On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Douglas Eyman wrote:
I can't speak to this particular use, but I will say that when I've had my students use blogs to record and discuss the issues raised in our classes, I've made sure that they understand that their words are public (part of the point of class-based blogging) and that the authors they are responding to may in fact read their responses.
and I for one have done so in a couple comment sections somewhere sometime myself. I see no problem with this - after all we publish our work so it may be discussed, critiqued and extended - public. The nature of scholarship and dissemination shifts in internet- mediated spaces - we know this "in theory" as internet researcher - and yet we are so surprised we cant control how it shifts. :) r Radhika Gajjala radhika@cyberdiva.org Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog