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Organized by Matthew Vechinski and Honni van Rijswijk (English)
For more information on the project, please visit http://community.uwblogs.org.
To receive future announcements about the research cluster, join its email list by sending a message to subscribe@uwblogs.org.
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This research cluster is build on the premise that blogging creates practices and texts that can produce multiple connections within the university and between the university and the wider community. The organizers are interested in considering the status of blogs as texts as well as ways in which blogs challenge conventional paradigms of research. The cluster will also investigate ways in which blogs are emerging as pedagogical practices and how they can be used in classrooms across the disciplines to engage students.
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The group began hosting multi-authored, interconnected blogs on its site beginning in September 2006. The site is an experimental community space to study emergent practices of blogging. Creating Community Through Blogging will also host a series of information sessions, workshops and reading groups that will focus on issues related to blogging. These activities lead up to a one-day conference in April 2007 to encourage reflection on the year's course of study and map out future directions for blogging as community practice.
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Capstone Symposium |
Experiencing Communities: Bloggers' Perspectives
April 28, 2007 • 10 am - 4 pm
Seattle Central Public Library
This symposium is the culminating event of Creating Community Through Blogging, a cross-disciplinary research cluster sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, which has been working to create UW-community connections through blogging practices during the 2006-07 academic year.
The event comprises three panel sessions, where panelists who are bloggers from the Seattle area will present their experiences blogging collaboratively, followed by a larger group discussion. The group will continue discussion informally at a luncheon between the second and third sessions, and at the end of the day there will be a "poster session" open to members of the public.
The three panel sessions are "Blogging as Public Service" with panelists Don Smith (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and Erica Barnett (The Stranger), "Blogging and Place" with panelists Justin Carder (CHS: Capitol Hill Seattle) and Derek Young (Exit133.com), and "Bringing Bloggers Together" with Dylan Wilbanks (Seattle Metroblogging) and Matthew Vechinski and Honni van Rijswijk (Creating Community through Blogging).
To participate in the sessions and luncheon, please register here. Registration is free and open to all.
Download 2-page flyer with complete program.
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