Rise of the Blogosphere

Name: Rise of the Blogosphere
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ISBN: 9780275989965

ISBN-10: 0275989968

ISBN-13: 9780275989965

Edition: 2007

Authors: Aaron Barlow

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In 1985 The WELL, a dial-up discussion board based on the utilization of desktop computer technology, invited popular participation in one of the first examples of what would eventually evolve into the "blog"- an interactive website allowing reaction comments to initial statements, and now providing the primary Internet means for dialogue. The WELL began with the phrase: "You own your own words." Though almost everything else about online discussion has changed in the two decades since, those words still describe its central premise, and this basic idea underlies both the power and the popularity of blogging today. Appropriately enough, it also describes American journalism as it existed a…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




The conception of a popular American press



The rise of advocacy journalism



Debate in the early American press



The victory for rights of the press



The heyday of the partisan press



The rise of professional journalism



The creation of press empires



Domination of the press by electronic media



Alternative journalism



The failure of the American news media



The movement toward public journalism



The growth of the discussion board and the birth of the blogs



9/11 and the rise of the blogosphere



Research, Rathergate, and the power of the blogs



Political reclamation and citizen journalism