Reading, writing and co-authorship in blogs

Title
Reading, writing and co-authorship in blogs
Publication Date
2019-02
Author(s)
Adlington, Rachael
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8696-2347
Email: radlingt@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:radlingt
Feez, Susan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-2640
Email: sfeez@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sfeez
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA)
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/26452
Abstract
The blog is a co-constructed online space that rivals the website as a publication platform. While adults, teens and children author blogs, little is known about the younger participants' practices. Further, despite the blog's interactive nature, the impact of collaborative affordances on meaning is yet to be fully articulated. This paper reveals how blog authors employ the technical affordances of blogs to position readers as meaning co-constructors. Child blog authors and their readers achieve three types of co-authorship by using tags and comments, as revealed by a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) analysis. Analysis shows that blog co-authorship blurs the line between 'author' and 'reader', unsettling traditional notions of writing and reading. Curriculum and policy definitions of literacy that separate reading and writing are placed under pressure by the co-constructive nature of web-mediated texts of power such as blogs, suggesting that collaborative text realisation may need to be accounted for in future curriculum design.
Link
Citation
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 42(1), p. 5-16
ISSN
1839-4728
1038-1562
Start page
5
End page
16

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