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August 06, 2008
And now...the long awaited...much talked about...Qualifying Paper!
Lois Ann Scheidt, SLIS doctoral student, will defend her qualifying paper on:
Tuesday, August 19, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Herman B. Wells (Main) Library, room LI 030
Title: Diary Weblogs as Genre
Abstract:
The word weblog (blog) has been a term of art, rather than of precision, since it was first used in 1997. More recently, scholars have characterized the weblog as a new genre of communication, based on the instrumentality/affordances of blogging software and the themes found in weblog posts (Miller & Shepherd, 2004). The personal journal or diary weblog, a subgenre of weblogs, can be seen as an adaption of its paper diary predecessors. That is, it is usually written by a single author (Fothergill, 1974) using first person narrative (McNeill, 2003), and it tells a fragmentary (Hogan, 1991) episodic story (Walker, 2005), which continues until the author makes no more entries (Bunkers, 2001). Diary weblogs are, in short, in-process documents (Culley, 1985).
Weblogs are of scholarly interest for several reasons. First, they combine the characteristics of their paper predecessors--diaries, broadsheets, commonplace books, photo albums, essays, etc.--with the hypertextual characteristics of the web (Crowston & Williams, 2000), including hyperlinks and persistent location. These characteristics, along with the public nature of weblogs (Lasica, 2001) and the transmutable nature of online text (Yates & Sumner, 1997), transcend the paper format and expand it into new structures. The purpose of this literature review is to explore how researchers have constructed the genre and subgenres of single-author diary weblogs within their research and to situate these forms in relation to established genres of paper diaries.
Personal narration is a common use of multimedia, as well as textual, weblog formats. By including and discussing multimedia blogs under the rubric of diary weblogs, this paper provides a broad classification and synthesis of the full range of diary blogging technologies currently in use. Following the literature review, the methodologies used most commonly in diary weblog research are discussed and critiqued; ethical issues associated with researching diary blogs are raised; and questions are articulated for future research.
A digital version of the paper is available here (700KB, PDF):
http://professional-lurker.com/linked/2008/quals/diary_weblog_genre.pdf
~~Advisory committee~~~
Chair: Susan Herring, Professor of Information Science
Member: John Paolillo, Associate Professor of Information Science and Informatics
Minor representative: Gary Ingersoll, Emeritus Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology and Pediatrics
Member: Norman Denzin, Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, Cinema Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Member: Eric Peterson, Professor of Communication and Journalism (University of Maine)
Please inform Professor Herring (herring@indiana.edu) in advance if you plan to attend the defense.
Posted by prolurkr at August 6, 2008 12:30 PM
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Posted by: Ms F at August 6, 2008 03:06 PM
What's a qualifying paper? Is this in lieu of a comprehensive exam (to advance to candidacy) or a dissertation (so you'll be Dr. after you defend?)
Posted by: Christina Pikas at August 6, 2008 03:50 PM
Hurrah! Are you interested in comments or would that be too late/just make you nervous? We'll be on holiday when you are defending but I'll keep my fingers crossed for you...
Posted by: David Brake at August 11, 2008 06:15 AM
Well done on writing this up, and best of luck for the big day...
Posted by: cathy at August 12, 2008 12:48 PM
Congrats Lois! Good luck with your presentation!