Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France

ISBN-13: 9781433147081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str.

Ignacio Siles

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"In Networked Selves, Ignacio Siles's interest is in the genesis of blogging and microblogging. He describes the ways in which new conceptions of self and publicness get inscribed in Web technology and are legitimized in public culture. It is rare to find in one volume so informed an analysis that deals with both the daily life of bloggers and larger economic and political issues. The other original feature of this book comes from a transcultural comparison between the United States and France. If an Americanization of the French Web can be noticed, a specific French landscape also becomes apparent. The international research is fascinating and will engage Internet scholars and general readers alike." -Patrice Flichy, Professor, University of Paris-Est, France

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Voicing the Web - The Emergence of the Blog - The Proliferation of Blogging - From Blogging to Microblogging - Rethinking Self-Performance in the Digital Age - Appendix: Research Design - Index.

O autorze

Ignacio Siles is a professor in the School of Communication at Universidad de Costa Rica. He is the author of Por un Sueño En.red.ado (2008) and several articles about technology and society. He obtained his PhD in the media, technology, and society program at Northwestern University.