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Blogs and Wikis have not been with us for long, but have made a huge impact on society. Wikipedia is the best known exemplar of the wiki, a collaborative site that leads to a single text claimed by no-one; blogs, or web-logs, have exploded into the mainstream through novelisations, film adaptations and have gathered huge followings. Blogs and wikis also serve to provide a coherent basis for a discourse analysis of specific web language. What makes these forms distinctive as genres, and what ramifications does the technology have on the language? Myers looks at how blogs and wikis: *allow for easier than ever publication *can claim to challenge institutional hierarchies *provide alternate perspectives on events *exemplify globalization *challenge demarcations between the personal and the public *construct new communities and more Drawing on a wide range of popular blogs and wikis, the book works alongside an author blog that contains regularly updated links, references and a glossary. An essential textbook for upper level undergraduates on linguistics and language studies courses, it elucidates, informs and offers insights into a major new type of discourse. This coursebook will include a companion website.
List of contents
Preface
1. Introduction: A Linguist in the Blogosphere
2 . Genre: What is a Blog? What is a Wiki?
3. Text: What's in a Link?
4. Spaces: Where is the Blogger?
5. Time: Writing for the Moment
6. Audience: Who Reads this Stuff?
7. Opinions: Where Do I Stand?
8. Evidence: How Do We Know?
9. Facts: How Wikipedia Grows
10. Collaboration: Revision and Interaction in Wikipedia
11. Studying Blogs and Wikis: Where Do I Start?
Glossary
References
Links
Index
About the author
Greg Myers is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Lancaster University, UK. Visit his blog: The Language of Blogs [http://thelanguageofblogs.typepad.com/]
