Image: Day 9: Avoid
the beach ball of doom.
The format of the diary is once again
undergoing a period of evolution with the growing influence of the digital age
with its ability to allow the author to network with a vast array of readers
via the new form of digital diary known as a blog (McNeill, 2011). This
transition has however carried along with it the idea that blogs are not all
similar but fit into many and varied types of genre.
The idea that a genre is based on
similarities and conventions (Van Lyun, 2013) may be seen in the different sub
forums within MacRumors. The development of the genre from diary into the essay
into blogs has created a new form of writing which allows for the grouping of
ideas and the use of hyperlinks as these are often used to allow the reader to
explore the topic discussed in much greater detail.
The form of diary now known as a blog is
evolving at an astonishing rate. No longer is a blog just a single entity but
part of a much larger networked community of online social network sites that
are increasingly becoming interwoven with each other. The power of the ideas
expressed by the contributors on MacRumors is further enhanced by the provision
of links to Facebook and Twitter on the front page of the site which it is
possible to follow by use of the link https://www.facebook.com/MacRumors
References
McNeill, L. (2011). Diary 2.0? A Genre Moves from Page to Screen. In C. Rowe & E Wyss (Eds). Language and New Media: Linguistic, Cultural,
and Technological Evolutions.
(pp 313-325) . Hamilton Press Inc, Cresskill, NJ.
Van Luyn, A (2013). BA1102: Networks, Narratives and the Making of Place, Week 6 Notes (PowerPoint).
Retrieved from http//learnjcu.edu.au
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