I am proud to announce that my dissertation The corporate blog as an emerging genre of computer-mediated communication: features, constraints, discourse situation will be published with Universitätsverlag Göttingen in the series Göttinger Schriften zur Internetforschung (Göttingen publications on Internet Research). The series is edited by Svenja Hagenhoff, Dieter Hogrefe, Elmar Mittler, Matthias Schumann, Gerald Spindler and Volker Wittke and has thus far featured five works investigating different aspects of medial change brought about by the Internet and digital technology, such as individualization in the media and new forms of academic communication on the Net. I am proud to be the first linguist to publish in this interdisciplinary series and it is also extremely gratifying to see my thesis published with a university press that has a modern approach to scholarly communication. All works published in the series are hybrid Open Access and print on demand publications, in other words, you can either choose to read them online (or download them to your computer), or to order the traditional dead tree version. Different channels of distribution are also supported, i.e. my dissertation will be on Google Books and Amazon.
I’d like to thank the editors and especially Svenja Hagenhoff for taking the time to consider my thesis for inclusion and Margo Bargheer for pointing the series out to me.
(Three cheers)
