RISE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE
by Barlow, Aaron
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, Aaron 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. Titlepeek
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