I did a quick search for research on blogging as a writing genre, for a colleague who is involved in an European project. For interest, here are the main ones I found. If anyone wants to suggest others, put them in a comment to this posting and I'll assemble a larger list later on.
Amanda Lenhart, Aaron Smith, Alexandra Rankin Macgill, Sousan Arafeh, (2008) Writing, Technology and teens, Pew Internet & American Life Project http://pewresearch.org/pubs/808/writing-technology-and-teens
Susan C. Herring, John C. Paolillo, Irene Ramos-Vielba, Inna Kouper, Elijah Wright, Sharon Stoerger, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Benjamin Clark (2007) Language Networks on LiveJournal, Proceedings of the Fortieth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences, January Los Alamitos: IEEE Press http://www.blogninja.com/hicss07.pdf
Herring, Susan C., Lois Ann Scheidt, Sabrina Bonus and Elijah Wright. (2004)Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs (We)blog Research on Genre Project http://tc.eserver.org/25493.html
Herring, Susan C., Inna Kouper, John C. Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt,Michael Tyworth, Peter Welsch, Elijah Wright and Ning Yu. (2005) Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up" (We)blog Research on Genre Project http://tc.eserver.org/25492.html
Cornelius Puschmann (forthcoming) Diary or Megaphone? The pragmatic mode of weblogs. Language in the (New) Media: Technologies and Ideologies, September 3-6 2009, Seattle, WA, USA (accepted, to be presented).http://www.scribd.com/doc/15277764/Diary-or-Megaphone-The-pragmatic-mode-of-weblogs
Cornelius Puschmann (forthcoming) "Thank you for thinking we could". Use and function of interpersonal pronouns in corporate web logs. Heidrun Dorgeloh & Anja Wanner (eds.): Approaches to Syntactic Variation and Genre. Mouton de Gruyter.http://www.scribd.com/doc/15277768/Thank-you-for-thinking-we-could-Use-and-function-of-interpersonal-pronouns-in-corporate-web-logs
Cornelius Puschmann (forthcoming) Lies at Wal-Mart. Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blog. Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein (eds) Theories of Genre and the Internet. Walter Benjamin.http://www.scribd.com/doc/15276171/Lies-at-WalMart-Style-and-the-subversion-of-genre-in-the-Life-at-WalMart-blog
Warschauer, M., & Ware, M. (2008) Learning, change, and power: Competing discourses of technology and literacy. In J. Coiro, M., Knobel, C. Lankshear, & D. J. Leu (Eds.) Handbook of research on new literacies (pp. 215-240). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Warschauer, M., & Grimes, D. (2007) Audience, authorship, and artifact: The emergent semiotics of Web 2.0. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 27, 1-23.
Ware, P. & Warschauer, M. (2005) Hybrid literacy texts and practices in technology-intensive environments. International Journal of Educational Research, 43, 432-445
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Thanks, Robin, for all these useful postings. I would like to start by adding a few more references on blogging which I've used in my 'language, literacy and technologies' class.
ReplyDeleteDavies, J. and Merchant, G. (2007) `Looking from the inside out: academic blogging as new literacy´. In Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (Eds.) A New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang. (10,000 words).
Honeycutt, C., and Herring, S. C. (2009). Beyond microblogging: Conversation and collaboration via Twitter. Proceedings of the Forty-Second Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. [Nominated for a HICSS Best Paper prize.] Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/honeycutt.herring.2009.pdf
Huffaker, D. A., and Calvert, S. L. (2005). Gender, identity, and language use in teenage blogs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 1. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html
Knobel, M. and C. Lankshear. (2005). Weblog worlds and constructions of effective and powerful writing: cross with care, and only where signs permit. In K. Pahl and J. Rowsell. (eds.). Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies. Multilingual Matters. 72-92.
Nardi, B. A., D. J . Schiano, and M. Gumbrecht. (2004). Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary? CSCW 04.
Nowson, Scott. (2006). The Langauge of Weblogs: A study of genre and individual differences. Ph.D thesis. Available online at: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/1842/1113/1/thesis.pdf
Carmen.