Enough about blogs???

Do some online research into blogs as a new media genre: their origins, development etc and share your findings in your entries. What forms of expression are they really good for?


'When a type of discourse or communicative action acquires a common name within a given context or community, that’s a good sign that it’s functioning as a genre (Miller, 1984). The weblog seems to have acquired this status very quickly, with an increasing amount of attention and commentary in the mainstream press reinforcing its status.' (http://mediatingconflict.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-genre-literary-form-medium.html)

My research led me to this above quote, which i felt was helpful in looking at blogs in relations to genres. Blogs are one of the most popular of online content, informational blogs allow writers to share their interests, skills, and knowledge with interested readers.

An interesting article by Frédéric Filloux has also helped to shed light on the subjects of blogs. He quite rightly states that blogs started as "little more than populist rants" but has now "transcended its origins and grown into a fresh new journalistic genre, one that is likely to become the main engine of modern news sites."

I found it interested how blogs have now become trusted sources or even help shape debates. Alot of journalists now use blogs (check out “The Note” a blog, created by ABC News in 2002 and read the story in The New Yorker about its founder Mark Halperin), which people find far more interesting and enjoyable to read than a proper news story, therefore if you want to find something" livelier, more fun, with more flesh, you turn to blogs maintained by trustworthy journalists". http://www.mondaynote.com/2009/01/05/blogging-a-new-journalistic-genre/