, through disclosure. It is, as Vivian notes about rhetoric in general, "a precious aesthetic technology" by which one "composes and cultivates one's being in the world" (2000, p. 316).
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05 Oct 13
Mitchell GoinsAs I read these posts, the notion of discourse communities came to mind: the expectations, beliefs, values we have about writing or even behaving that we share with others. In the network, it seems the boundaries of discourse communities all converge and the expectations and constraints for writing and various kinds of writing all become blurred. Rice's conception of the network, for me, doesn't only pose a theory or rhetoric, but a theory of writing. Even as blogs have emerged as a genre, they still combine multiple discourse communities all in one space that complicate what is appropriate and what is not, and how we think about what writing is.
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03 Apr 13
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As David Weinberger has observed, the confessional nature of blogs has redrawn the line between the private and the public dimensions of our lives (2002). Blogs can be both public and intensely personal in possibly contradictory ways. They are addressed to everyone and at the same time to no one. They seem to serve no immediate practical purpose, yet increasing numbers of both writers and readers are devoting increasing amounts of time to them.
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early blogs had three primary features: they were chronologically organized, contained links to sites of interest on the web, and provided commentary on the links. The early bloggers were Web-savvy individuals, generally designers or programmers working in the technology industry. Not only did they have to be able to locate information on the Web before search engines became as accessible as they are today, but they had to be able to code their own HTML pages.
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bloggers seem to agree that content is the most important feature of a blog
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The Weblog Review, a blog reviewing site, evaluates three features on a 5-point scale: design, consistency, and content, with the lion's share of the rating's weight, 80-90%, dedicated to the blog's content.
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The Weblog Review classifies blogs by grouping them into fourteen content-focused categories: adult, anime, camgirl, computer, entertainment, humor, movies, music, news/links, personal, photography, Spanish/Portugese, teen, and video games.
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All blogs contain dated entries, starting with the most recent, and a majority include external links. Blogs are composed of "posts," which include a date, a time stamp, and a permalink and often include a link for commentary and the author's name, especially if multiple authors contribute to a blog. The reverse chronology and time-stamping of posts create an "expectation of updates." We should also note thatthe semantic immediacy noted above is represented formally by the use of the present tense in the dated entries, as in diaries.
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Self-expression is a salient theme among some bloggers, who find the same opportunity that television talk shows afford their participants: the opportunity to tell their stories in a mediated forum to a potentially large, though distant and invisible, audience.
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18 Nov 11
Florence DujardinThe blog is a new rhetorical opportunity, made possible by technology that is becoming more available and easier to use, but it was adopted so quickly and widely that it must be serving well established rhetorical needs. Why did blogging catch on so quickly and so widely? What motivates someone to begin�and continue�a blog? What audience(s) do bloggers address? Who actually reads blogs and why? In short, what rhetorical work do blogs perform�and for whom? And how do blogs perform this work? What features and elements make the blog recognizable and functional?
A genre analysis of the blog will begin to answer these questions. When a type of discourse or communicative action acquires a common name within a given context or community, that�s a good sign that it�s functioning as a genre (Miller, 1984). The weblog seems to have acquired this status very quickly, with an increasing amount of attention and commentary in the mainstream press reinforcing its status. -
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genre analysis of the blog
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A Darwinian approach to genre requires an understanding of what makes a rhetorical action �fitting� within its cultural environment. In other words, we must see genre in relation to kairos, or socially perceived space-time. What Bitzer called a �fitting� response will survive to become recurrent and thus generic if the kairos also recurs, or persists (1978, p. 168). Kairos describes both the sense in which discourse is understood as fitting and timely�the way it observes propriety or decorum�and the way in which it can seize on the unique opportunity of a fleeting moment to create new rhetorical possibility (Miller, 2002). Genres certainly incorporate decorum, even helping to create the decorum of situations, but they are also complex enough�and often flexible enough�to offer resources for innovation. Schryer uses the Bakhtinian term chronotope to emphasize that �every genre expresses space/time relations that reflect current social beliefs regarding the placement and action of human individuals in space and time.� They are thus, she concludes �profoundly ideological� (2002, p. 84, 95). But in order to evolve, genres must also allow for the incorporation of novelty, the accommodation of changed constraints, the tweaking of ideology, which eventually leads to the redefinition of decorum, and the imposition of a new ideology.
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As Berkenkotter and Huckin put it, genres �are always sites of contention between stability and change� (1995, p. 6). The appearance of a new genre is an event of great rhetorical interest because it means that the �stabilized-enough,� negotiated balance between innovation and decorum has broken down and a new one is under development. The imprints of ancestral genres can give us insight into what aspects of generic exigences are no longer addressed, how the new stability is negotiated, how rhetoric accommodates change and accommodates us to change.
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andrew bendelowThe history of blogs--the birth of a literary genre--
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ional nature of blogs has redrawn the line between the private and the public dimensions of our lives (2002). Blogs can be both public and intensely personal in possibly contradictory ways. They are addressed to everyone and at the same time to no one.
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emphasizes that �genres come from somewhere and are transforming into something else�
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In 1984, Miller emphasized that because they are rooted in social practices �genres change, evolve, and decay� (1984, p. 163), and as early as 1973, Jamieson argued that because �genres are evolving phenomena,� a Darwinian rather than Platonic perspective should be used in studying them (1973).
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Significantly, James hypothesized that the interest in baseball statistics is generalizable, that people would track statistics on their neighbors if they were available, and those neighbors �would be figures as compelling as Ken Griffey Jr. or Randy Johnson� (2001, par. 20).
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American culture became obsessed with both making celebrities into regular people (as with Clinton) and making regular people into celebrities (as with Lewinsky), a trend that has been called the �democratization of celebrity� (Stark, 2003)
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�there is a kind of 'privacy' which seems to draw its meaning only from being publicized�
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Seeing is knowing, not just believing
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glimpses into the lives of others, glimpses that seem more real because they are secret.
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Last, there is the need for involvement, the desire to be part of the world around us, even though voyeurism by its very nature can provide only the illusion of involvement.
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James Atlas saw the memoir trend as part of general �culture of confession,� consistent with talk shows and 12-step programs, trauma and therapy, but also part of an �historic American longing to discover who we are� (1996, p. 26). 2
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Sherry Turkle has noted that our immersion in a �culture of simulation� (which includes not only virtual environments but also mediated aspects of contemporary life such as Disneyland, shopping malls, and television) ultimately devalues direct experience, making it seem less compelling and ultimately less real (1997, pp. 235�38). The �reality� movement in the media has seemingly come to replace the reality IRL (In Real Life). As Calvert puts it, �people and things are important or real only if they appear on television�
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he self that is �disclosed� is a construction, possibly an experimental one, which takes shape as a particular rhetorical subject-position. In a blog, that construction is an ongoing event, the self being disclosed a continual achievement.
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He will become impatient with waiting to see what others think before he decides, and will begin to act in accordance with his inner voice instead.
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Conceived of this way, self expression serves the intrinsic self-disclosure functions of both self clarification and self validation, enhancing self awareness and confirming already-held beliefs. The blogger is her own audience, her own public, her own beneficiary. These functions of self-disclosure are fundamental to what Peter Elbow calls �private writing,� writing that is not intended to be read by others, writing that allows the writer to �value [her] own words and thoughts and not worry about the reactions to them by others� (1999, p. 157). As Blood notes of her early experience with blogging, �I carefully considered my own opinions and ideas, and I began to feel that my perspective was unique and important�; she hypothesizes that each new blogger �may begin a � journey of self-discovery and intellectual self-reliance� (2000). Foucault noted that �taking care of the self� in and through writing is one of the oldest Western traditions, �well established and deeply rooted when Augustine started his Confessions� (1988, p. 27). Foucault traces several techniques for the care of the self in the ancient and early Christian traditions, including dialectic, letter-writing, meditation, and the interpretation of dreams, noting the evolving historical dynamics. Though techniques of verbalized self-disclosure were central to early Christian self-renunciation, starting in the eighteenth century, in a �decisive break,� verbalization was turned to serve the modernist ends of constituting �positively, a new self� (1988, p. 49).
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read only by a few in the know.
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Their appeal is not merely voyeuristic; it is based not only on the promise of exposure of the private and secret but also on the way diaries represent experience as �an intersection between the individual and the outside world
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we suspect that the generic exigence that motivates bloggers is related less to the need for information than to the self and the relations between selves.
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then, we must characterize the generic exigence of the blog as some widely shared, recurrent need for cultivation and validation of the self; furthermore, in these particular times, we must locate that need at the intersection of the private and public realms, where questions about identity are most troubled.
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Subjectivity is not a transhistorical phenomenon, and its expression has no universal methods or conventions; rather, they are products of a time and place, formed in interaction with a kairos.
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similarly, in a culture that finds its reality in the media, the blog may provide such a world for the blogger. This intensified, mediated identity is the rhetorical achievement of the blog.
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Turkle�s book explores the ways that the internet destabilizes our sense of identity, enabling experimentation with multiple identities or personae through MUDs and gaming, allowing people to experience the plasticity and multiplicity of the self that postmodernism posits (1997).
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Bloggers, however, seem less interested in role playing than in locating, or constructing, for themselves and for others, an identity that they can understand as unitary, as �real.�
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The blog thus seems to us to be a counter-movement to postmodern destabilization, a �backward motion toward the source,� as Robert Frost put it.
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t is, as Vivian notes about rhetoric in general, �a precious aesthetic technology� by which one �composes and cultivates one�s being in the world� (2000, p. 316).
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the social forces that support mediated voyeurism's counterpart, mediated exhibitionism
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The two former purposes function intrinsically, providing heightened understanding of self through communicating with others and confirmation that personal beliefs fit with social norms
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latter two function extrinsically, turning personal information into a commodity and manipulating the opinions of others through calculated revelations.
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enhancing self awareness and confirming already-held beliefs. The blogger is her own audience, her own public, her own beneficiary
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Even as they serve to clarify and validate the self, blogs are also intended to be read.
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the linking that happens through blogging creates the connections that bind us
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social control, signs of approval, acceptance, value.
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Both linking and commentary create the hierarchy that structures the social world of blogs, leading to the A-list celebrities and the thousands of others, as well as to multiple complexly linked micro-communities.
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the generic exigence that motivates bloggers is related less to the need for information than to the self and the relations between selves.
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widely shared, recurrent need for cultivation and validation of the self
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the self is a result of �operations� by a subject �so as to transform [itself] in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality�
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mediated voyeurism
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unsettled boundaries between public and private
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he blogging subject engages in self-disclosure, and as we noted earlier the blog works to bind together in a recognizable rhetorical form the four functions of self-disclosure: self-clarification, social validation, relationship development, and social control. Combined with its focused and repeated effort, the blog�s public disclosure�its exhibitionism�yields an intensification of the self, a reflexive elaboration of identity.
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a culture that finds its reality in the media
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The subject selects, displays, and comments upon the mediated reality of the internet, becoming thereby a validated part of that reality and defining for itself and for others its own nature�or rather a rhetorical version of �its own nature.
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These early blogs had three primary features: they were chronologically organized, contained links to sites of interest on the web, and provided commentary on the links. The early bloggers were Web-savvy individuals, generally designers or programmers working in the technology industry
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bloggers seem to agree that content is the most important feature of a blog
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design, consistency, and content
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fourteen content-focused categories: adult, anime, camgirl, computer, entertainment, humor, movies, music, news/links, personal, photography, Spanish/Portugese, teen, and video games.
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Rebecca Blood’s widely cited blog entry on the history of weblogs offers a classification of blogs into two “styles,” based largely on content: an original filter-style, where the blogger is primarily an editor and annotator of links, and a later, more personal “blog-style” weblog, where bloggers engage in “an outbreak of self-expression” (2000).
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Content is important to bloggers because it represents their freedom of selection and presentation.
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What many bloggers find most compelling about blogs is the ability to combine the immediately real and the genuinely personal, a combination that represents a refreshing contrast with the “bland commercial” point of view of so much internet content (Whatis.com, 2003)
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Blood also emphasizes the importance of “personal thoughts” and self-expression, placing particular value on a tone of irreverence and sarcasm (2000)
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All blogs contain dated entries, starting with the most recent, and a majority include external links. Blogs are composed of “posts,” which include a date, a time stamp, and a permalink and often include a link for commentary and the author’s name, especially if multiple authors contribute to a blog. The reverse chronology and time-stamping of posts create an “expectation of updates.” We should also note thatthe semantic immediacy noted above is represented formally by the use of the present tense in the dated entries, as in diaries. Hourihan finds that the combination of links and accompanying commentary is the distinguishing feature of the blog, creating connections that “bind” bloggers into a community (2002). Mortensen and Walker also identify frequent updating and reverse chronology as key formal features; they quote Williams, who claims that “what [is] significant about blogs [is] the format—not the content,” and the formal features he points to are frequency and brevity (2002, p. 249).
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Conceived of this way, self expression serves the intrinsic self-disclosure functions of both self clarification and self validation, enhancing self awareness and confirming already-held beliefs. The blogger is her own audience, her own public, her own beneficiary. These functions of self-disclosure are fundamental to what Peter Elbow calls “private writing,” writing that is not intended to be read by others, writing that allows the writer to “value [her] own words and thoughts and not worry about the reactions to them by others” (1999, p. 157). As Blood notes of her early experience with blogging, “I carefully considered my own opinions and ideas, and I began to feel that my perspective was unique and important”; she hypothesizes that each new blogger “may begin a … journey of self-discovery and intellectual self-reliance” (2000).
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