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The rise of the blogosphere / Aaron Barlow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007Description: xxvi, 200 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0275989968
  • 9780275989965
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4 22
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.O62 B37 2007
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The conception of a popular American press -- 2. The rise of advocacy journalism -- 3. Debate in the early American press -- 4. The victory for rights of the press -- 5. The heyday of the partisan press -- 6. The rise of professional journalism -- 7. The creation of press empires -- 8. Domination of the press by electronic media -- 9. Alternative journalism -- 10. The failure of the American news media -- 11. The movement toward public journalism -- 12. The growth of the discussion boards and the birth of the blogs -- 13. 9/11 and the rise of the blogosphere -- 14. Research, Rathergate, and the power of the blogs -- 15. Political reclamation and citizen journalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Review: "In this book, which is the first to provide readers with a cultural/historical account of the blog, as well as the first to analyze the different aspects of this growing phenomenon in terms of its past, Aaron Barlow provides lay readers with a thorough history and analysis of a truly democratic technology that is becoming more important to our lives every day."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The conception of a popular American press -- 2. The rise of advocacy journalism -- 3. Debate in the early American press -- 4. The victory for rights of the press -- 5. The heyday of the partisan press -- 6. The rise of professional journalism -- 7. The creation of press empires -- 8. Domination of the press by electronic media -- 9. Alternative journalism -- 10. The failure of the American news media -- 11. The movement toward public journalism -- 12. The growth of the discussion boards and the birth of the blogs -- 13. 9/11 and the rise of the blogosphere -- 14. Research, Rathergate, and the power of the blogs -- 15. Political reclamation and citizen journalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

"In this book, which is the first to provide readers with a cultural/historical account of the blog, as well as the first to analyze the different aspects of this growing phenomenon in terms of its past, Aaron Barlow provides lay readers with a thorough history and analysis of a truly democratic technology that is becoming more important to our lives every day."--BOOK JACKET.

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