Reading & Writing Blogs

Catalog description

This seminar will familiarize students with the history, theories, and practices surrounding blogging while offering an overview of the tools and sites available for publishing blogs like WordPress, Atavist, Tumblr, and Twitter. Students will consider how blogging has evolved, discuss presentation of self, examine how the personal is political, read and respond to blogs, and create and post their own blogs. At the end of the course, students will be able to discuss the origins and evolution of blogging, reflect on blogging theories, speak about cyberactivism and its role in driving social change, and create and critique the blog genre. Prerequisites: Previous WRIT course, such as WRIT111 or WRIT110. Offered regularly.