I think the blogs depending on the topic, facts and writer credential may or may not be the legitimate forms of scholarship or news. As people from all over the world have access to the blogs the informations and sources are not limited to only one part of the world. Most of the time the writers have very few or basic knowledge or just an opinion about certain topics. But sometimes the academic blogs created by scholars and professionals can be good and factual source of informations.
The blog I found for my research project is http://linguisticsoman.blogspot.com/2011/12/innovative-way-to-save-endangered.html which is I believe a legitimate form of news. In the beginning it starts like any other blog with general informations with little facts but at the end of the blog there is a youtube video that serves as an evident for this blog being legitimate and reliable.
Work cited:
Linguist Omani. (2011, Dec 2). An innovative way to save an endangered language: Possible in Oman?
Retrieved from http://linguisticsoman.blogspot.com/2011/12/innovative-way-to-save-endangered.html
Hi Sonia,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great blog that you found. The blogger is a linguist, and is using the blog not only to inform others of how languages are being saved, but also to reflect upon how to save Jabbali, possibly using strategies that others have used successfully. If nothing else, this blog would serve as a center of conversation for people engaged in similar work.
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum