Blogging America: Political Discourse in a Digital Nation

By Barbara O'Brien

This book celebrates political blogging in America. It approaches blogging as a multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses journalism and media, political discourse and commentary, rhetoric and debate.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590280407
• ISBN13: 9781590280409
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Franklin Beedle & Assoc
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

no technical obstacles to writing

Whatever your political leanings, O'Brien offers a good education about reading and writing political blogs. Many examples of existing blogs are given. With an emphasis on American blogs. She gives a diversity of blogging viewpoints. For readers inclined to contribute to existing blogs, or starting their own, the take home message is that it is very simple. By now, the technical details have been mostly finessed away. You don't need much in the way of a computing background at all. There are only two hard things. Writing interesting and original prose. The book does not, and cannot really help you with this. The other obstacle is getting read by others. Here, the book has some tips. But mostly you should experiment with different ways of attracting notice.