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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London ; New York :
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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.