Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive

by Jodi Dean

Book Overview

Blog Theory develops a critical theory of contemporary media. Advancing her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores how new media practices like blogging, friending, and texting capture their users in networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to newly emerging social network platforms and applications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074564970X
• ISBN13: 9780745649702
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"