Blogging Literacies

Burgess, Jean. “Blogging to Learn, Learning to Blog.” Uses of Blogs. Ed. Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. 104 – 114. Print.

This chapter discusses the author’s experience with two groups of students keeping blogs for academic purposes in her class. She introduces the three types of literacy that can be gained using blogs – critical, creative, and network – as developed by her collaboration with Jude Smith, Ross Daniels, and Axel Bruns; she attributes the addition of network literacy was inspired by Jill Walker.