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The Other Writing We Do

This article discusses the various aspects of blogging, including its implications for academics, gender, identity, and public engagement. It examines the benefits and challenges of blogging, and the ways in which it facilitates intellectual stimulation, community-building, and interdisciplinary discussions. The article also explores the role of photography in blogs and the use of digital tools like Photoshop.

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The Other Writing We Do

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  1. The Other Writing We Do Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine

  2. So Many Blogs, So Little Time

  3. High Profile Consequences

  4. Gender and Blogging “Female Blogging: Issues of Identity, Relations, and Play,” Harriet A. Page (December 2006) Cyberstalking and the “Community Guidelines” Movement Critiques of blogging by journalists who equate electronic writing with femininity

  5. Why Academics Blog 51% described the activity as "not important for career" 91% praised the "intellectual stimulation" of blogging 73% used the genre for "testing ideas" 73% said they enjoyed sharing their ideas with non-academics 70% considered it a vehicle for publicity and exposure 64% found blogging productive to "build community" 63% liked blogging because it facilitated interdisciplinarity Perceived as very time-consuming No correlation between peer-reviewed publications and blogging (neither negative nor positive) Gina Walejko (2007)

  6. June 15, 2005A Typical Beginning See Bonnie Nardi’s Article for Why

  7. November 10, 2005Public Audiences and Testing Ideas for a Book

  8. December 2005Reciprocal Communities Academic conferences, new books, panels, talks, etc.

  9. Building an Audience:Links, Links, and More Links Vanity Searching (and extra-special angry readers) TrackBacks Comments Sections Social Networking Sites

  10. May 2007An Award in Absentia

  11. Scholarship on Blogging: One Kind of Academic Writing “Blogspats: Sex, Race, and Photoshop”

  12. Three Ways Photographs Function in Blogs • To commemorate a particular occasion and authenticate the author’s function as an invited participant or credible witness • To solicit critical scrutiny or encourage particular ways of seeing through ideological lenses that are validated by the collective intelligence of the group • To improve upon the raw material of a digital file by editorializing with Photoshop

  13. Testifying as an Expert

  14. Analyzing Electronic Artifacts

  15. Editorializing about Digital Politics

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