Blogging : How Our Private Thoughts Went Public.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (107 pages)
- Studies in New Media Series .
- Studies in New Media Series .
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Historical Journey from Diaries and Journals to Personal Blogs -- 2 Hannah Arendt's Understanding of Public, Private, and Social -- 3 Interpersonal Communication and the Role of Communication Technology -- 4 Personal Blogs: History, Usage, Future-Are We Just Looking for Our 15 Minutes of Fame? -- 5 Personal Blogs that Do More -- 6 Using Arendt to Navigate the Future of Communication Technology -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
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.