About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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ACM: Blood on How Blogging Software…
Blood, Rebecca. “How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community.” Communications of the ACM 47.12 (Dec. 2004): 53-55. Blood folllows the history of blogging and notices how blogging software adapts to bloggers needs and makes blogging easier. She notes that as … Continue reading
ACM: Rosenbloom’s “Blogosphere”
Rosenbloom, Andrew. “The Blogosphere.” Communications of the ACM 47.12 (Dec. 2004): 31-33. This article introduces blogs, gives some background on blogs, and previews a series of articles in this issue of Communications of the ACM, which Rosenbloom edited. “The research … Continue reading
10 reasons
the case for using k-logs in research
note to self
don’t forget to check out the blogging article at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm045.asp?bhcp=1 that Lisa Ede sent me – it’s linked on the sidebar.
Genre Analysis of Weblog – article
Miller, Carolyn R., and Dawn Shepherd. “Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. … Continue reading