Bloggerati, Twitterati : How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture

by Cross, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780313384844
• ISBN10: 0313384843
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-07
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter are Transforming Popular Culture explores the ongoing digital revolution and examines the way it is changingand will changethe way people live and communicate. Starting from the proposition that the Internet is now the center of popular culture, the book offers descriptions of blogs and Twitter and the online behavior they foster. It looks at the demographics of users and the impact of the Internet on knowledge, thinking, writing, politics, and journalism. A primary focus is on the way blogs and tweets are opening up communication to the people, free from gatekeepers and sanctioned rhetoric. The other side of the coin is the online hijacking of the news and its potential for spreading misinformation and fomenting polarization, topics that are analyzed even as the situation continues to evolve. Finally, the book gathers predictions from cultural critics about the future of digital popular culture and makes a few predictions of its own.

Table of Contents

Timeline of the Internet, Blogs, and Twitter	p. ix
Introduction: Blogs, Twitter, and Popular Culture	p. 1
Popular Culture in a Digital Age	p. 17
Got Blog?	p. 37
Twitter World	p. 51
Are Blogs and Twitter Hijacking Journalism?	p. 67
Language in a Twittering, Blogging World	p. 85
Issues in the Age of Oversharing	p. 103
Inventing the Digital Self	p. 119
Bloggerati, Twitterati, and the Transformation of Practically Everything	p. 135
Welcome to the Revolution	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
Selected Biblipgraphy	p. 177
Index	p. 181
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