Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs
A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Russell Macdougall (0000-0002-3362-5942, Emerson College, corresponding author), Robert Macdougall (0000-0002-1383-6275, Emerson College) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 575-599 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764205280922 |
| OpenAlex | W1993727057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 27 |
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan press that promises to bring McLuhan's tribal context one step closer to fulfillment. At their worst, blogs represent the latest form of mass-mediated triviality and celebrity spectacle, with the potential to create and sustain insulated enclaves of intolerance predicated on little more than personal illusion, rumor, and politically motivated innuendo. Employing first a medium theoretic and then a symbolic interactionist lens, the present study considers some of the key structural features of news blogs and discusses some of the personal, social, and political significances of blogs and blogging
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology) · Ethos · Identity (music) · Internet privacy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Population · Public relations · Rumor · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics
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Internet Authorship
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Entering the blogosphere
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Questioning the Selective Exposure to News
The e-Rise and Fall of Social Problems
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Orality and Literacy
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Structure and Forms of Use
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Telepresence via Television
Voters, Candidates, and Campaigns in the New Information Age
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Community Networks and Cultural Intermediaries
The Whole World is Watching
News as Reality TV
The Web and its Journalisms
Understanding media
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Being and Nothingness
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |