[Theories of Blogging: Journal Publication]

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture has just published Vol. 6, No. 4 (2006), a themed issue: Theories/Practices of Blogging

In the Issue:

Introduction
Michael Benton, "Thoughts on Blogging by a Poorly Masked Academic"

Articles
Craig Saper, "Blogademia"
danah boyd, "A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium"
Tama Leaver, "Blogging Everyday Life"
Erica Johnson, "Democracy Defended: Polibloggers and the Political Press in America"
Carmel L. Vaisman, "Design and Play: Weblog Genres of Adolescent Girls in Israel"
David Sasaki, "Identity and Credibility in the Global Blogosphere"
Anna Notaro, "The Lo(n)g Revolution: The Blogosphere as an Alternative Public Sphere?"
Esther Herman, "My Life in the Panopticon: Blogging From Iran"
Various Authors, "Webfestschrift for Wealth Bondage/The Happy Tutor" [external link]
Lilia Efimova, "Two papers, me in between" [external link]

Blogroll
Introduction: Lauren Elkin, "Blogging and (Expatriate) Identity"
Various Bloggers, "Why I Blog: Part 1" and "Part 2"

Review Essays
Laxman D. Satya, "The Question is not, 'Can the Subaltern speak?' The Question is, 'Can She be heard?' A Review of Lata Mani's Contentious Traditions: Debate on Sati in Colonial India"
Larry Taylor on "Midwestern Unlike You and Me: New Zealand's Julian Dashper" [art exhibit]

Reviews
Marc Ouellette on Wheeler Winston Dixon's Film and Television After 9/11
Marc Ouellette on Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska's ScreenPlay: cinema/videogames/interfaces