Virginia Woolf made a big deal about having a room of her own. But wireless mobility is pushing writers into wider environments, not only transforming the relationship between writers and their means of research and expression, but that expression itself. “Writing in the Wild, A Paradigm for Mobile Composition” discusses the value and possibilities …
Category Archive: Biggity blogging.
Jan 09
Damning the Metaphor: Dr. Danah Boyd on Re-Interpreting Blogs & Blogging Culture
Dr. Danah Boyd, a scholar on media communications and “other intersections between technology and society,” as well as a contributor to the development of Blogger, notes that Internet platforms which furnish blogging tools have set the formal definitions for blogging. For most Internet cruisers, “blog” is a term synonymous with the concept of “public journaling.” …