Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Note on transliteration IX
5. Note on illustrations and copyrights XI
6. Foreword XIII
7. Introduction 1
8. POSITIONING MY STUDY 4
9. RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: BLOGS AS MEDIA PRACTICE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE 11
10. METHODS AND ETHICS OFF- AND ONLINE 21
11. I. The Field
12. The Field – Introduction 33
13. 1. Lebanese blogging in context, history and comparison 39
14. 2. The local field of blogging 79
15. II. Actors and Practices
16. Actors and Practices – Introduction 117
17. 3. Seven ways to be a blogger: bloggers in context 121
18. 4. When “thoughts burst into writing”:¹ practices and modes of blog production 155
19. 5. Blogging as practice 191
20. III. Publicness
21. Publicness – Introduction 217
22. 7. The ethos of blogging 249
23. 8. The dynamics of publicness 273
24. Conclusion: Blogging as field, practice and mode of publicness 319
25. Appendix 329