| Physical description |
vi, 267 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Digital formations ; v. 38. |
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Digital formations ; v. 38.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267). |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs -- 2. The practice of news blogging / Axel Bruns -- 3. Journalists and news bloggers : complements, contradictions, and challenges / Jane B. Singer -- 4. Publishing and blogs / Joanne Jacobs -- 5. Can blogging unspin PR? / Trevor Cook -- 6. Blogs in business : using blogs behind the firewall / Suw Charman -- 7. Economic blogs and blog economics / John Quiggin -- 8. Blogging the legal commons / Ian Oi -- 9. Blogging to basics : how blogs are bringing online education back from the brink / James Farmer -- 10. Blogging to learn, learning to blog / Jean Burgess -- 11. Scholarly blogging : moving toward the visible college / Alexander Halavais -- 12. Blogging from inside the ivory tower / Jill Walker -- 13. The political uses of blogs / Mark Bahnisch -- 14. Posting with passion : blogs and the politics of gender / Melissa Gregg -- 15. Blogging disability : the interface between new cultural movements and Internet technology / Gerard Goggin and Tim Noonan -- 16. Living in Cyworld : contextualizing cy-ties in South Korea / Jaz Hee-jeong Choi -- 17. Subcultural blogging? : online journals and group involvement among U.K. goths / Paul Hodkinson -- 18. Fictional blogs / Angela Thomas -- 19. A vision for genuine rich media blogging / Adrian Miles -- 20. Bloggers and the law / Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O'Brien -- 21. Blogs and the communications renaissance / Joanne Jacobs and Douglas Rushkoff -- 22. What's next for blogging? / Axel Bruns. |
| Summary |
"Uses of Blogs brings together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields to offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on current and emerging uses of blogs. Blogging is rapidly developing into a mainstream activity for Internet users, but beyond the popular headlines, there has been very little serious research done on their actual application in specific, everyday contexts. One reason for this is that the variety of styles of blogging - news blogs and political commentary blogs, marketing blogs, corporate dark blogs, fictional blogs, educational blogs, to name just a few - make it difficult to generalize and to imagine how blogs might be used in particular environments. This new book demonstrates the application of blogs and blogging in the full range of industrial and social contexts."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Other author |
Bruns, Axel, 1970-
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Jacobs, Joanne, 1971-
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| Subject |
Blogs -- Social aspects.
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Blogs -- Political aspects.
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Blogs -- Economic aspects.
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Blogs.
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| ISBN |
0820481246 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
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