Blogging Practices: An Analytical Framework:
Article by: Jan Schmidt
Episode – A Blogger’s Software
Communicative goals are called “Episodes” in Blogger’s terminology. Episodes are surrounded by three structural elements: rules (generalization, procedural and routine), relations (hyper-textual and social), and codes (software and basic architectural). Blogger-users gain communicative goals through illustration in formation of hyper-textual networking, as well as in social networking. Moreover, Blogger’s use specific software to attain specific communicative goals in what is also called the Episodes. The software consist of a selection (media content), publication (author of content), and a network episode (established hyper-textual and social relations to allow continuous communication).
Rules are a plan for action to guide situational performance through shared expectations. There are two different types of rules, adequacy rules (connect uses and guides the process of media selection) and procedural rules (frames the blogs media formats). Relations consist of two kinds, hyper-textual and social. Hyper-textual (built into blogging software) is the result of blogging episodes; social relations lie outside of blogging practices, such as from face-to-face interaction or the exchange of personal emails.
Above all, codes consist of the software and underlying architecture. There are two general types of software (packages), which are blog services (liveJournal, Blogger.com and Twoday.net) and script (MoveableType and Wordpress). For example, a software code is the fundamental of blogging episodes, because it enables and/or restricts certain actions, such as pictures, changing the blog layout, etc.
Episode – A Blogger’s Software
Communicative goals are called “Episodes” in Blogger’s terminology. Episodes are surrounded by three structural elements: rules (generalization, procedural and routine), relations (hyper-textual and social), and codes (software and basic architectural). Blogger-users gain communicative goals through illustration in formation of hyper-textual networking, as well as in social networking. Moreover, Blogger’s use specific software to attain specific communicative goals in what is also called the Episodes. The software consist of a selection (media content), publication (author of content), and a network episode (established hyper-textual and social relations to allow continuous communication).
Rules are a plan for action to guide situational performance through shared expectations. There are two different types of rules, adequacy rules (connect uses and guides the process of media selection) and procedural rules (frames the blogs media formats). Relations consist of two kinds, hyper-textual and social. Hyper-textual (built into blogging software) is the result of blogging episodes; social relations lie outside of blogging practices, such as from face-to-face interaction or the exchange of personal emails.
Above all, codes consist of the software and underlying architecture. There are two general types of software (packages), which are blog services (liveJournal, Blogger.com and Twoday.net) and script (MoveableType and Wordpress). For example, a software code is the fundamental of blogging episodes, because it enables and/or restricts certain actions, such as pictures, changing the blog layout, etc.
