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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rettberg, Jill Walker. Blogging. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008 (OCoLC)606285201 Online version: Rettberg, Jill Walker. Blogging. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008 (OCoLC)609338681 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jill Walker Rettberg |
| ISBN: | 0745641334 9780745641331 0745641342 9780745641348 |
| OCLC Number: | 228275786 |
| Description: | viii, 176 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | What is a blog? -- From bards to blogs -- Blogs, communities and networks -- Citizen journalists? -- Blogs as narratives -- Blogging brands -- The future of blogging. |
| Series Title: | Digital media and society series. |
| Responsibility: | Jill Walker Rettberg. |
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"A key text for an emerging field." Times Higher Education " Blogging is a landmark in social cyberspace studies -- and much more than that. It's about the way today's popular culture is actually part of large-scale change in the way culture is produced. Jill Walker Rettberg has written a deep and broad book about the real meaning of blogging as evidence for and a driver of an epochal cultural shift. She deftly uses her own experience as a reknowned blogger, examined through the expert eye of an experienced communication researcher, to reveal the psychological, social, political, historical meaning of the blogging phenomenon. She brings media studies, ethnology, literary studies, marketing, journalism, sociology together into a brilliant explanatory framework." Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs "Jill Walker's Blogging is set to be a key text in its field. Unlike too many other books about blogging, this is no simplistic 'Blogs 101', but instead places blogging in a wider context from the declining supremacy of print culture to the emerging hot spots of social networking, including Facebook and YouTube. One of the world's leading scholars on blogging, and a veteran blogger herself, Walker is uniquely placed to document and examine the impact of blogging and allied forms of participatory media." Axel Bruns, author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage "To date, the history and culture of blogging has primarily been blogged, distributed and difficult for outsiders to follow. Walker's book brilliantly documents, analyzes, and situates blogging, constructing an indispensable account of the phenomenon for both scholars and the public alike. A must read for all interested in social media!" danah boyd, Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society Read more...
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