Nt1330 Unit 3 Assignment 1
Assignment 3
Title:
Reflective Essay
Name:
Student Number:
Unit Name:
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Date Submitted:
Word Count:
1, 967
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I declare that I have retained a copy of this assignment. I have read and understood Curtin University policies on Plagiarism and Copyright and declare that this assignment complies with these policies. I declare that this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted previously in any form for assessment.
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(Typing your name in the space provided is sufficient when submitting online via FLECS-Blackboard.)
Question 2: How has the division between public and private writing been influenced by the rise …show more content…
I myself chose to blog about a subject with very little newsworthy value. In this respect, prior to the social networking essence of blogging, my works would have had little value as a source for public writing. However, given the quality of my site and the professional (though personal) characteristics of my writing style, I can command authority within the digital community of my subject, and confuse a reader by virtue of my knowledge base alone. Technorati (2011) would categorise my blog within the “Hobbyist” genre. In definition the blog is of a personal nature, written for fun, and based around interactivity with my audience and community. With the content based on subjective comment, the social media characteristics of this type of blog allow this type of private writing to enter the public domain, and obscure the line between audience and producer in the digital …show more content…
The objective of mass media’s version of formal public writing is to gain influence over the majority audience and through that influence, create a financial profit. The essence of social media and blogging is the formation of communities digitally linked by common interest or subject matter and the multifaceted “social spaces” in which people communicate their ideas or sense of identity (Walker Rettberg, 2008 & Lomborg, 2009). By their nature weblogs are an informal flexible prose, presenting the authors personal view of events or subject matter in an intimate form of communication with the audience. The profit driven qualities, once reserved for mass media publication are now applied to a class of individual text often with little economic value garnering its worth from the connection between the author and actively participating audience. Social media has created an environment were the highly unique and varied criteria with which blogs are identified are often mistaken for professionally written word as the delineation between public and private text becomes blurred (Lomborg,
Title:
Reflective Essay
Name:
Student Number:
Unit Name:
Email Address:
Date Submitted:
Word Count:
1, 967
URL (if applicable):
I declare that I have retained a copy of this assignment. I have read and understood Curtin University policies on Plagiarism and Copyright and declare that this assignment complies with these policies. I declare that this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted previously in any form for assessment.
(Date/Signature)
(Typing your name in the space provided is sufficient when submitting online via FLECS-Blackboard.)
Question 2: How has the division between public and private writing been influenced by the rise …show more content…
I myself chose to blog about a subject with very little newsworthy value. In this respect, prior to the social networking essence of blogging, my works would have had little value as a source for public writing. However, given the quality of my site and the professional (though personal) characteristics of my writing style, I can command authority within the digital community of my subject, and confuse a reader by virtue of my knowledge base alone. Technorati (2011) would categorise my blog within the “Hobbyist” genre. In definition the blog is of a personal nature, written for fun, and based around interactivity with my audience and community. With the content based on subjective comment, the social media characteristics of this type of blog allow this type of private writing to enter the public domain, and obscure the line between audience and producer in the digital …show more content…
The objective of mass media’s version of formal public writing is to gain influence over the majority audience and through that influence, create a financial profit. The essence of social media and blogging is the formation of communities digitally linked by common interest or subject matter and the multifaceted “social spaces” in which people communicate their ideas or sense of identity (Walker Rettberg, 2008 & Lomborg, 2009). By their nature weblogs are an informal flexible prose, presenting the authors personal view of events or subject matter in an intimate form of communication with the audience. The profit driven qualities, once reserved for mass media publication are now applied to a class of individual text often with little economic value garnering its worth from the connection between the author and actively participating audience. Social media has created an environment were the highly unique and varied criteria with which blogs are identified are often mistaken for professionally written word as the delineation between public and private text becomes blurred (Lomborg,