ISBN:
9781789201192
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
236 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Media 8
Keywords:
Lifestyle Blogs, Microcelebrity, Malaysia, Bloggers, Influencers, Consumerism, Asia
Abstract:
Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter ́thick descriptioń case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers ́ precursors to current social media ́microcelebritieś and ́influencers.́ It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous and authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles. It argues that lifestyle blogs are dialogically constituted between the blogger, the readers, and the blog itself, and challenges the assumption of a unitary self by proposing that lifestyle blogs can best be understood in terms of the ́dividual self.́
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Brief Chronology of Personal and Lifestyle Blogging in Malaysia -- Introduction: Anthroblogia: Participant Observation and Blogging in Malaysia -- Chapter 1. The Blog as Assemblage: Agency and Affordances -- Chapter 2. January 2006: Blogwars, Hit Sluts and Authenticity in the Personal Blogosphere -- Chapter 3. The Blogger and Her Blog: (Dis)Assembling the Dividual Self -- Chapter 4. May 2007: Assembling Genres -- Chapter 5. Assembling Blogs and Bloggers -- Chapter 6. April 2007: Voicy Consumers and Negotiating Networked Publics -- Chapter 7. Assembling a Blog Market -- Chapter 8. January 2009: Negotiating the Authentic Advertorial -- Chapter 9. Assembling Lifestyles -- Chapter 10. October 2009: Regional Blogmeet -- Conclusions: The Dividual Self and Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog -- References -- Index --
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