- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc.,U.S. (30 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0275989968
- ISBN-13: 978-0275989965
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.6 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,858,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1985, The WELL, a dial-up discussion board, began with the phrase: "You own your own words." Though almost everything else about online discussion has changed in the two decades since, those words still describe its central premise, and this basic idea underlies both the power and the popularity of blogging today. Appropriately enough, it also describes American journalism as it existed a century and a half before The WELL was organized, before the concept of popular involvement in the press was nearly swept away on the rising tide of commercial and professional journalism. In this book, which is the first to provide readers with a cultural/historical account of the blog, as well as the first to analyze the different aspects of this growing phenomenon in terms of its past, Barlow provides lay readers with a thorough history and analysis of a truly democratic technology that is becoming more important to our lives every day.
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A surprising probe of cultural forms of expression highly recommended
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In 1985 The Well, a dial-up discussion board, instigated what was to become the first 'blog': since then much has changed in cyberspace, but this survey of the history and changes of The Well is also a survey of the progress and evolution of American journalism and the rise of the popular written word, and offers college-level students of either journalism or social issues an important cultural and historical survey of the rise of the blog. The discussion even goes back to times of the American Revolution in a surprising probe of cultural forms of expression highly recommended for any serious college-level holding strong in social issues.
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