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.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 374
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
24 July 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837641424
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
»Jurkiewicz's book, which delves into the dynamics and context of media practices, shows how indeed addressing the online-offline continuum could be beneficial.«
Sarah Jurkiewicz (PhD) is a post-doc researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Her research interests lie in media as well as urban anthropology, with a particular focus on translocal entanglements and migration.
Frontmatter I
Table of contents V
Acknowledgements VII
Note on transliteration IX
Note on illustrations and copyrights XI
Foreword XIII
Introduction 1
POSITIONING MY STUDY 4
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: BLOGS AS MEDIA PRACTICE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 11
METHODS AND ETHICS OFF- AND ONLINE 21
The Field - Introduction 33
1. Lebanese blogging in context, history and comparison 39
2. The local field of blogging 79
Actors and Practices - Introduction 117
3. Seven ways to be a blogger: bloggers in context 121
4. When "thoughts burst into writing":1 practices and modes of blog production 155
5. Blogging as practice 191
Publicness - Introduction 217
7. The ethos of blogging 249
8. The dynamics of publicness 273
Conclusion: Blogging as field, practice and mode of publicness 319
Appendix 329
