Blogging In Francis Faherty's The Elements Of Story

In Francis Flaherty’s book The Elements of Story she states, “Good stories are a brisk journey, and the reader can always feel the breeze in his hair” (2009, p. 70). I felt the breeze in my hair from this story. However, I didn’t read it in an old book of tales or parables. I discovered it while I was reading a school superintendent’s blog.
I started reading blogs when I was taking a class on digital media. As part of the class I was introduced to Lankshear and Knobel‘s (2007) The New Literacies Sampler. The sampler explained that the technologies we use and the social practices in which we engage are wrapped around one another, and the practice of blogging is a part of the newly emerging area of digital literacy. Blogging falls into the category of what Lankshear and Knobel (2007) term “new literacies.” New literacies do not solely have to do with new technology. Lankshear and Knobel (2007) state that new literacies must involve a paradigm shift, and, mainly, enable people to create and participate in ways they have not been able to do before

(Lankshear & Knobel, 2007, p. 7)
Blogging is recognized as a “new literacy.” According to Lankshear and Knobel’s (2011) New literacies:
‘New’ literacies are different kinds of phenomena…or significantly different from ‘conventional’ print-based literacies… Established social practices have been transformed. Many of these new and changing social practices involve new and changing ways of producing, distributing, exchanging, and recognizing texts by electronic means. These include the production and exchange of multimodal forms of texts that can arrive via digital code as sound, text, images, video, animation, and any combinations of these. (p.