Cultivating Community Through Academic Blogging
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric
Publication Date
6-2015
Abstract/ Summary
Although academic publishing may seem a solitary exercise, this need not take place in a vacuum. This essay provides an example of one author’s attempt to create an online community through a blog describing her ongoing book project. She describes how individuals resisted her attempts to foster interaction on the site; instead, they interacted individually with the author across various media in a “hub-and-spoke pattern,” rather than with each other.