1. Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine
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, 2005 A Typical Beginning
See Bonnie Nardi’s Article for Why

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

8. December 2005 Reciprocal 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 2007 An 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