Inklings of the 21st Century - #WRITINGCOMMUNITY
Abstract
This poster explores the online writing community of Twitter, #writingcommunity, and the ways in which writers seek information in a community of practice. This early work reviews the existing literature and determines appropriate research methods to explore the relationships between writers and the effect a community of practice has on their work.
Date
Sep 23, 2020 13:30 ET — 13:45 ET
Location
Arielle VanderSchans
Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University
Arielle VanderSchans is a LIS PhD student in the Faculty of Information Science at Western University. She has a MLIS (2016), a MA in Linguistics (2015), and BA (2013) in English and Linguistics. She is interested in story-crafting and communities of practice. Currently she studies bookbinding through the Canadian Bookbinding and Book Arts Guild of Canada.