When initially thinking about what it means to blog or what blogs are, I’m taken back to 2010 where blogs were their prime at the beginning of my teenage years. Fast fashion halls, make-up reviews and other lifestyle topics were at the forefront of the internet which later transformed into videos, on the popular social media platform YouTube. With the rise of audio and video social media platforms such as Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube, meant that the question ‘is blogging dead?’ was raised.
Blogging is widely used within a corporate space in all professions. The act of blogging provides a quick and easy way to portray information about what individuals think is important to their business, research or in Rachel Gillies case, teaching. Gillies, a lecturer who taught in New Zealand at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, set up a blog for her senior students named “Lunchtime Reflections”. This was created to enhance the student’s artistic discussion and allowed ideas to develop beyond the confines of course material and class projects. (Gillies, 2009)
Instead of assuming that blogs are dead, perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that ‘blogging’ can derive in all forms, not just that of a website. Introducing blogging into the educational arena can rebirth the aim of blogging as you will, reinventing what it means to blog via a website enabling like minded people to interact with specific topics.
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Bibliography:
Gillies, R., 2009. Students Who Blog. Scope (Art and Design), pp. 153 – 158.Morris, H. C. &. N., 2021.
Kabadayi, O., 2014. Blogging is dead, long live blogging, UK: The Guardian.
Kottke, J. K. J., 2014. The blog is dead, long live the blog, Cambridge : NiemanLab.
Morris, H. C. &. N., 2021. Assessment and emotion in higher education: the allure of blogging. Research in Post – Compulsory Education , 26(2), pp. 148 – 163.