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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siles, Ignacio (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
Series:Digital formations ; v. 111.
Subjects:
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.