- 204 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Timeline of the Internet, Blogs, and Twitter
- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Blogs, Twitter, and Popular Culture
- CHAPTER TWO: Popular Culture in a Digital Age
- CHAPTER THREE: Got Blog?
- CHAPTER FOUR: Twitter World
- CHAPTER FIVE: Are Blogs and Twitter Hijacking Journalism?
- CHAPTER SIX: Language in a Twittering, Blogging World
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Issues in the Age of Oversharing
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Inventing the Digital Self
- CHAPTER NINE: Bloggerati, Twitterati, and the Transformation of Practically Everything
- CHAPTER TEN: Welcome to the Revolution
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index