Blogging in Beirut
An Ethnography of a Digital Media Practice
Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners' daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of publicness enables a consideration of publics not as static 'spheres' that actors merely enter, but as produced and constituted by social practices. The vibrant media landscape of Beirut serves as a selection of samples for an ethnographic exploration of blogging.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Introduction
Seiten 1 - 3 -
POSITIONING MY STUDY
Seiten 4 - 11 -
Table of contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Note on transliteration
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Note on illustrations and copyrights
Seiten 11 - 12 -
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: BLOGS AS MEDIA PRACTICE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Seiten 11 - 21 -
Foreword
Seiten 13 - 18 -
METHODS AND ETHICS OFF- AND ONLINE
Seiten 21 - 30 -
I. The Field
The Field - Introduction
Seiten 33 - 38 -
1. Lebanese blogging in context, history and comparison
Seiten 39 - 78 -
2. The local field of blogging
Seiten 79 - 114 -
II. Actors and Practices
Actors and Practices - Introduction
Seiten 117 - 120 -
3. Seven ways to be a blogger: bloggers in context
Seiten 121 - 154 -
4. When "thoughts burst into writing":1 practices and modes of blog production
Seiten 155 - 190 -
5. Blogging as practice
Seiten 191 - 214 -
III. Publicness
Publicness - Introduction
Seiten 217 - 248 -
7. The ethos of blogging
Seiten 249 - 272 -
8. The dynamics of publicness
Seiten 273 - 318 -
Conclusion: Blogging as field, practice and mode of publicness
Seiten 319 - 328 -
Appendix
Seiten 329 - 356
15 January 2018, 374 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4142-4
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