Week Two Task 2

Blogging as a form of communication

Blogging is a good form of communication and gives you the chance to communicate with people you may never normally do in a seminar. You can express your opions and beliefs openly and in a way that is easy for people to read and understand better than if you would be talking to them. It does take some getting used to and is a form of communicating which i have never used and been familiar with before.Its not the quickest way of communicating as people mat not comment on your blogging untill days after by which point you may have moved onto talking about another topic by then. It does encourage people to interact with one another and share their thoughts as part of the criteria is to comment on peoples blogs.

The audience that i am interacting with is the people off my course and my tutor these are all people who are familiar with the topic i am am studying and so if i wanted to use some technical jargon i would be able to as it would most likely be understood by my audience. I do tend to stick to a writing style that is similar to the way i would speak in a seminar (although not exactly the same as my ideas are better on here as i have more thinking time and plan what i am going to say). I dont write in slang like I would in a text message to a friend but then i dont write as formally and as structured as i would in an assignment. I try to keep my language simple so it can be understand and my audience don't get bored reading it. I do know the people that i am posting to on the blog as i have had face to face conversations with them and many of them are my good freinds so it is difficult to change your selgf image as people know who you are anyway so i try to stick to the self image that i would have in the seminars. I write so people can tell its me and they can imagin me saying it as if i was talking to them face to face and its not writen as if somebody else has been writing it.
I can see how people can create an image of themselves that isn't real when they are writing on blogs that are on the web as unlike our blogs which have been ceated for our media course so we know everybody they probly have never met and never will meet the people on the recieving end of the conversation.

I feel like i am part of a media comms blogger community as we all are familar with the same topic. We are interested in what other people say and use their thoughts and opinions to help us understand more and look at things from different aspects. We alse know that the information we are writing people will be interested in and take time out to read it.

Offline genres that i think could be seen as similar is text messaging or sending letters as with both of these forms of communication neither of them are face to face and they can take time for somebody to reply.