I didn't choose the Blog life, the Blog life chose me....

On this page, you will be posting, over the course of 6 weeks, your blog posts for BA1002.  You will need to post each week, beginning week 3, by Friday midnight, and then subsequently comment on someone else's blog in a scholarly way, by Sunday midnight. Copy and paste your first blog and comment to a Word document and submit it on LearnJCU (on the assessment tabe) by Monday 5pm, Week 4. We try as much as possible to get your feedback for this first blog back to you in a week to a fortnight, so that you have formative feedback to help you with your subsequent blogs.  After that, you'll blog every week by Friday midnight and comment by Sunday midnight, collating a large document that we call the "Blog Portfolio" for submission via LearnJCU on Monday Week 9.  In the blog portfolio, you will include your four best blogs and your two best comments.  This gives you some leeway to choose your strongest blogs.
What do you include?  Remember the magic number 6 in this class.  You will need 6 elements in the blog. A list of these can be found on the BA1002 Libguide Exemplar and in your Subject Outline.
Remember to include a picture and to credit the image source.

 Image credit:http://www.james-scholes.com/how-to-create-a-blog-for-free-and-make-money-online-blogging/

Your blog posts should be around 350 words.  They are designed to keep you accountable to your readings.  You need to reference (using APA format) at least one of the assigned weekly readings, like Foucault's extended metaphor of Bentham's panopticon to think about surveillance culture in the online world (Turlke, 1995, p.248). Use its ideas to frame your own or to bounce your own ideas off.  It's great to use the scholarly readings for precise definitions, for example, of power, or networked narratives, or to introduce scholarly concepts that inform your post.  Don't forget to reference the weekly lecture, too (Kuttainen, 2015).

Check out the Tutorial Guide in your weekly Subject Materials folder for Blog Prompt Questions.  You don't need to answer each of these questions systematically, and you are free to address something else if you'd prefer--but the main gist is that you need to think about how the subject's weekly lecture theme and readings inform something you observe about the virtual social network which you are considering for this class.  The blogs are therefore also designed to prompt you to apply the academic concepts to observations about everyday life.  

They are excellent practice at writing and referencing as well.  While you can use an informal tone, you need to ensure you are writing in a grammatical and precise way.  Have fun, though; tick the boxes of what you HAVE to do, but feel free to be creative within the bounds of this assignment to explore what you CAN do. Have fun and happy blogging! 

 References

How-to-write-a-blog-post. (n.d.). From How to Write a Blog Post. Retrieved August 1 2014 from

http://www.deanethridge.com/internet-marketing/how-to-write-a-blog-post/

Kuttainen, Victoria. (2015). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, Lecture 2: Power. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.