Kathryn Grafton

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Grafton, Kathryn 2009 Situating the public social actions of blog posts Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 85–112 | Article
This paper responds to Carolyn Miller and Dawn Shepherd’s proposal (2004) that the personal blog acts upon an exigence of self-cultivation and validation. I turn to situational rhetoric (Bitzer 1968; 1980) to further contextualize bloggers’ motives and illustrate how the blog’s presentation of self… read more