Reflections

Creating weblogs is so simple nowadays with so many websites providing a step-by-step guide. It is safe to assume that every single Internet user would know how to operate or have stumbled across weblogs.

As my previous assignments required me to produce materials for print, I am learning something new by creating solely for an online environment. There are plenty of things I need to take into consideration such as:

• The Internet is a multimodal environment with plenty of modes (Kress and van Leeuwen 1998)
  
  
• Every mode has its own affordance due to the modes' special features (Schriver 1997)
  
  
• The culture of my audience to help improve their understanding. Halliday (1985) stated that context of culture is necessary for a text to be fully understood

A blogger also needs to be ethical. He or she must not blog about sensitive or false issues. The blogging phenomenon is growing and ultimately, everybody will be affected by it in one way or another.

Happy blogging!

References:

Halliday, M & Hasan R 1985, Language, context and text: aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective, Deakin University, Victoria.

Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout’, in Bell, A & Garrett, P (eds) 1998, Approaches to media discourse, Blackwell, Oxford, chapter 7, pp. 186-219.

Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Pub., NY.