ISBN:
9780745659558
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (123 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dean, Jodi, 1962 - Blog theory
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Blogs--Political aspects.
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Blogs--Social aspects.
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Digital media.
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Online social networks.
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Social media.
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Electronic books
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Weblog
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Soziale Software
Abstract:
Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to newly emerging social network platforms and applications.Set against the background of the economic crisis wrought by neoliberalism, the book engages with recent work in contempora
