Description
Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public examines self-representational writing from its historical roots in personal diaries to its current form in personal blogs. Widely available on the Internet, personal blogs are the latest form of an ever more public writing style of self-reflection. Utilizing Hannah Arendt’s philosophy of public, private, and social, this book delves deeper into the question of public versus private and provides an entrance for Arendt’s work into today’s mediated world. Arendt’s understanding of public, private, and social allows us to better understand the need for boundaries and for both public and private spaces in our lives. Interpersonal communication theories, including boundary management theory and parasocial framework theory, help to better understand how people navigate public and private boundaries in communication. These theories provide a philosophical view of our overshared and overmediated world, and, specifically, how it affects our communication styles and practices.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Hannah Arendt’s Understanding of Public, Private, and Social
Chapter 3: Interpersonal Communication and the Role of Communication Technology
Chapter 4: Personal Blogs: History, Usage, Future—Are We Just Looking for Our 15 Minutes of Fame
Chapter 5: Personal Blogs that Do More
Chapter 6: Using Arendt to Navigate the Future of Communication Technology
Product details
| Published | 04 Jun 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 110 |
| ISBN | 9780739186466 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Studies in New Media |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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