Blogging / Jill Walker Rettberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rettberg, Jill Walker, author.

Series:

Digital media and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blogs.

Blogs--Social aspects.

Blogs--Political aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Polity, 2014.

Summary:

Provides an accessible study of blogging and places it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context. Jill Walker Rettberg discusses the ways blogs are integrated into the mainstream social media ecology, where comments and links from Twitter and Facebook may be more important than the network between blogs that was significant five years ago, and questions the shift towards increased commercialization and corporate control of blogs. The book also analyses how smartphones with cameras and social media have led a shift towards more visual emphasis in blogs. The book is packed with examples that show how blogging and related genres are changing media and communication.-- From publisher's description.

Contents:

1. What is a blog?

2. From bards to blogs

3. Blogs, communities and networks

4. Citizen journalists?

5. Blogs as narratives

6. Blogging brands

7. The future of blogging.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745663647

0745663648

9780745663654

0745663656

OCLC:

840431750