Building and Intellectual Community Through Blogging

Dennis Dunleavy
Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

Writes about the importance of blogging to create an extended conversation rather than a lecture....

"Similar to how people no longer consume information through a single source or channel of news, the cultural practice of learning from traditional sources such as in the classroom or in a lecture hall is also changing. There are few people that have the time to read a single newspaper from cover to cover on a daily basis and feel satisfied with the news they have consumed.  In today's media-rich environment, an individual's social-identity as well as self-identity is shaped  through multiple mediated experiences, all which may constitute ways of knowing."

"Blogging can become part of a routine that transforms education into an extended conversation rather than a lecture."