Diary Weblogs as Genre Export

@phdthesis{citeulike:3244544, abstract = {The word weblog (blog) has been a term of art, rather than of precision, since it was first used in 1997. More recently, scholars have characterized the weblog as a new genre of communication, based on the instrumentality/affordances of blogging software and the themes found in weblog posts (Miller \& Shepherd, 2004). The personal journal or diary weblog, a subgenre of weblogs, can be seen as an adaption of its paper diary predecessors. That is, it is usually written by a single author (Fothergill, 1974) using first person narrative (McNeill, 2003), and it tells a fragmentary (Hogan, 1991) episodic story (Walker, 2005), which continues until the author makes no more entries (Bunkers, 2001). Diary weblogs are, in short, in-process documents (Culley, 1985). Weblogs are of scholarly interest for several reasons. First, they combine the characteristics of their paper predecessors—diaries, broadsheets, commonplace books, photo albums, essays, etc.—with the hypertextual characteristics of the web (Crowston \& Williams, 2000), including hyperlinks and persistent location. These characteristics, along with the public nature of weblogs (Lasica, 2001) and the transmutable nature of online text (Yates \& Sumner, 1997), transcend the paper format and expand it into new structures. The purpose of this literature review is to explore how researchers have constructed the genre and subgenres of single-author diary weblogs within their research and to situate these forms in relation to established genres of paper diaries. Personal narration is a common use of multimedia, as well as textual, weblog formats. By including and discussing multimedia blogs under the rubric of diary weblogs, this paper provides a broad classification and synthesis of the full range of diary blogging technologies currently in use. Following the literature review, the methodologies used most commonly in diary weblog research are discussed and critiqued; ethical issues associated with researching diary blogs are raised; and questions are articulated for future research.}, author = {Scheidt, Lois A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3244544}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://professional-lurker.com/linked/2008/quals/diary_weblog_genre.pdf}, keywords = {blogging, blogs, diary, phd}, location = {Bloomington, IN}, pages = {106+}, pdf = {internal-pdf://diary\_weblog\_genre-2886196480/diary\_weblog\_genre.pdf}, posted-at = {2009-03-12 09:09:46}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science}, title = {Diary Weblogs as Genre}, url = {http://professional-lurker.com/linked/2008/quals/diary_weblog_genre.pdf}, year = {2008} }

TY - THES ID - citeulike:3244544 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3244544 N2 - The word weblog (blog) has been a term of art, rather than of precision, since it was first used in 1997. More recently, scholars have characterized the weblog as a new genre of communication, based on the instrumentality/affordances of blogging software and the themes found in weblog posts (Miller & Shepherd, 2004). The personal journal or diary weblog, a subgenre of weblogs, can be seen as an adaption of its paper diary predecessors. That is, it is usually written by a single author (Fothergill, 1974) using first person narrative (McNeill, 2003), and it tells a fragmentary (Hogan, 1991) episodic story (Walker, 2005), which continues until the author makes no more entries (Bunkers, 2001). Diary weblogs are, in short, in-process documents (Culley, 1985). Weblogs are of scholarly interest for several reasons. First, they combine the characteristics of their paper predecessors—diaries, broadsheets, commonplace books, photo albums, essays, etc.—with the hypertextual characteristics of the web (Crowston & Williams, 2000), including hyperlinks and persistent location. These characteristics, along with the public nature of weblogs (Lasica, 2001) and the transmutable nature of online text (Yates & Sumner, 1997), transcend the paper format and expand it into new structures. The purpose of this literature review is to explore how researchers have constructed the genre and subgenres of single-author diary weblogs within their research and to situate these forms in relation to established genres of paper diaries. Personal narration is a common use of multimedia, as well as textual, weblog formats. By including and discussing multimedia blogs under the rubric of diary weblogs, this paper provides a broad classification and synthesis of the full range of diary blogging technologies currently in use. Following the literature review, the methodologies used most commonly in diary weblog research are discussed and critiqued; ethical issues associated with researching diary blogs are raised; and questions are articulated for future research. CY - Bloomington, IN TI - Diary Weblogs as Genre PB - Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science SP - 106 KW - blogging KW - blogs KW - diary KW - phd AU - Scheidt, Lois PY - 2008/// UR - http://professional-lurker.com/linked/2008/quals/diary_weblog_genre.pdf ER -