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If Pandora had a Blog: Towards a Methodology for Investigating Computer-Mediated Discourse

If Pandora had a Blog: Towards a Methodology for Investigating Computer-Mediated Discourse

Otilia Pacea
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 18
ISSN: 2155-5028|EISSN: 2155-5036|EISBN13: 9781466679603|DOI: 10.4018/IJSSS.2015070102
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Pacea, Otilia. "If Pandora had a Blog: Towards a Methodology for Investigating Computer-Mediated Discourse." IJSSS vol.4, no.2 2015: pp.15-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSS.2015070102

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Pacea, O. (2015). If Pandora had a Blog: Towards a Methodology for Investigating Computer-Mediated Discourse. International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS), 4(2), 15-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSS.2015070102

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Pacea, Otilia. "If Pandora had a Blog: Towards a Methodology for Investigating Computer-Mediated Discourse," International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS) 4, no.2: 15-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSS.2015070102

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Abstract

In the context of internet genre migration and proliferation, conventional taxonomies are no longer valid. To classify blogs between thematic and personal blogs is to blissfully ignore the legions of successful content prosumers, from political blogs to travel blogs, from food blogs to MAD (mom and dad) blogs, from fashion blogs to milblogs. With the recent explosion of social media, the digital landscape shifted and today there are more voices online than ever before. For blogs, however, the original purpose for communication has always been twofold: to inform and to emote. Computer-mediated communication may be overpopulated with a myriad of mixed forms and blogs might be dead or simply, difficult to reach with so much overlapping. Yet high-impact blogs still remain and are widely read. This paper explores the language of high-impact blogs, testing a new methodology for genre analysis to solve genre hybridity in the case of computer-mediated discourse.

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