Posting With Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender

Gregg, Melissa C. (2006). Posting With Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender. In Bruns, Axel and Jacobs, Joanne (Ed.), Uses of Blogs (pp. 151-160) Brisbane: Peter Lang.

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Author Gregg, Melissa C.
Title of chapter Posting With Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender
Title of book Uses of Blogs
Place of Publication Brisbane
Publisher Peter Lang
Publication year 2006
Editor Bruns, Axel
Jacobs, Joanne
ISBN 0-8204-8124-6
Chapter number 14
Start page 151
End page 160
Total pages 10
Total chapters 22
Collection year 2006
Subjects 420303 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
420304 Screen and Media Culture
780107 Studies in human society
B1
Abstract/Summary This chapter uses a feminist cultural studies perspective to analyse debates about the relevance of gender in weblog use. It argues that generalisations about the so-called 'trivial' content of women's blogs are of little use to the extent that they leave the apparently opposite term - 'political' - undefined. The chapter aims to situate discussions about gender and political participation within a wider historical and intellectual framework. In doing so, it suggests that both gender and blogging reflect broader social anxieties about an expanding public sphere.
Keyword blogging
weblogs
gender
politics
Q-Index Code B1
 
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