the sum of my parts » figured it out!
matched anon to non-anon blogger by linguistic markers
are we so consistent with ourselves? maybe I am.
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My name is Stephanie Hendrick and I am a Doctoral Student at the Department of Modern Languages. The working title of my thesis is Representing topic and coherence in online weblog networks.
Weblogs are much more than small pieces, loosely joined (David Weinberger). Two schools of thought seem to be emerging from both popular and academic research in weblog community. One group proposes that the blogosphere is ‘partially interconnected and sporadically conversational’ (Herring, et al.) while the other puts forth that weblogs are topically related communities which converse often (Hendrick, Efimova, Marlow). My own research focuses on how these communities are formed, as well as how they communicate in dispersive environments. Links are often singularly studied as a form of conversation in weblog communities. I believe that it is necessary to go beyond the link, into the language itself, and examine elements of discourse such as those proposed by theories of mental spaces, frames, and cognitive and cultural models.
personally, i am interested in in the process of finding out and formulating why. i am an active 27 year old single mother of incomparable twins, emma and sebastian. and living in Sweden. in the spirit of the great ee cummings, i have decided to do away with capital letters in this blog.