Daisy Pignetti

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States

Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Stout

BOOK PROJECT - 2013 [on hold due to service & admin commitments--potential sabbatical idea!] WORKING TITLE: Disaster 2.0: Stories of Ongoing Recovery from the New Orleans Blogosphere As both a blogger and a New Orleans native, I came into contact with a burgeoning group of New Orleans-based bloggers in early 2006 and quickly began noting how their use of technology (primarily blog and wiki spaces at the time) allowed them to tell stories that are more sustained, more thorough, and more authentic. Now their posts extend to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Flickr and YouTube/Vimeo; however, the blog remains the space in which they create thought-provoking content ...