Discourse of blogs and wikis / Greg Myers.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Myers, Greg, 1954-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Series:	Continuum discourse series.
Subjects:	Language and the Internet. Communication and technology. Discourse analysis. Blogs. Wikis (Computer science) blogs. wikis. REFERENCE. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary. Blogs Communication and technology Discourse analysis Language and the Internet Bloggar > sociala aspekter. Wikier > sociala aspekter. Diskursanalys. Blogues.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Introduction : a linguist in the blogosphere
Genre : what is a blog? what is a wiki?
This text and other texts : creative linking
Place : where is a blog?
Time : now and then
Audiences: a checklist on engaging readers
Opinions : where do I stand?
Evidence : how do we know?
Collaboration : 'history' pages on Wikipedia
Arguing : 'talk' pages on Wikipedia
A note on studying the language of blogs and wikis.

Discourse of blogs and wikis / Greg Myers.

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