Have gone to Spain for the week! Back soon for all the thesis push fun!

Introduction: 1.    How weblogs are communities of practice versus other types of communal structures (such as Habermas’ Public sphere, speech communities, Rheingold’s virtual communities) 2.    Conclude with necessity of examining the...

Ok, I know. I said everyday but it has not been everyday. The reasons for this are two-fold. First, I needed to really think about my intro before making it more public. I am actually going to post an outline today and would love feedback. Secondly, I...

The construction of social identity is not always an explicit process. We create the stories of our identity through discourse actions; and what may be implicit in one mode of discourse may be made explicit in a different communicative mode (Norris,...

Usually not a good idea. I know. But I wonder if it may help clarify my text or if it would just complicate things. In this text I use parts of Norris’ multimodal framework, in combination with Scollon’s nexus analysis. The problem, of course, is that...