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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