K-logs

Lowe and Williams “Weblogs in the Writing Classroom”

Lowe, Charles, and Terra Williams. “Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/moving_to_the_public.html. Consider Sebastian Paquet’s personal knowledge publishing, “an activity where a knowledge worker or [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

Gallo – Weblog Journalism Article

Gallo, Jason. “Weblog Journalism: Between Infiltration and Integration” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/weblog_journalism.html. Habermas has come up a few times in stuff I’ve read. Gallo writes: According to Habermas, the public sphere [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

Brooks, Nichols, and Priebe, Into the Blogosphere

Brooks, Kevin, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe. “Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/remediation_genre.html. Their research question: “which weblog genre(s) (if any) engage or [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

“Paulo Freire in Blogland: K-Log Revolution”

Boese, Christine. “The Spirit of Paulo Freire in Blogland: Struggling for a Knowledge-Log Revolution.” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/the_spirit_of_paulo_freire.html. While weblogs and knowledge-logs can appear as efficient groupware tools for organizations, klog [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

Human and Computer Vision Laboratory

I am a graduate student in English at Oregon State University, and I am researching how research blogs, or knowledge logs, work in the academic setting, that is, how they affect research, affect scholarly writing, and affect community. According to their website, the Human and Computer Vision Laboratory at Iowa State University investigates how the [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

Blogosphere: Blogs as Virtual Communities

Blanchard, Anita. “Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project.” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogs_as_virtual.html. term: computer-mediated communication (CMC) groups are these CMCs virtual communities? term “community” [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

Introduction to Into the Blogosphere

Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. “Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture.” Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. 6 Nov. 2005 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/introduction.html. On the possibility of blogs’ affects: Enthusiasts claim that blogs [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

what i turned in today

The journal I wrote on my current conceptualization of my seminar project: I am researching blogs that are used to track and log research, as well as to journal the research process. These blogs have been termed both research blogs and k-logs or klogs, short for knowledge logs. I plan to research as many k-logs [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs

Kish article

Don’t forget to check out an article by Judith Kish in the Fall 2000 issue of The Journal of Basic Writing. Discusses the use of technology to overcome writing blocks; creative computer activities to alleviate the pressure of writing (got from handout from classmates in 411/511).

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, K-logs, Suggestions from others

radical shift in topic

Or not that radical. So, I had been considering that enormity of the topic I was considering, combined with my overly scrunched schedule, combined with the fact that I am fascinated by this blogging research idea, I have decided to switch topics. I had somewhat considered it, but I wouldn’t give myself permission for a [...]

English 595 Language, Technology and Culture (Fall 2005, General Housekeeping, K-logs