Download or read book Blogging the Political written by Antoinette Pole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access to the media by common citizens is limited, blogs have the power to change the political landscape. This bookcatalogs the individuals engaged in political blogging, explains why they started blogging, and examines what they hope to gain from it.
Download or read book Making it in the Political Blogosphere written by Tanni Haas and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title introduces readers to 20 of the world's top political bloggers, providing those bloggers with the opportunity to explain in their own words what they have done to become so successful while offering readers advice about what they can do to emulate the contributors' success. Each chapter begins with a brief profile of a blogger and their blog, followed by my interview with him or her."
Download or read book Blogwars written by David D. Perlmutter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have? In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. Indeed, blogs have scored mixed results in their past political crusades. But in the end, Perlmutter argues that blogs, in their wide dissemination of information and opinions, actually serve to improve democracy and enrich political culture. He highlights a number of the particularly noteworthy blogs from the specialty to the superblog-including popular sites such as Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Powerlineblog, Instapundit, and Talking Points Memo--and shows how blogs are becoming part of the tool kit of political professionals, from presidential candidates to advertising consultants. While the political future may be uncertain, it will not be unblogged. For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new and controversial force on America's political landscape.
Download or read book Blogging America written by Barbara O'Brien and published by Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book celebrates political blogging in America. It is also a beginner's guide to the blogosphere and provides samples of blogging across the political spectrum.
Download or read book Typing Politics written by Richard Davis and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the growing role of blogs in United States politics and the relationship between blogs and the mainstream media, discussing the content and audience of political blogs and the general perception of their role in journalism.
Download or read book Power Games written by Hah Foong Lian and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unprecedented results of the 2008 national elections took many Malaysians by surprise. The component parties of the ruling coalition suffered huge losses, while the opposition was victorious in several states. Many media scholars and political pundits, including politicians, pointed to the online platform as a democratic tool that had increased support for the opposition. In the 2013 election the ruling party turned its spotlight on new media to try to regain voter support. In order to obtain a better understanding of the much-touted democratizing effects of the online media, this book employs an alternative lens to examine the use of new media at the intersection of social and political realities. It explores the ways individual political bloggers, Facebookers and Twitterers used cyberspace to battle for voter support in the 2008 and 2013 national elections. It examines the cultural practices and the social and political affiliation and aims of individual actors, as well as the social ties that subsequently emerged from the use of the online media. This research employs a political economy approach to the media, Habermas's notion of the public sphere, and the social determinism perspective in order to understand the extent to which online media can enrich political life and bring about new ways of campaigning.
Download or read book Blogging written by Jill Walker Rettberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a genre invented less than a decade ago. This book-length study of a now everyday phenomenon provides a close look at blogging while placing it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context. Scholars, students and bloggers will find a lively survey of blogging that contextualises blogs in terms of critical theory and the history of digital media. Authored by a scholar-blogger, the book is packed with examples that show how blogging and related genres are changing media and communication. It gives definitions and explains how blogs work, shows how blogs relate to the historical development of publishing and communication and looks at the ways blogs structure social networks and at how social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook incorporate blogging in their design. Specific kinds of blogs discussed include political blogs, citizen journalism, confessional blogs and commercial blogs.
Download or read book Blogosphere written by Michael Keren and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the web logs, or blogs, of individuals from a variety of continents and cultures, this book highlights the nature of 'blogosphere, ' the virtual public arena of the early 21st century, which alters the traditional world of media and politics. It characterizes this new arena by the unique combination of a fresh voice of emancipation and a deep sense of melancholy and isolationism. This journey through blogosphere highlights major forces operating in today's politics: apathy toward political affairs, resistance to globalization, a quest for redemption through religious fundamentalism and terrorism. Michael Keren compares bloggers to terrorists, arguing that while the methods advocated by the two groups are obviously very different, they both represent a similar trend, one of diversion by respected but disenchanted citizens from the norms of civil society to a fantasy world in which the excessive use of words_or bombs_would make everybody listen
Download or read book Blog written by David Kline and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, interviews, and commentary about the political, business, and cultural aspects of blogs and blogging.
Download or read book Political English written by Thomas Docherty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture.
Download or read book Blogging the Political written by Antoinette Pole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium’s ubiquity, the impact of political blogging on politics and civic engagemment has not been systematically examined. In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access to the media by common citizens is limited, blogs have the power to change the political landscape. Blogging the Political catalogs the individuals engaged in political blogging, explains why they started blogging, and examines what they hope to gain from it. The larger question at hand is whether and how political blogging facilitates civic engagement and mobilization in the United States. Do political bloggers participate in politics only through blogging or also through more traditional activities such as voting or sending an email to an elected official? Do they encourage their readers to undertake political activities, and how do they go about doing so? Examining the activity of a diverse spectrum of bloggers, Pole concludes that blogging is indeed a new and important form of political participation, one that can potentially transform politics and lead to increased civic engagement.
Download or read book Blogging in the Global Society written by Tatyana Dumova and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a comprehensive view of blogging as a global practice, looking at the new virtual world--a blogosphere--populated with opinion leaders and information purveyors, political pundits and activists, human and animal rights defenders and abusers, corruption fighters and truth seekers"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Egyptian Revolution 2 0 written by M. el-Nawawy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution.
Download or read book Blogging Citizenship and the Future of Media written by Mark Tremayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary media landscape. This collection of essays takes a look at how blogs are reshaping culture, media, and politics. It also includes studies of the blogosphere, its contents, its authors, and its networked connections.
Download or read book Taking Sides written by and published by William James. This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents the current state U.S. political debate from the point of view of political bloggers"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Public Opinion and the New new Media written by Kevin Jay Wallsten and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Class written by Peter Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a gap between politicians and the general public. The current British political class is widely viewed as uniform in who they are, what they think, and how they behave. A more diverse pool of politicians would not only better reflect democratic principles of equality, but may even result in better political outcomes.
