Call for an intern. weblog project
 
Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite you to join the
international networking study on "Textual and linguistic aspects of
blogging". By way of announcement on our website mediensprache.net
we intend to launch an international collaborative networking
project, the results of which are to be published in our
online-series Networx and/or in another form.
Target of the planned networking project
is to draw up a comparative linguistic and cultural study on
textual and linguistic aspects of the very young form of online-communication 'weblogging'
or 'blogging'. Medially weblog or blog is first of all a text medium;
technically, it is a website on which new posts along a time axis appear
automatically and periodically. New posts appear on the top of the page, older
posts are in reverse chronological order (for archiving purposes). A
prototypical weblog is a personal website of an author, on which texts, pictures
etc. are published in connection with a specific subject (mono-thematically).
Not only the parameters "individuality" and "archival function" have crucial and
constitutive importance but also the "networking" element. By linking one blog
with others, exchanging links in form of a web-ring and by means of special
blog-features such as TrackBack or PingBack, a complex network is created, known
as blogosphere.
[compare also
Wikipedia (en)
and Wikipedia (de)]
The cooperating partners
are (for the time being): Chinese (Zhu),
(US-)Englisch (de Gerdes), German (Schlobinski/Siever), Hungarian (Vurczer), Italian (Moraldo),
Japanese (Shirai), Polish (Kowalczyk), Portuguese (Almeida/Sieberg), Russian (Shchipitsina), Spanish (Franco),
Swedish (Pettersson), Turkish (Demir) Basic conditions and preparatory work
have been defined as follows and will be made
available in a protected sphere in order to guarantee an optimal
comparability. 1. All items mentioned below
will be made available by the media-language team in a protected
sphere on our site for a period of four weeks beginning 1.4. in
order to be commented on and discussed. Thereafter the items will be
reviewed and made available to all project members:
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Annotated list of links and literature
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Pattern of analysis for linguistic features (extendible
without restrictions)
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Pattern for hyper-textual analysis (extendible without
restrictions)
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Table for corpus information
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List of blogs to be analysed within the scope of the project
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Important literature, also as pdf-documents
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Mail addresses of all participants in the project.
2. Corpus specification
(a) N = 30, consisting of
5 professional ones and 25 private ones; the themes have to be specified;
(b) number of characters of each blog (approx. 4,000).
3. Conditions for the presentation of the
analysis
The analysis is made in German, English or in the
language of the respective nation. The maximum is 25 pages à 30
lines with 60 characters without attachment. No subheadings.
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Summary in English (max. of 1/2 to 1 page)
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Blogosphere in X (max. 2 pages; background
information on the respective nations, research; X = Germany,
Japan etc.)
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Empirical basis (max .1/2 to 1 page à attachment)
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(Hyper-)textual structure
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Linguistic aspects and features
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Results and perspectives (max. 1 page )
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Literature/internet addresses
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Attachment with a survey in form of a table
plus offline-corpus (optionally)
Date of completion
September 2005
Date of publication
End 2005
Contact
Peter Schlobinski (pschlobi@uos.de)
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erstellt: 15.02.2005
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aktualisiert: 17.04.2005
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