Five to start….
One of the requirements I gave in the list of three blogs to link to this week was to locate an academic blog. Though it would be great if members of the class were to identify purely academic blogs, I mostly wanted to push people towards locating blogs where people were writing intellectually stimulating commentary. I have no problem with blogs that focus on more the matters of daily life, and in fact I enjoy them, and believe they serve a social purpose. However, for a college course, I would hope that are striving to locate a specific type of content from the midst of all kinds of information that we can find online.
In no particular order:
apophenia: danah boyd comments on her research in the areas of social networking and other new media phenomena, particularly, I believe, from a sociological perspective.
Confessions of an Aca-fan: Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, among numerous other books, writes about new media and convergence, particularly fan culture and transmedia development.
jill/txt:Â Jill Walker Rettberg comments on online storytelling, among other topics.
theory.is.the.reason:Â Kevin Lim writes about social technology.
grand text auto: A group blog, whereby several new media artists–Mary Flanagan, Michael Matea, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Andrew Stern, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin– comment on the intersection of art and new media.
