COMM 2527 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blogosphere, Anadiplosis, Danah Boyd

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 2527
• Professor: Nicholas Leshi

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Every week at least one new blog entry. Every week read fellow classmates" blogs and comment where appropriate. Every week reading assignment listed in syllabus. March 2 mid-term paper ( blog reviews ) due. Before april 13 guest post assignment due (guest entry on someone else"s blog or web site) On or before may 11 final paper due (your experience as an online writer and your thoughts on the future of online writing) Up until the 15th century, reading generally meant reading aloud. Often a reader would read for an audience with silent reading, reading changed from a communal to a personal act the solitude of reading and writing is, perhaps, changing with blogs, which are more explicitly social forms of writing. Instead of mass communication from a few producers to large, mostly passive audiences, Software built to support such networks of social interactions is called social software.