The Rise of the Blogosphere

出版者:Greenwood Pub Group

作者:Barlow, Aaron

页数:232

出版时间:2007-3

价格:$ 56.44

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780275989965

具体描述

In 1985, The WELL, a dial-up discussion board, 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 century and a half before The WELL was organized, before the concept of popular involvement in the press was nearly swept away on the rising tide of commercial and professional journalism. In this book, which is the first to provide readers with a cultural/historical account of the blog, as well as the first to analyze the different aspects of this growing phenomenon in terms of its past, Barlow provides lay readers with a thorough history and analysis of a truly democratic technology that is becoming more important to our lives every day.