Blogging in Beirut : : An Ethnography of a Digital Media Practice / / Sarah Jurkiewicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Jurkiewicz, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Acknowledgements --; Note on transliteration --; Note on illustrations and copyrights --; Foreword --; Introduction --; POSITIONING MY STUDY --; RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: BLOGS AS MEDIA PRACTICE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE --; METHODS AND ETHICS OFF- AND ONLINE --; I. The Field --; The Field - Introduction --; 1. Lebanese blogging in context, history and comparison --; 2. The local field of blogging --; II. Actors and Practices --; Actors and Practices - Introduction --; 3. Seven ways to be a blogger: bloggers in context --; 4. When "thoughts burst into writing":1 practices and modes of blog production --; 5. Blogging as practice --; III. Publicness --; Publicness - Introduction --; 7. The ethos of blogging --; 8. The dynamics of publicness --; Conclusion: Blogging as field, practice and mode of publicness --; Appendix
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839441428; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604016; 9783110603231; 9783110638516; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839441428?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sarah Jurkiewicz.

Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners' daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of publicness enables a consideration of publics not as static 'spheres' that actors merely enter, but as produced and constituted by social practices. The vibrant media landscape of Beirut serves as a selection of samples for an ethnographic exploration of blogging.