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Abstract

Henry Jenkins: Blog This! In: Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers. Exploring Participatory Culture, NYU Press, 2006.
Blog This! first appeared in Technology Review in February 2002.

  1. About Henry Jenkins' Blog
    • Monthly column Digital Renaissance since 2001
    • first for print and then the online edition fo Technology Review
    • responding to a range of developments between technology and culture
    • rehearse arguments that will later be translated into academic writing
    • Gap between traditional journalism and blogging
    • today bloggers might be important rassroots intermediaries
    • at the time of "Blog This!" many found the assertions overstated
    • bloggers started being an emerging force in American media culture
  2. Bloggers
    • bloggers are turning online into an extreme sport
    • journalists surf the Web, bloggers snowboard it
    • bloggers are the minutemen of the digital revolution
  3. Blog
    • blog is short for Web log
    • logs are compendia of curous information and intersting links
    • improvements in Web design made it easier to create their Web logs
    • blogs are more dynamic than home pages, more permanent than posts
    • more personal than traditional journalism, more public than diaries
  4. Democracy
    • What happens to democracy in current media environment, where power is concentrated in the hands of a few publishers and networks?
    • bloggin community as force that will shape the information environment
    • grassroots intermediaries may redifine public perception of new media