@Book{898914752, author="Jurkiewicz, Sarah", title="Blogging in Beirut: an ethnography of a digital media practice", series="Culture and social practice", year="2018", publisher="transcript", address="Bielefeld", keywords="Social media; Weblog; Lebanon; Social aspects; Beirut; Arabic language; Digital media; Internet; Blogs; Ethnology", contents="Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Note on illustrations and copyrights -- Foreword -- Introduction -- POSITIONING MY STUDY -- RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: BLOGS AS MEDIA PRACTICEAND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- METHODS AND ETHICS OFF- AND ONLINE -- I. The Field -- The Field {\^a}€“ Introduction -- 1. Lebanese blogging in context,history and comparison -- 1.1 CONTEXT: MEDIA AND INTERNET IN LEBANON -- 1.2 A SHORT HISTORY OF BLOGGING -- 1.3 LEBANESE BLOGGING IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECT -- 1.4 INTERNAL DIFFERENTIATION ONLINE -- 2. The local field of blogging -- 2.1 SEARCHING FOR THE {\^a}€˜FIELD{\^a}€™,WAITING FOR THE ACTORS -- 2.2 PRACTITIONERS, LOCALITIES AND OFFLINE DYNAMICS -- II. Actors and Practices -- Actors and Practices {\^a}€“ Introduction -- 3. Seven ways to be a blogger: Bloggers in context -- 3.1 HANIBAAEL: AN ALTERNATIVE CONTENT PRODUCER -- 3.2 LILIANE AKA FUNKYOZZI:A DEVELOPER WITH VARIOUS ONLINE ENGAGEMENTS -- 3.3 ASSAAD: FREELANCERBETWEEN ACTIVISM AND JOURNALISM -- 3.4 RAMI: A CONTINUALLY CONNECTED IT PROFESSIONAL -- 3.5 KHODOR AKA JOU3AN: A POLITICAL WRITER -- 3.6 MAYA ZANKOUL: A DESIGNER AND COMIC ARTIST -- 3.7 ADON: A YOUNG ACADEMIC WITH AN {\^a}€œAGENDA{\^a}€ -- 4. When {\^a}€œthoughts burst into writing{\^a}€: practices and modes of blog production -- 4.1 TEMPORALITY AND ORGANISATIONOF BLOG PRODUCTION -- 4.2 MODES OF BLOG PRODUCTION -- 4.3 PRODUSAGE AND MEDIA CONVERGENCE -- 5. Blogging as practice -- 5.1 BLOGGING AS INTEGRATIVEAND RECOMBINANT PRACTICE -- 5.2 THE REWARDS OF BLOGGING -- III. Publicness -- Publicness {\^a}€“ Introduction -- 6. Audiences and locality -- 6.1 PRODUCING LOCALITY -- 6.2 APPROACHING THE AUDIENCE -- 6.3 WAYS OF ADDRESSING:LANGUAGE AND INTENDED AUDIENCES -- 6.4 IMAGINING THE AUDIENCE -- 7. The ethos of blogging -- 7.1 STANDARDS FOR SUCCESSFUL BLOGGING -- 7.2 IMPARTIALITY AND CREDIBILITY NEGOTIATED:BLOGGING ETHOS IN PRACTICE -- 7.3 {\^a}€˜COSMOLOGIES{\^a}€™ OF BLOGGING IN LEBANON -- 8. The dynamics of publicness -- 8.1 PUBLICNESS AND SELF-DISCLOSURE -- 8.2 COUNTER-PUBLICNESS -- Conclusion: Blogging as field, practice andmode of publicness -- Appendix -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF INTERVIEWS -- LIST OF BLOGS AND WEBSITES", note="Sarah Jurkiewicz", isbn="3837641422", language="English" }