Well this is the basis of my final assignment for Network Media @ RMIT. I will be discussing the paper Blogging Thoughts:personal publication as an online research tool by Toril Mortensen & Jill Walker (2002) as the basis for this assignment. As a result, I will be utilising this new blog as a tool to collate my research for this assessment and as an examination of a number of key points addressed in the above mentioned paper. Topics such as; the act of blogging and the functionality provided in blogs effects the writing styles and thought process of the author, the concept that writing a blog enables a more focused act of research, blogs can be used as a tool for online research and the connection between the private and public spheres that exists in bloggers blogs, are discussed in the paper. I will be focusing on the below extract;
"Weblogs are densely interlinked. This anchors blogs in the public
arena, as part of a communal discourse. Posts to a blog can be very
short and unpretentious. The threshold for publishing a single post is
very low. This allows single, small, insignificant ideas to be expressed
and formulated. Sometimes these thoughts are left as they are. A
paragraph is enough and there is no more needed. Other times, the
ideas grow. Someone links their site to the first post, comments on it,
and a conversation grows forth. The initial post, or follow-ups, are
linked to a web site or a newspaper article or something else. Links
are like roots, tendrils, reaching out between fragments, creating a
context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be
unconnected fragments."
(Mortensen, Torill, and Jill Walker. “Blogging Thoughts: Personal
Publication as an Online Research Tool.” Researching Ict’s in Context.
Ed. Andrew Morrison. Oslo: University of Oslo, 2002. 249-79. p.259.)
The fact that this blog "lives within the same frame"(Mortensen & Walker p273) as the online tools being examined (as was the basis for Mortensen and Walker's act of blogging) is highlighted by using this blog as a tool to examine precisely what it is and what others like it can be used for. As such, this blog is now evidence in itself of blogs enabling and being research tools in themselves and my research obtained to analyse this assignment will be published here for that very reason. The interlinkage between this blog and my RMIT blog and my project website and between the blogs I am following is the essence and primary purpose of this blog.
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