HI John, Victoria, Delphine and Sharon.
You have entered a blog. Welcome to the blogosphere. :>
Viswasweran calls ethnographic writing research a "tangling of genres" that comprises life histories, autobiographies,transcribed feidlnotes from personal personal interviews,fiction and interpretive anthropological work (qtd. in Selfe and Hawisher, p. 20).
Blogs, too, are a tangling of autobiographical, fictive, academic and empirical genres. In fact, blogging has a lot in common with writing academic fieldnots (see Emerson, Fretz and Shaw, 2001). Specifically, a blog is a web space where you reflect about your day, record your observations, try out new theories (personal and professional), post cool links and, above all, evaluate your and your colleagues' attractiveness.
Tonight you will spend approximately five minutes browsing through my blog--please make sure to read the posts labeled *academic*.
The first *academic* post experiments with Selfe and Hawisher's use of the timeline as an organizing principle, "focusing" (in a bloggy way) on the relationship between technological development and the history of Metro Detroit.
The second post provides links to current news about the issue of universal public WiFi access in Metro Detroit.
The third post will link you to an online writing environment called LinguaMOO, where we will spend the remainder of our time together. So let's keep it MOOving...:>
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