Blogging in Beirut

Download or read book Blogging in Beirut written by Sarah Jurkiewicz and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.