To what extent can it be argued that blogs encourage active citizens
Here is the key reading that the university provided, hope it can be something related to those reading
Key Reading:
Alexanian, J.A. (2006) ‘Publicity Intimate Online: Iranian Web Logs in Southern California’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 26 (1) 134-145.
Griffiths, M. (2004) ‘E-Citizens: Blogging as Democratic Practice’, Electronic Journal of e- Government, 2, (2004), 155-165. Available at www.ejeg.com/volume-2/volume2-issue3/v2- i3-art2-griffiths.pdf.
Further Reading:
Auty, C. (2005) ‘UK elected representatives and their weblogs: first impressions’. Aslib Proceedings 57 (4) 338-355.
Barlow, A. (2007) The Rise of the Blogosphere Westport, Conn, Praeger (for useful background discussion see chapter 1, and for citizenship journalism and blogs chapter 15).
Chadwick, A., 2006, Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, esp. chapter 5.
Cohen, K.R. (2006) ‘A Welcome for Blogs’. Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture Studies 20(2) 161-173.
Coleman, S. (2005) ‘Blogs and the New Politics of Listening’ Political Quarterly 273-280 Etling, B; Kelly, J; Faris, R and Palfrey, J (2010) ‘Mapping the Arabic blogosphere.’ New Media & Society, December; vol. 12, 8: pp. 1225-1243.
Harcourt, W. (1999) (ed) Women@internet, creating new cultures in cyberspace, London, Zed books.
Herring, S.C.; Scheidt, L.A; Wright, E. and Bonus, S. (2005) ‘Weblogs as a bridging genre’ Information Technology and People, vol. 18(2), 142-171.
Lenhart, A and Fox, S. (2006) ‘Bloggers, A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers’, Pew Internet & American Life Project, i-25. Available at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%20Bloggers%20Report%20July%2019%202006.pdf. Accessed 6 March 2007.
