Blogging is a complex phenomenon that is hard to define. The more a blog is visible, the more it is capable to attract advertising and consequently to monetize the authors‟ effort in keeping it alive and appealing. Therefore a blog can be considered as a minimalist organization, a way of doing...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how global and local changes in higher education impact upon writing practices through which doctoral students become academics. The study explores how norms and values of academic writing practice are learned, negotiated and resisted and...