Mobile Blogging
The mushrooming of advanced technology has astounded, if not baffled, most of us still struggling to keep up with old technology. In the blogging arena, the prevalence of new forms of media publishing such as moblogs, vlogs, photologs and microblogs has been creating talk. However, I will be focusing on moblogs (mobile blogging) in this entry.
Picture this: You’re alone on a beautiful beach and you almost feel the serenity whipping your face like a soft, whispery breeze. You suddenly feel the urge to express yourself in words – poetic words, if necessary. Fret not – just whip out your mobile phone and start writing on your blog!
Do you blog on your phone?
Now, weblogs and mobile phones have come together to form moblogs in which people can post pictures, text and video from their phones (Ward, 2004). The number of camera phones has become inescapable which results in an increased number of moblogs and mobloggers (BBC News, 2007). As today’s environments are filled with visual, electronic and digital texts (Walsh, 2006), the creation of moblogs has elevated multimodality to a higher level.
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References
Hi-tech ways to stay in touch 2007, BBC News, viewed 5 November 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7082566.stm
Walsh, M 2006, The textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp. 24-37
Ward, M 2004, A life pictured online, BBC News, viewed 5 November 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3658977.stm
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