Networked Selves - Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France (Paperback, New edition)

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 the Web as a means to publicly perform a self through an analysis of the emergence, development, and transformation of blogging from the mid-1990s to the early years of the 2010s. It discusses processes that have shaped practices of subjectivity on the Web over two decades in two countries: the United States and France. Through this comparative analysis, the book shows that the cultural identity of blogging as a practice of subjectivity in these countries is neither inevitable nor neutral. Instead, it demonstrates that the development of the Web required the forging of various articulations between specific conceptions of self, publicness, and technology. These articulations were responses to both transformations in the daily life of actors and larger economic, political, and cultural processes-notably neoliberalization. The book also explains how the cultural imaginary around blogs came into being in the United States and how it has also functioned as a model for actors in other countries, such as France. Networked Selves discusses how and why actors in the technology field in France have gradually abandoned traditional makers of exceptionalism that were key in the development of the country's national identity and favored notions that characterize the United States instead.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Digital Formations, 111
Release date:	November 2017
Authors:	Ignacio Siles
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-4709-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions
LSN:	1-4331-4709-2
Barcode:	9781433147098

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