Blogging /
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Author / Creator: | Rettberg, Jill Walker. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008. |
Description: | viii, 176 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Digital media and society series Digital media and society series. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7351138 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. What is a Blog?
- How to Blog
- Three Blogs
- Defining Blogs
- A Brief History of Weblogs
- 2. From Bards to Blogs
- Orality and Literacy
- The Introduction of Print
- Print, Blogging and Reading
- Printed Precedents of Blogs
- The Late Age of Print
- A Modern Public Sphere?
- Hypertext and Computer Lib
- Technological Determinism or Cultural Shaping of Technology?
- 3. Blogs, Communities and Networks
- Social Network Theory
- Distributed Conversations
- Technology for Distributed Communities
- Other Social Networks
- Publicly Articulated Relationships
- Colliding Networks
- Emerging Social Networks
- 4. Citizen Journalists?
- Bloggers' Perception of Themselves
- When it Matters Whether a Blogger is a Journalist
- Objectivity, Authority and Credibility
- First-hand Reports: Blogging from a War Zone
- First-hand Reports: Chance Witnesses
- Bloggers as Independent Journalists and Opinionists
- Gatewatching
- Symbiosis
- 5. Blogs as Narratives
- Fragmented Narratives
- Goal-oriented Narratives
- Ongoing Narratives
- Blogs as Self- exploration
- Fictions or Hoaxes? Kaycee Nicole and lonelygirl15
- 6. Blogging Brands
- The Human Voic
- Advertisements on Blogs
- Micropatronage
- Sponsored Posts and Pay-to-Post
- Corporate Blogs
- Engaging Bloggers
- Corporate Blogging Gone Wrong
- 7. The Future of Blogging
- Implicit Participation
- Perils of Personalized Media
- References
- Blogs Mentioned
- Index