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May 16, 2005
a little good news to temper the last downer
I had a paper accepted for a panel at SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Assoc) in Atlanta this November.
The title of the panel is _Maternity and Mothering: Rhetoric and Representation in Popular Culture._ My paper is "The Mom Blog: Rhetorical Strategies of Self-Representation."
Yeah. I should probably start writing it. :)
I've got a friend in Athens. Maybe she'll come and visit.
Posted by mryonker at May 16, 2005 10:32 PM
Comments
Good for you! You rock. I would love to read the paper in the Fall after you get it done. Better yet . . .blog it . . . or maybe pod-cast it.
Posted by: jenwingard at May 16, 2005 10:59 PM
Congrats!
Posted by: Marcia at May 17, 2005 07:11 AM
Interesting. I have begun to see more and more conference presentations about blogging -- but have yet to see much published on the topic. Maybe I am not looking in the right places.
Posted by: jo(e) at May 17, 2005 08:28 AM
jo(e): I'm putting together my exams right now, one of which will deal in some way with social software and writing. And while I have come across a few dead-tree books on blogging to put on my reading list, my sense is that to *publish* (in our conventional way of publishing) about blogging is counterintuitive to the medium/genre. Or something. Like to publish, in book, work about blogging, is like trying to water ski behind a horse-drawn carriage. It might work, but it looks funny and there's no fluidity.
I suppose the real fact is that the academic currency is still in books and articles, though.
Posted by: madeline at May 17, 2005 10:49 AM