Penser la forme des blogs, entre générique et génétique

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to allow a more precise understanding of the social conception of blogs. The common definition of blogs as online personal diaries is limited to covering the multifarious ways they are used. A blog is a formal object that is characterized by its ability to adapt itself to different projects: as the social conception of blogs is related to writing as an act of appropriation, so the paper focuses on the benefits of a genetic perspective and studies what blogs refers to in the field of communication and social actions.

Keywords

• editing semiotics
• blogs
• genre
• uses and gratifications
• writing