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Monday, May 30, 2011

''GLOBAL: Academic bloggers everywhere''

''Tens of thousands of opinionated academics around the world have become internet bloggers while universities are increasingly establishing blogging sites on their web pages. Blogging has moved from being a nerdish undergraduate pastime to an accepted communication medium within the academic community.

According to American market researcher Mark Penn, blogging could have a profound effect on our culture. Penn argues that if journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate. As he says, blogging started in the 1990s as a discussion forum for progressive politics and new technologies but now covers topics as diverse as motherhood, health care, the arts, fashion, dentistry - "and just about every other imaginable area of life...''

Source: universityworldnews

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