Friday, 6/11
12:30pm
Communication 321_Lunch will be served_
*Blogging for the Rest of Us*
For the last year I have been studying individually authored blogs and political blogs. I will discuss why people blog, why I believe blogging is like having a private radio station, and how democracy will be impacted by blogs and related Internet tools. The research was conducted in two milieux: blogging in and around Stanford University, and Burlington, Vermont where one of my students studied the use of blogs and other Internet tools in the Howard Dean campaign.
Bonnie A. Nardi is an anthropologist in the School of Information andComputer Science at UC Irvine. She is the author of A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing (MIT Press, 1993) editor of Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (MIT Press, 1996), and co-author of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (MIT Press, 1999).