BlogwarsOxford University Press, 07/03/2008 - 272 من الصفحات Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have? In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. Indeed, blogs have scored mixed results in their past political crusades. But in the end, Perlmutter argues that blogs, in their wide dissemination of information and opinions, actually serve to improve democracy and enrich political culture. He highlights a number of the particularly noteworthy blogs from the specialty to the superblog-including popular sites such as Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Powerlineblog, Instapundit, and Talking Points Memo--and shows how blogs are becoming part of the tool kit of political professionals, from presidential candidates to advertising consultants. While the political future may be uncertain, it will not be unblogged. For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new and controversial force on America's political landscape. |
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... reader response, and she offers personal details of her family and hobbies. But she also weaves in comments on government policy and legislative work, indirectly valorizing her own labors. We, as (possible) constituents, might perceive ...
... reader response, and she offers personal details of her family and hobbies. But she also weaves in comments on government policy and legislative work, indirectly valorizing her own labors. We, as (possible) constituents, might perceive ...
الصفحة xix
... readers spent more time consuming blogs than readers of other kinds of blogs (five blogs a day, up to ten hours a week),14 and many hardcore weblog enthusiasts tell me that their own blogday is much, much longer. I was also dazzled by ...
... readers spent more time consuming blogs than readers of other kinds of blogs (five blogs a day, up to ten hours a week),14 and many hardcore weblog enthusiasts tell me that their own blogday is much, much longer. I was also dazzled by ...
الصفحة xxi
... reading a book: We read the words of a text one at a time and turn the pages, linearly, but a picture offers itself to ... readers unfamiliar with blogs with too much insider jargon. The passion of bloggers (and not a few antibloggers in ...
... reading a book: We read the words of a text one at a time and turn the pages, linearly, but a picture offers itself to ... readers unfamiliar with blogs with too much insider jargon. The passion of bloggers (and not a few antibloggers in ...
الصفحة xxii
... readers will abandon you or, worse, ask why you are failing them. The implied points of ellipsis at the end of every essay or post in a blog are one of the crucial features of blogstyle and content that makes it a joint enterprise ...
... readers will abandon you or, worse, ask why you are failing them. The implied points of ellipsis at the end of every essay or post in a blog are one of the crucial features of blogstyle and content that makes it a joint enterprise ...
الصفحة xxiii
... readers that his favorite line is from Walt Whitman: “I am large. I contain multitudes. I contradict myself.” He adds, “I believe that's true of all of us.” A correct summation of both human beings and blogs. Blogwars, thus, is my first ...
... readers that his favorite line is from Walt Whitman: “I am large. I contain multitudes. I contradict myself.” He adds, “I believe that's true of all of us.” A correct summation of both human beings and blogs. Blogwars, thus, is my first ...
المحتوى
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2 From Cybercommunity to Blogland | 49 |
3 The Ascent of Blogs | 61 |
External Political Roles of Bloggers | 109 |
Internal Political Roles of Bloggers | 149 |
Continue the Conversation | 205 |
Notes | 213 |
Index | 237 |
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