Posts Tagged ‘Critical Discourse Analysis

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8 Feb 2010

Finally! A bit of time to blog. For the past month, I’ve been splitting my time between work and thesis writing. And boy that wasn’t a pleasant experience at all on so many levels. I remember the pressures of [...]

It really is a hard thing to come up with something original these days. That proverbial bucket in the sea of knowledge is a constant bitching reminder that no matter how much you read and learn, you won’t be able to match the billions of Google’s indexed pages.
Makes you wonder how difficult it really [...]

Quite a lot of students are working on blogs for their term papers and even undergraduate thesis. Those would include me, since I’m working on a critical discourse analysis of the Philippine blogosphere (particularly the discourse of the de la Paz-Pangandaman issue).
Two studies to which I’m paying close attention two are 1) [...]

I remember back in iBlog 3 when journalist Alecks Pabico mentioned “Sana wala na tayong away dun,” pertaining to the rift between mainstream journalism and blogging. It forced me to reassess my position on this whole citizen journalism issue. Prior to iBlog 3, I was a staunch advocate of Vincent Maher’s position on how blogging [...]

This post is an offshoot to a Plurk I posted to which only Jester was gracious enough to oblige with comments and I’m following it up with this post.
Today’s the day many Filipino bloggers have been waiting for – the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards night. I wish every nominee the best of luck. I do [...]


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Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.

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