There has been scant blogging around here lately. I’ve been working on a paper for a conference on environmental, cultural, social and economic sustainability. I was accepted as a virtual participant, which basically means I write an article and it gets peer reviewed for publication in the journal associated with the conference. So that’s where my paper is now – the shadowy world of peer review. I think the organisers have struck gold with virtual participation, especially for a conference on sustainability. The end result is broader participation with fewer air miles expended and more people reading their journal. More conferences should have this as an option.
Anyway, here’s the abstract:
In this research I focus on bloggers’ participation in the environmental sustainability movement. The objectives are to explore the ways bloggers connect their local environmentalism with the global sustainability movement.
The investigation revolves around the role of texts and metaphors in blogging, and what these reveal about bloggers’ conceptions of the relationship between nature and technology, as well as the position of the self in the world. This ethnographic examination of the collaborative and socially constructed setting of sustainability blogging uncovers a hopeful picture of the global sustainability movement, while also highlighting its deep relationship to online virtual culture.
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