We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs
We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology)
How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology)
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
The Internet Imaginaire
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
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Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of subjectivity, this paper conceptualizes early blogging and online diary writing as “technologies of the self,” that is, procedures through which practitioners enacted certain identities as Internet users. This study combines archival research, close analysis of websites, and interviews with their creators. It analyzes how the most defining practices associated with the emergence of these websites in the second half of the 1990s enabled the performance of specific modes of identification for their users, expressed by concepts such as the “online diarist” and the “blogger.” The study broadens our understanding of technologies of the self by considering the role of websites as artifacts in processes of self-formation on the Internet. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.