Community in the Blogosphere: The Social Construction of Textual Community

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorTrepagnier, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorBarnett, Kristina
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-26T13:30:15Z
dc.date.available2019-11-26T13:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.description.abstractSome worry that people’s connection to each other is declining in contemporary society. I join the chorus of theorists who object to this notion and argue that people’s connections are changing instead of disappearing. In this thesis, I qualitatively investigate one new mode of human connection: blogging. Based on 34 online interviews, I describe the experience of blogging from the perspective of bloggers. I find that although the blogosphere may appear to be just another new type of broadcast medium through which people seek fleeting moments of micro-celebrity, blogs are interactive, and bloggers are community builders. Many are more focused on forming and maintaining rich online relationships than gaining fame. I show how bloggers experience many of the same things that people in offline communities experience. Then again, I also show that community in the blogosphere is deeply affected by the differences between face-to-face interaction and asynchronous, text-based Internet interactions.
dc.description.departmentSociology
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent93 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationBarnett, K. (2008). Community in the blogosphere: The social construction of textual community (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/8932
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectblogs
dc.subjectcomputer network resources
dc.subjectcommunities
dc.subjectsocial interaction
dc.titleCommunity in the Blogosphere: The Social Construction of Textual Community
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentSociology
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University-San Marcos
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Barnett_Kristina_2008.pdf
Size:
2.22 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Graduate Theses and Dissertations