I do this with my classes sometimes but nothing formal yet. I have an "audience" exercise in which I've asked them to write a blog post about something and then I have them all look at each other's papers and read them as if they were all different kinds of people: their mother, their grandmother, their preacher, their best friend, their potential employer, their potential spouse... etc. Most of my 18-20-year-old students right now don't expect that their *friends* will read their blogs; they expect their audience to be "the world" and they are always surprised that it's more often local. Typically, one or two students in every class -- usually those who already blog -- get very angry with me over this assignment. They really don't like me pointing out that their grandmother or their preacher might read their blog, LOL. I expect that their expectations will change over the next 5 or so years, so maybe there's the hook I need to do this formally. :-D. Deanya Sarah Robbins wrote:
I find this discussion fascinating on a level of the mediums that we choose to use to express information. If we get right down to it, if we just want to write and express ourselves then why not just use a word document. If we want to be heard and get feedback we use a blog or similar format. Has there been any research on what audiences bloggers etc really think they are reaching, want to reach etc? The rift between the the ideal audience and the actual audience?
On 8/13/07, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
I would advise you to remove your blogs then because it is very likely that if it is linked to anywhere or hosted on a major blogging platform that it is in one of the research compediums of blogs. if we can find it through google blogsearch or technorati, then it is likely it is in one or more research collections.
it is not that you are putting up a window... it is that you are sending out broadsheets and posters on the fence, on the side of your house, probably into public mailboxes, etc. etc.. i don't have to look into the window to see what you've done, i can take photos from the street, comment on the architecture, etc. If i
a disclaimer won't really solve your issue either, it might be respected, but only if you do it in a machine readable way. a robot.txt file excluding all search engines will go much farther than a disclaimer.