What is Blogademia?
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Derived from "blog" + "academia" - term refering to the academic study of weblogs. Coined in 2003 as the title of a blog concerning a study of the language used in blogs.
With the increasing academic interest in blogs, perhaps blogademia will finally be able to tell us why people blog.
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Also refers to the use of weblogs by academics. This can take two forms: as personal blogs solely concerned with self and also including discussions of their work; or as when used as a place to foster ideas and enable communication between academics in a field.
Last month there was an article in a New York newspaper on blogademia.
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A person that snags baseballs at a professional baseball game by using a device or begging for the balls from players on the field.
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