Networked selves : trajectories of blogging in the United States and France /
Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a public self. It examines the trajectory of a practice that embodies this sociocultural shift in fundamental ways: blogging. The book traces the evolution of t...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2017]
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| Series: | Digital formations ;
v. 111. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1: Voicing the Web :
- Why Blogging?
- A French-American Comparison
- Conceptual Grounds: The Web as Technology of Subjectivity
- Analyzing the Voices of the Web
- How the Research Was Done
- Three Registers of Voice: An Overview of the Book
- 2: The Emergence of the Blog :
- Blogs and the Early Web Ecology in the United States
- Early Voices on the French Web
- Concluding remarks
- 3. The Proliferation of Blogging :
- The American "T-shirt-clad army of bloggers"
- The French Republic of blogs
- Concluding remarks
- 4. From Blogging to Microblogging :
- Inventing "microblogging": toward a new web
- Ecology in the United States
- Between blogging, "microblogging," and "curation": a new French web ecology
- Concluding remarks
- 5. Rethinking self-performance in the digital age :
- Self-performance in the digital age
- From Paris to San Francisco: a story of Americanization
- The reconfiguration of pubic and private lives
- Appendix : Research design.