Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Blog writer'

Följande är en kvalitativ studie som analyserar bloggskribenter och bloggläsare. Studiens syfteär att undersöka hur presentationen av ett inlägg på en blogg och relationen som en bloggläsarehar till bloggskribenten kan påverka bloggläsarens konsumtion. Vidare syftar studien till attbidra till en bättre förståelse av bloggfenomenet och dess effekt på generationen millenierna,personer födda under år 1991-1998.Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer på millenierna och insamlad teori är slutsatsen attpresentationen av ett blogginlägg och relationen som bloggläsaren har till bloggskribenten haren stor påverkan på deras konsumtion. Relationen är enligt bloggläsaren grundat på vissafaktorer samt så har presentationen av ett inlägg en påverkan på läsarens konsumtion. Dettaanalyseras i studiens diskussion och avslutas med förslag till vidare forskning inom ämnet.<br>The following study is a qualitative analysis between blog writers and blog readers. Thepurpose of this study is to investigate how the presentation of post on blogs and the relationshipthe blog readers have to the blog author can affect blog reader’s consumption. This willcontribute to a better understanding for the blog phenomena and its effect on the generationmillennial, born between 1991-1998.By semi-structured interviews on millennial and gathered information from academic literaturea conclusion have been made that the presentation of a post and the relationship the blog readershave to the blog author have a big impact on the behaviour for consumption. Furthermore therelationship is being established on some conditions, by the reader’s point of view. How well apost will affect a reader is based on how posts are presented in the blog by the author. This isbeing analysed and discussed in this study. We finish the study with proposals for furtherresearch in this subject

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>Diante da recorrência da criação de personagens-escritores nas obras brasileiras de ficção publicadas a partir dos anos 1990, foi escolhida a produção de Daniel Galera como estudo de caso. O personagem-escritor foi observado como estratégia para discutir questões relativas à cena literária contemporânea. Foi delimitado como corpus dessa pesquisa o blog criado durante a estada de Daniel Galera em Buenos Aires, ao participar do projeto Amores Expressos, e o romance Cordilheira (2008), escrito como fruto dessa experiência. Tendo em vista a trajetória de sua carreira em constante relação com a internet, foi analisada a construção do escritor-personagem no blog hospedado no site do projeto, em contraponto à figura do personagem-escritor no romance. Para tanto, foram utilizados textos sobre a autoficção, a performance e a autoria. Na comparação dos textos de ambos os suportes, foram evidenciadas semelhanças e diferenças nas problematizações a respeito da formação do autor. Foi investigada a inserção de trechos do blog no romance como estratégia que oferece complexidade nos espelhamentos das imagens e enriquece os efeitos de leitura do romance<br>Given the recurrence of the creation of characters as writers in Brazilian fiction works published since the 1990s, it was chosen the Daniel Galeras production as a case study. The character as writer was seen as a strategy to discuss issues concerning the contemporary literary scene. The research corpus was defined by a blog created during the Daniel Galeras stay in Buenos Aires, when he participated in Amores Expressos project, and the novel Cordilheira (2008), written as a result of that experience. By the trajectory of his career in a constant relation with the internet, it was analyzed the construction of writer as character in a blog hosted on the project site, in contrast to the figure of character as writer in the novel. For that, texts on autofiction, performance and authoring were used. Comparing the texts of both supports, similarities and differences in problematizations regarding the authors formation were found. The inclusion of excerpts from the blog in the novel was seen as a strategy that offers complexity of mirroring images and enhances the effects from the novel reading

Ce travail se propose d’étudier les effets d’Internet sur la littérature : le web se prête-t-il à l’activité littéraire ou représente-t-il pour elle au contraire une limite, voire une menace pour son avenir ? Nous menons notre interrogation à partir de l’analyse de trois blogs d’écrivain dont les auteurs publient aussi des romans dans des maisons d’édition reconnues : François Bon, Éric Chevillard et Chloé Delaume. À l’aide d’outils empruntés au domaine de l’analyse du discours, nous abordons des problèmes théoriques relatifs aux effets du support numérique sur la perception des genres et sur la notion d’auteur. Tout d’abord, nous montrons que le web ne permet pas l’émergence d’œuvres littéraires, puisque ce processus repose sur le circuit éditorial et la hiérarchie imposée par les catégories textuelles. La toile compromet également le statut d’auteur au sens fort du terme, dans la mesure où les écrivains sont amenés à établir un contact direct avec leurs lecteurs. Nous mettons en évidence que cet exercice d’écriture est ainsi soumis à une double contrainte : la notoriété de leurs blogs se fait au détriment d’une pratique littéraire gratifiante à laquelle les écrivains ne veulent pourtant pas renoncer. Cette situation ressort dans la manière dont les écrivains introduisent leur projet littéraire sur Internet : Bon veut mettre l’œuvre sur la toile, Chevillard se pose en défenseur de la « bonne » littérature et Delaume crée son salon littéraire<br>This study focuses on three blogs kept by writers who have published novels in renowned publishing houses: François Bon, Éric Chevillard and Chloé Delaume. This new writing practice raises the question of whether literature can be transferred to the Internet: does this medium admit literary activity or, on the contrary, does it represent a limit or even a threat to the future of literature? By using theoretical tools from the field of discourse analysis, the study discusses theoretical problems related to the impact of digital media on the perception of genres and on the notion of authorship. First, the study shows that the web does not allow the emergence of literary works, because this process is based on the editorial circuit and the hierarchy between textual categories. The existence of authors in the strongest meaning of the term is also compromised by the web, since the writers establish direct contact with their readers. The writer blog thus implies a dilemma: its success is necessarily to the detriment of a rewarding literary practice that the writer does not want to give up. This double bind is apparent in the way the writers use their blog: Bon wishes to open the literary field to the Internet, Chevillard is defending ”good” literature and Delaume intends to make her blog a performance

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:18:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Auxiliadora de Lima Wang.pdf: 1859647 bytes, checksum: b0c9251424f2184cd5c56c7f18f27a0e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-25<br>In his analysis of verbal behavior, Skinner emphasizes the importance of considering the behavior of the listener to obtain a proper understanding of the behavior of the speaker and vice versa. In this work, verbal interactions in a journalistic blog were analyzed to look for possible relations of control among the participants of the blog: from the journalist to the readers and vice versa, and among the readers themselves. Thirty-seven texts were analyzed; they were published by the journalist to his blog during three and a half days, in the period immediately after the TAM airplane accident that took place in Sao Paulo on July, 17, 2007, as well as 1673 comments on these texts. Comments were classified according to their target - whether they were addressed to the journalist or to other readers, or had no specific target. These comments were also classified into categories such as agreement, disagreement and contribution. The results suggest: 1) the existence of mutual control between the journalist and his readers and among the readers themselves; 2) strong control of the topics relating to the accident on the writing of the participants of the blog; 3) differential control by the journalist on the readers writing behavior compared to the control among readers themselves; 4) strong influence of emotional variables on the writing behavior of the participants of the blog. In this respect, however, it was concluded that, although the data allow supposing the existence of these control relations, further studies are needed to clarify these supposed control relationships. The average delay between the publication of a text and the publication of its first comment was 2 hours and 37 minutes. This delay was less than an hour in 22 out of 37 texts analyzed. These data suggest that new technologies, such as Internet and its byproducts, such as blogs, can reduce extraordinarily the interval between the verbal behavior and its effects, while at the same time the reach of the product of that behavior can be dramatically increased. Thus, these new technologies should be considered in the planning of contingencies for the teaching and the study of the verbal behavior. In addition, the blogs, by allowing the inclusion of new individuals in the process of news production, may increase the possibilities of countercontrol by the reader over the press and cause the relationship between reader and press to become less distant<br>Em sua análise do comportamento verbal, Skinner destaca a importância de se considerar o comportamento do ouvinte para uma adequada compreensão do comportamento do falante e vice-versa. Neste trabalho, analisaram-se interações verbais em um blog jornalístico, em busca de possíveis controles mútuos entre os participantes desse blog: do jornalista sobre os leitores e vice-versa e de leitores entre si. Foram analisados 37 textos publicados pelo jornalista no blog durante três dias e meio, em período imediatamente posterior ao acidente do avião da TAM, ocorrido dia 17 de julho de 2007, em São Paulo, bem como 1.673 comentários a esses textos. Os comentários foram classificados quanto à direção se foram dirigidos ao jornalista, a outros leitores ou se não tiveram direção específica e foram classificados em categorias como concordância, discordância, contribuição, entre outras. Os resultados sugerem: 1) a existência de controle mútuo entre jornalista e leitores e leitores entre si; 2) forte controle de assuntos relativos ao acidente sobre a escrita dos participantes do blog; 3) existência de controle diferencial do jornalista sobre os leitores em comparação com o controle entre leitores; 4) forte influência de variáveis emocionais sobre a escrita dos participantes do blog. Concluiu-se, porém, a esse respeito que, embora os dados permitam supor a existência dessas relações de controle, outros estudos são necessários para esclarecer essas relações. O atraso médio entre a publicação de um texto e a publicação do 1º comentário a esse texto foi de 2 horas e 37 minutos, sendo que em 22 textos o atraso foi menor que uma hora. Esse dado mostra que novas tecnologias como a Internet e seus subprodutos, como os blogs, podem reduzir sobremaneira o atraso do efeito do comportamento verbal, ao mesmo tempo em que podem aumentar extraordinariamente a abrangência do produto desse comportamento. Assim, devem ser consideradas no planejamento de contingências de ensino e de estudo do comportamento verbal. Além disso, os blogs, ao permitir a inclusão de novos personagens no processo de produção de notícia, poderão aumentar as possibilidades de contracontrole do leitor sobre a imprensa e tornar a relação imprensa-leitor mais eqüidistante

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>A escrita e a leitura ocidentais vêm sofrendo transformações relevantes através dos tempos. Algumas destas transformações estão relacionadas aos suportes de escrita e de leitura e aos modos pelos quais a evolução destes afeta as relações entre os escritores, os leitores e os textos. Este estudo tem como foco principal investigar a revolução que o aparecimento da escrita eletrônica e o uso da tela do computador como suporte textual trouxeram à contemporaneidade. Em outras palavras, esta investigação se concentra nas alterações e transformações nas práticas de leitura e de escrita e nas relações entre escritores e leitores a partir da tela do computador. Com o objetivo de investigar tal revolução, primeiramente foi escolhida uma ferramenta textual na Internet conhecida como blog. Posteriormente, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, na qual foram entrevistados 10 blogueiros (aqueles que escrevem blogs). Os depoimentos dos participantes revelam que a decisão de criar e manter um blog está ligada à liberdade de expressão, ao prazer em escrever e, sobretudo à possibilidade de interação com os leitores. No entanto, a análise dos depoimentos mostra que, apesar de os blogs disporem de um espaço para interação entre os blogueiros e seus leitores, esta interação ainda não se concretiza plenamente.<br>Western reading and writing has been going through considerable transformations throughout the times. Some of these transformations are related to the media that support writing and reading and to the ways their evolution affects the relations between writers, readers and texts. The main aim of the present study is to investigate the revolution brought about by the advent of electronic texts and of the use of the computer screen as textual support. In other words, this investigation concentrates on the changes that occurred in electronic reading and writing as well as in the forms of relationship between writers and readers by means of the computer screen. For such purpose, a recent textual tool available on the Internet, called blog, and its writers, called bloggers, were chosen. A qualitative research with 10 bloggers was conducted. An analysis of their discourse reveals that the decision of writing blogs is related to the freedom of expression, to the pleasure of writing and also to the possibility of interaction with their readers. Nevertheless, the same analysis revealed that, in spite of the fact that blogs make available a space for interaction between bloggers and their readers, such interaction is not yet fully materialized in blogs.

A motivação para a realização desta pesquisa-ação surgiu quando observei a existência de um distanciamento entre os conteúdos trabalhados nas aulas de LI e as necessidades que emergiam da realidade social vivida pelos alunos, notadamente aqueles que frequentavam escolas da rede pública de ensino. Na condição de professora de LI em escolas regulares, das redes privada e pública de ensino, e em escolas de idiomas, resolvi me aprofundar nos estudos sobre esta problemática, pois percebi a necessidade de fazer modificações na forma como ensinava LI para meus alunos. Diante disso, desenvolvi esta dissertação. Após a análise dos dados coletados, confirmei o pressuposto de que o insucesso escolar está atrelado ao distanciamento entre a forma como o conteúdo é ensinado na IE e as necessidades dos alunos à vida em sociedade, prioritariamente as relacionadas ao uso de TICs. Para a realização deste estudo, optei pela metodologia de pesquisaação, vez que ela se mostrou a mais adequada aos propósitos investigativos e viável à realidade dos sujeitos de pesquisa. A adoção desta metodologia me levou a organizar a análise de acordo com os ciclos de ação-reflexão-ação da pesquisa e a realizar tomadas de decisão voltadas à reestruturação de práticas e ao redirecionamento de metas ao longo do desenvolvimento do trabalho, em um processo que se deu com a participação dos alunos. A investigação realizada por esta pesquisa-ação desenvolveu-se a partir da elaboração de uma UD que integrou atividades presenciais, realizadas nas aulas de LI, e virtuais, por meio da produção e publicação de textos em um blog. Os avanços na produção escrita em LI dos alunos foram efetivos, fato comprovado pelo uso de conteúdos léxico-gramaticais apresentados nas produções dos alunos. O papel do blog nesta UD foi o de agente motivador e desinibidor, e colaborou para a participação dos alunos no projeto. Por meio das atividades propostas pela UD, os alunos tiveram a oportunidade de se expressar e de interagir com os colegas. A construção colaborativa do conhecimento acarretou melhora na produção escrita dos alunos em LI. As tomadas de decisão, próprias da pesquisa-ação, e realizadas de forma conjunta (professora-alunos), aumentaram a autoestima dos alunos, que passaram a se sentir mais valorizados e capazes de aprender. Isso posto, compreendo ser relevante a integração de TICs ao PEA de LI, por meio de UDs que privilegiem atividades que permitam a interação entre os participantes deste processo, bem como a construção do conhecimento de modo colaborativo e o uso real do idioma. O resultado desta integração, como constatado por esta pesquisa, são avanços significativos não só em nível de conhecimento do idioma, mas também no desenvolvimento da autonomia e na formação plena dos alunos.<br>The motivation for this action-research came when I observed the existence of a gap between the content worked in the classes of English and the needs that emerged from the social reality experienced by the students, especially those attending state schools. Being an English teacher in regular schools, in the private and public sector, and in language schools institutes, I decided to deepen my studies on this issue, due to the fact that I noticed the great need of making changes in how I used to teacher English to my students. Therefore, this work was developed. The data analysis, and the students written productions in English, confirmed my initial assumption that school failure is related to the distance between the content taught at school and the students needs for living in society, primarily those ones related to the use of ICTs. For this study, Ive chosen the action-research methodology, since itd proved to be the most suitable one for the investigative purposes and feasible to the reality of the research matters. The use of this methodology led me to organize the analysis according to the cycles of the action-reflection-action research and to practice decision-making aiming at restructuring and redirecting goals throughout the development of this work, in a process that counted with the participation of the students. The investigation carried out in this action-research was developed based on a unit that integrated face-to-face activities carried out in the classroom to virtual ones, by means of the production and publication of texts in a blog. I believe that advances in the written production in English of the students were effective, as shown by the use of lexical-grammatical content used in the students productions. The role of the blog in this unit was to motivate and disinhibit the students, which contributed to their participation in the project. Through the activities proposed by the unit, the students had the opportunity to express themselves and to interact with peers. The collaborative construction of knowledge led to significant improvement in students written production in English. Decision-making carried out jointly, which is typical of action-research, increased students self-esteem, who began to feel more valued and able to learn. That said, I understand that the integration of ICTs in units that focus on activities that allow the interaction among the participants, on collaborative knowledge construction and on actual use of language is relevant. The results of this integration, as evidenced by this research, are significant advances not only in the level of linguistic knowledge of the language, but also in the development of autonomy and full training of the students.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Martell, Craig H. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 9, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Author Attribution, Authorship Attribution, Authorship Verification, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Blogs, Bayes, Bayesian, Support Vector Machine, Internet Communication. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74). Also available in print.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-28T12:22:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2845058 bytes, checksum: 69cba076357700e881f7645bbb9a85bb (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-28T12:22:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2845058 bytes, checksum: 69cba076357700e881f7645bbb9a85bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-17<br>English language lessons in the process of digital multiliteracy and it is inserted in the area of concentration of languages and technologies. This tool is presented as a way to stimulate students, from elementary school in a public school, whose rooms are not equipped for the use of technologies; so the students could only count with the lab they had at school. Initially, in order to meet the main goal of this work, namely, how to make use of the blog in English language lessons in the process of multiliteracy, theoretical biographic research was done, it was based on PCN's and in the new technologies, with support of some authors such as: Rojo (2013), Palfrey (2011). Castells (1999), Teruya (2006), Selber (2004), Lee (2002), Marchuschi (2005.2008), Levy (1999), among others. Moreover, to make the student came to the English language literacy a blog was created for pedagogical use in a task and used as support for students to post written productions done through reading of works previously selected by the author of this research. The results indicate that it is pertinent to use the blog as a pedagogical tool, and that the use of this feature is motivating for the students and can generate stimulating and creative productions.<br>A presente pesquisa tem como foco central o uso do blog como ferramenta de Ensino nas aulas de Língua Inglesa no processo de multiletramento digital e está inserida na área de concentração de Linguagens e Tecnologias. Esta ferramenta é apresentada como forma de estimular os alunos, do Ensino Fundamental II em uma escola pública, cujas salas não são equipadas para o uso de tecnologias, fazendo com que contássemos apenas com o laboratório presente na escola. Inicialmente, para atender ao objetivo principal deste trabalho, ou seja, como fazer uso do blog nas aulas de língua inglesa no processo de multiletramento, foi feito uso da pesquisa teórico-bibliográfica, baseada nos PCN e no Guia de Novas Tecnologias, com respaldo em alguns autores como: Rojo (2013), Palfrey (2011), Castells (1999), Teruya (2006), Selber (2004), Lopes(2002), Marchuschi (2005, 2008), Levy (1999), dentre outros. E, para fazer com que o aluno chegasse ao letramento em Língua Inglesa, um blog foi criado, para uso pedagógico em uma tarefa, e utilizado como suporte para que os alunos postassem as produções escritas realizadas através da leitura de obras previamente selecionadas pela mediadora da pesquisa. Os resultados apontam que é pertinente utilizar o blog como uma ferramenta pedagógica, e que o uso desse recurso é motivador para os alunos e pode gerar produções estimulantes e criativas.

This study investigates the use of emoticons and abbreviations in a mode of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), blogs written by Swedish individuals in English. The aim of the study is to find out whether the emoticons and abbreviations used in these blogs are tailor-made by Swedish users or if they are the same as those found on the rest of the Internet. Another question asked by the study concerns if the use of emoticons and abbreviations differs depending on the gender and age group of the blogger. The method used is mainly concordance searches in a corpus, using the concordance program AntConc to find particular features of CMC. The data used for the study is a corpus of one hundred thousand words from blogs all over the Internet on a wide range of topics written by males and females of different age groups. The results of the investigation indicate that no local variations of abbreviations and emoticons exist within Swedish blogs written in English. While emoticons were used more frequently by males than their female counterparts, abbreviations were used mostly by female bloggers. It also appeared that bloggers aged thirty or younger use emoticons and abbreviations most frequently, suggesting that their use was influenced quite significantly by the age of the blogger. The conclusion drawn from this is that if any eventual local Swedish variations of emoticons and abbreviations, they exist in Swedish blogs and not English ones, as those discovered in this study do not deviate from what already exist in blogs written by native speakers of English.

Climate science and the effective public communication of it havebecome increasingly vital in a world that is changing atan unprecedentedrate. For many scientists and journalists, the Internet hasgrown to be the preferred medium of climate science communication. As the issues thattextsabout climate changedeal with are ratherpressing, it is crucial that thescientific knowledge is recontextualized for non-expert audiencesin the mosteffectiveand engaging way. Science communicatorshave rhetorical strategiesof recontextualization and discursive strategies of newsworthinessat their disposal to achieve the desired science communicationand ultimately createan inclusive and engaging discourse with theirreaders. This qualitative study is a comparative analysis of two different typesof writers:scientists and journalists. The analysis of onlinetexts about climate change, written by these two types of writers, showsthat scientists and journalists employ many of the same strategies.Nonetheless, the findings reveal distinct differences in how extensively certain strategies are/ are not used.Generally, the scientists recontextualized the scientific knowledge in a more personalizedand inclusivemanner. The journalists, in turn, made use of more discursive strategies of newsworthiness. This qualitative comparative studyalsoprovides a novel analytical framework for further studies of the same kind.

The aim of this study is to investigate how the modal auxiliaries will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to are used to express futurity by individuals whose first language is Swedish. The study is corpus based, and the corpora used in this study consist of Swedish newspapers in English (SWENC) and material from blogs which are written in English by Swedes (BESC). These are compared with the press sub-corpora in F-LOB (the Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British English) and Frown (the Freiburg-Brown corpus of American English), which represent British and American varieties of English. The method is quantitative and the results are mainly presented in frequencies. The results show that all of the modals are used in SWENC and BESC. The core modal will is the most frequently used modal in all of the corpora and sub-corpora. The semi-modal BE going to is most frequently used in BESC and the second core modal shall is most frequent in SWENC. However, qualitative examination of shall revealed that the writers in SWENC use the modal differently from how it is used in F-LOB Press. This study shows evidence of variation in use of the modals which express futurity. The fact that the semi-modal BE going to exists in the Swedish material indicates that the process of grammaticalization continues in the Swedish form of English.

Working with an organization outside the public school system that was creating schoolyard gardens, I began to think about culture and cultivation inside and outside of schooling practices. The liveliness of the schoolyard gardens presented possibilities for enlivening educational discourses. With two participants I planted a container box schoolyard garden outside Lamoureux Hall, which houses the Faculty of Education. Utilizing aspects of place-based pedagogy, ecoliteracy, ecopedagogy and a metissage of a/r/tography, eco-art and writing as a method of inquiry, we tended the garden and dwelled upon ideas of nature, culture, and their intersection in a particular place. Our garden experiences left cyber footprints in virtual space as blog spots on a thesis blog site. The garden and the inquiry it generated outside,is brought back inside the education building as a Master's thesis. The garden grew in different and unpredictable ways due to intense construction on site, entwining the planter boxes with unseen variables.

碩士<br>世新大學<br>性別研究所<br>101<br>The aim of this study is to examine the various motherhood experiences of modern middle-class mothers in Taiwan and the social mechanism behind them? This study conducted textual analysis and ten books written by modern middle-class mother blog writers were analyzed. In addition to the contents of the books, the social and cultural implications are also discussed. The study found that, the majority of the mother writers hold a positive attitude towards the experiences of motherhood and shape their own sense of identity within these experiences. They establish a double identity of mother and daughter and further to develop their subjectivity under the existing social norms. These mother blog writers construct a motherhood discourse with the characteristics of female self-awareness and woman-centered. In doing so, they resist the taken-for-granted ideology of motherhood. Furthermore, these mother writers show their autonomy and agency by discovering the gender and power relations within the family, declaring being their selves and taking an action of writing.

Despite the recent growth of social media, rhetorical theory which addresses authorship in this realm has been slow to develop. Static terms such as "reader," "writer," and "author" are often used to refer to the roles occupied by users in social media, although these terms are insufficient to describe the dynamic rhetorical exchange which occurs there. The goal of this dissertation is to use rhetorical theory to develop an updated terminology to describe the model(s) adopted by creators of social media content. First, past models of authorship are surveyed to locate rhetorical precedents for the model(s) that currently exists in social media. After comparing potential historical precedents to the overall process of content creation in social media, the term "participant" is adopted to describe the roles which users assume when creating digital content. Although "participant" initially appears to be an appropriate term, this notion is complicated when one considers the asymmetrical roles adopted on a smaller scale in genres such as social networking and blogs. To determine if the "participant" model is still applicable in such cases, an examination of authorship as it occurs in the genre of women's personal blogs is conducted. An analysis of the terms that bloggers use to refer to themselves as writers reveals that bloggers situate themselves in roles through which they claim to speak for a group such as storyteller and truth-teller. Subsequent examination of the interactions between bloggers and other participants reveals that bloggers negotiate authority with readers in a variety of ways. By using such strategies, bloggers attempt to situate themselves as community members in a manner which aligns with the "participant" model. The participant role adopted in women's personal blogs helps this previously marginalized group to establish a public presence and may also serve as a precedent for models which could be adopted by learners in the composition classroom as they strive to break free from the author/student writer binary and to establish themselves as socially-engaged participants.

Le sujet de ce mémoire traite des questions qui touchent la prise de parole sous forme écrite dans le contexte technico-médiatique du numérique. Le numérique inaugure une série de pratiques culturelles, de pratiques d’écritures et de pratiques de lectures qui redéfinissent les différents rôles médiatiques qu’ont instaurés l’imprimé et ses cinq siècles de règne. Ce mémoire propose d’observer la nature de ces pratiques et de voir de quelles façons elles se trouvent en rupture ou en continuation avec celles qui ont cours dans la culture de l’imprimé. On verra aussi comment ces pratiques et la technologie qui les permet reconfigurent les espaces de parole qui prolifèrent à l’ère numérique et comment ils se distinguent de ceux qui prévalaient sous l’imprimé. Il s’agira entre autre d’identifier quels types d’écrivants émergent dans ces espaces, de voir sous quelles modalités ceux-ci prennent parole et aussi, quels sont les effets que produisent sur la parole elle-même les modes de circulations admis par le numérique.<br>The subject of this memoir addresses the questions of the written word in a digital context. The digital allows a series of cultural, writing and reading practices that redefines a number of roles that the printed media had assigned during its five hundred years reign. This memoir proposes to define these practices and explores where they find themselves in rupture or in continuation with those that prevailed with the printed media. It will be discussed how these practices and the technology that permits them opens new spaces for writing and how these spaces differs from those that existed in printed culture. This memoir also tries to identify the new types of writers that emerge in these particular spaces. It shows under which conditions they write and how the digital media affects the word itself.

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Jornalismo e Informação)<br>Os media tradicionais foram os primeiros meios de informação que o mundo conheceu. Mas com o desenvolvimento das novas tecnologias e o seu enraizamento no quotidiano do cidadão-comum, os antigos media – imprensa escrita, rádio e televisão – foram obrigados a migrar para o ciberespaço. Como é o caso do jornal onde realizei o estágio, o PÚBLICO. Este fenómeno teve dois lados: um negativo e outro positivo. Nomeadamente, no caso da imprensa escrita foram mais as perdas do que os ganhos. Se por um lado o facto de a informação estar na Internet - acessível a todos a qualquer momento e lugar, sem custos - era uma mais-valia, por outro, fez com que o suporte físico perdesse seguidores, correndo o risco de desaparecer. Para não falar que a Web 2.0 permitiu a liberalização da publicação, através da qual o cidadão-comum passou de apenas leitor a também editor. E, como consequência, começaram a surgir muitos espaços informativos não regulados por quaisquer códigos éticos. Destes espaços, os blogues são, talvez, os meios de divulgação de informação que mais competiram com os media e geraram controvérsia. Por isso, na segunda parte deste relatório, figura um estudo de caso pioneiro sobre estes, intitulado: O papel dos blogues nacionais como meios de divulgação do cinema. O objectivo do estudo será perceber qual a relação entre estes espaços alternativos especializados e os respectivos meios de comunicação social, tendo em conta o período actual de crise dos media tradicionais.<br>The traditional media were the first means of information the world has known. But with the development of new technologies and their centrality in the everyday life of the common citizen, the old media — print, radio and television — were forced to migrate to the cyberspace. That is the case regarding PÚBLICO, the newspaper where I did my internship. This phenomenon had two sides: a positive and negative one. More specifically, concerning the written press, there were more setbacks than advantages. If on one hand information on the Internet is accessible to everyone, at anytime, anywhere, and without any costs, and was therefore considered an asset, on the other hand it caused the loss of followers of the physical media, and the risk of its extinction. Not to mention that Web 2.0 has enabled the liberalization of publication, through which the common citizen has become not only a reader, but also an editor. As a result, many informative spaces began to appear, spaces which are not regulated by any ethical codes. Of all these, the blogs are, perhaps, the means used to disseminate information which compete the most with the media, generating controversy. Therefore, the second part of this report figures a case study on the groundbreaking case of these, entitled: The role of national blogs as a means to publicize cinema. The purpose of this study is to understand the relation between these specialized alternative spaces and the corresponding means of social communication, given the current period of crisis in traditional media.