Scholars, students and bloggers will find a lively survey of blogging that contextualises blogs in terms of critical theory and the history of. Read blogging by jill walker rettberg available from rakuten kobo. Oct 30, 2008 blogging the social blogs are a social genres, rettberg writes, and. Because blogging is a cumulative process, most posts presuppose some knowledge of the history of the blog, and they fit into a larger story. With the understanding that blogs have morphed and changed through time, how or where is the practice of blogging today. Linking is, in fact, one of the things discussed in this chapter that helps to define what a blog is. Associate professor jill walker rettberg, university of bergen uib. Jo u rn a l o f c o m m u n ica tio n is s n 0 0 2 1 9 9 1 6. Over 68,800 customers in more than 100 countries use hubspots awardwinning software to attract, engage and delight their customers. As recently as this summer a blogger for the economist by the name of m. Seeing ourselves through technology how we use selfies. Walker rettberg, a prominent academic blogger, has taken on the task of defining, historicizing. Blogging provides an especially d etailed d iscu ssion of the relation ship betw een citizen an d p rofession al jou rnalism, a debate that has p ersisted over.
Our mission is to create the best open source tools for independent journalists and writers across the world, and have a. Jill walker rettberg discusses the ways blogs are integrated into todays mainstream social media ecology, where comments and links from twitter and facebook may be more important than the network between blogs that was significant five years ago, and questions the shift towards increased commercialization and corporate control of blogs. During that actionpacked weekend, i also jotted down a page full of free blogging tools that i couldnt wait to try. Interview with jill walker rettberg, acm sigweb newsletter. This short talk is about how blogs are being used for learning. This is a key piece of scholarship for anyone trying to understand the intersection of technology and. Jill walker rettberg collaborative creativity in new media.
Blogging has changed the way information is delivered and the speed at which it is accessible, a vast difference from the way a centralized media once controlled such. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like. Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet toda. Blogging article about blogging by the free dictionary. Blogging by jill walker rettberg pdf free download ebook. Covering new media studies, digital humanities, electronic literature and art, digital gaming, and other areas, the volume is impressively broad and deep. Blogging digital media and society dms digital media and. From the perspective of a newcomer to blogging, i find the formal definition can better accommodate my. Blogging second edition jill walker rettberg polity. Learn more about hubspot marketing hub hubspots software makes it easy for businesses to start blogging, generating leads from their website content, and growing their business online. Im jill walker rettberg, professor of digital culture at the university of bergen. Hall didnt start using blogging software until 2003.
Blogging is a relatively type of free form social software, and are decentralized p. That slipperiness or flexibility in tone and purpose is why jill walker rettbergs 2014 2nd edition of her definitive book blogging is so helpful. A year later in 2014, in the book blogging, jill rettberg walker, stated that blogs form the backbone of social media 24. Blogging software publish quality blog content optimized to drive traffic and convert readers into customers, all with a full suite of integrated blogging tools. Ghost was founded in april 20, after a very successful kickstarter campaign to create a new platform focused solely on professional publishing. Jill shaul partner rewind and fast forward were going back to the future in our data center time machine then exploring a new way to be the people that our customers know, like, and trust. The 2nd edition of blogging incudes updates and revisions that reflect rapid developments in the blogosphere during the five years since the 1st edition was published. Jill walker rettberg analyses these and related genres as three intertwined modes of selfrepresentation. Jill walker rettberg has shared her research in social media since october 2000, when she started her stillactive research blog, jill txt. Do we want to be able to predict an election result. Other scholar bloggers, like jill walker rettberg at the wellknown blog jill txt, see in weblogs sufficient structural regularity to enable the technique of presentation to frame her definition of the medium her definition is here. Jill walker rettberg is professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at the university of bergen, norway. Im going to start by talking about blogging as a way of using writing to learn.
Nov 17, 2015 blogging by jill walker rettberg in djvu, fb2, txt download ebook. Jill walker rettberg s book brilliantly documents, analyses and situates blogging, constructing an indispensable account of blogging s history and future in light of social network sites, mobile practices and other mediasharing platforms. That slipperiness or flexibility in tone and purpose is why jill walker rettberg s 2014 2nd edition of her definitive book blogging is so helpful. This booklength study of a now everyday phenomenon provides a close look at blogging while placing it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context. Jill walker rettberg discusses the ways blogs are integrated into todays mainstream social media ecology, where comments and links from twitter and facebook may be more important. Blogging archaeology and the archaeology of blogging the. Her main research interest is how we tell stories online, and she has published on electronic literature, social media, blogging, selfrepresentations online, personal visualisations and visualising data from the elmcip electronic literature. Jill walker rettberg has shared her research in social media since october 2000, when she started her stillactive research blog, jilltxt. In 2016, she began making research stories for snapchat, which you can follow by adding jilltxt on snapchat, or you can see an archive of selected snapchat research stories on youtube. Blogging defined so i read the first chapter of that book blogging by jill walker rettberg, which you can buy using that convenient link i just made. Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communicatio. Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a genre invented less than a decade ago. She is the author of blogging polity press, 2008 and coeditor of digital culture, play and identity. Jill walker rettberg, university of bergen, department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies, faculty member.
Seeing ourselves through technology how we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves walker rettberg jill isbn. Jill walker rettberg has written a deep and broad book about the real meaning of blogging as evidence for and a driver of an epochal cultural shift. Its about the way todays popular culture is actually part of largescale change in the way culture is produced. Theres a very different sense of rhythm and continuity when you follow a blog, or a group of blogs, over time, compared to simply read. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. In 2016, she began making research stories for snapchat, which you can follow by adding jilltxt on snapchat, or you can see an archive.
Jun 17, 2008 blogging is a landmark in social cyberspace studies and much more than that. Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a. The second edition takes into account the most recent research and developments and provides current analyses of new tools for microblogging and visual blogging. Jan 01, 2011 interview with jill walker rettberg claus atzenbeck german university in cairo, egypt jill walker rettberg is associate professor of digital culture at the university of bergen, where she researches online narratives and social media. By combining theories of agency in artworks and materials with a software studies. Walker rettberg, a pr ominent academic blogger, has taken on the task of defining, historicizing. Blogging is a landmark in social cyberspace studies and much more than that. Her book blogging was published in a 2nd edition by polity press in 2014, and she has also coedited an anthology of critical writing on world of warcraft mit. Studies social media, new media art, and electronic literature. She deftly uses her own experience as a renowned blogger, examined through the expert eye of an experienced communication researcher, to reveal the psychological, social, political and historical.
Electronic literature seen from a distance the beginnings of a field by jill walker rettberg this paper outlines the development of the hypertext fiction community that developed in the united states of america from the late eighties and onwards. Jill walker rettberg university of bergen academia. Net blogging software and options in order of increasing simplicity, it only makes sense that the blogengine. Rettberg u ses this d iscussion to contrast blogs w ith the onetomany afford an cesofm assm ed ia an d th e p rofessional norms that h ave evolved alongside of them. Blogging as a tool for reflection and learning associate professor jill walker rettberg, university of bergen uib. The evolution of personal style blogging, as seen through. Blogging ebook by jill walker rettberg rakuten kobo. Other scholar bloggers, like jill walker rettberg at the wellknown blog jilltxt, see in weblogs sufficient structural regularity to enable the technique of presentation to frame her definition of the medium her definition is here. Blogging by jill walker rettberg in djvu, fb2, txt download ebook. Jill walker rettberg is professor of digital culture at the university of bergen, norway.
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