The Moby Dick Model for Deeper Blogging
Keywords
deep blogging, substantial analysis, sustained engagement
Abstract
When blogging, getting beyond the superficial to the substantial takes conscious effort. After all, as a casual and social medium, a blog can trap us in the tidepools of everyday novelties and low-level commentary.
But a blog can be used to sound a subject, to go deep. Derrick Clements has already used Moby Dick as a model for better engagement of topics in his "Going Deep in Digitial Culture" post. He says Melville's novel is an example of "the type of profound commitment and thoroughness to a subject that twenty-first-century bloggers may employ" and that "just as Moby Dick stands as a testament to the human ability to commit to a single subject for more than a few minutes, blogs can, if one so chooses, be a great way to dive deep – as long as community-minded creators can budget their attention..."
Original Publication Citation
"The Moby Dick Model for Deeper Blogging" (essentially a continuation / fleshing out of phase two of academic blogging)
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Burton, Gideon, "The Moby Dick Model for Deeper Blogging" (2013). Faculty Publications. 9679.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9679
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
English
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