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Absence of Gatekeepers and Changes in Self-Expression
American Popular Culture
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Blogosphere
Blogosphere Demographics
Business Use of Blogs and Twitter
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Cultural Critic and Media Guru Opinions/Predictions
Cyberbullying
Digital Divide
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Product details
- ISBN 9780313384844
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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As timely as the latest tweet, this book tracks the digital revolution as a paradigm shift that is transforming popular culture in as yet unforeseen ways.
Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture explores the ongoing digital revolution and examines the way it is changing—and will change—the way people live and communicate. Starting from the proposition that the Internet is now the center of popular culture, the book offers descriptions of blogs and Twitter and the online behavior they foster. It looks at the demographics of users and the impact of the Internet on knowledge, thinking, writing, politics, and journalism.
A primary focus is on the way blogs and tweets are opening up communication to the people, free from gatekeepers and sanctioned rhetoric. The other side of the coin is the online hijacking of the news and its potential for spreading misinformation and fomenting polarization, topics that are analyzed even as the situation continues to evolve. Finally, the book gathers predictions from cultural critics about the future of digital popular culture and makes a few predictions of its own.
Mary Cross is emerita professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, where she was chairman of the English Department.
