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Blogging : How Our Private Thoughts Went Public / Kristin Roeschenthaler Wolfe

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in New MediaPublication details: Lanham, MD : LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2016Description: 110pp., ; 229 x 152mmISBN:
  • 9780739198049
  • 0739198041
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2314 ROE
Summary: Public versus private is an ongoing concern in communication. This book examines this phenomenon through self-representational writing and the philosophical lens of Hannah Arendt\'s public versus private theory, the Boundary Management theory, and the Parasocial Framework theory to examine the first social networking platform: personal blogs
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Standard Loan Clonmel Library Main Collection 302.2314 ROE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100621938

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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.

Chapter 1: Historical Journey from Diaries and Journals to Personal Blogs 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

Public versus private is an ongoing concern in communication. This book examines this phenomenon through self-representational writing and the philosophical lens of Hannah Arendt\'s public versus private theory, the Boundary Management theory, and the Parasocial Framework theory to examine the first social networking platform: personal blogs

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Kristin Roeschenthaler Wolfe is instructor of public speaking and rhetoric and composition at Pennsylvania State University.

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