The chapter investigates the early years of blogs diffusion in Italy (2001-2008) considering them as cultural objects (Griswold 1994; Colombo 2003, 2006). It will investigate the phenomenon applying an original approach aimed at examining how blogs’ technological, cultural, economic, and institutional dimension changed over time. It will show both the continuity between the origins of blogging in the USA and the peculiarities of Italian blogosphere, which are to be observed from their very inception, such as the adoption of blogging like an online diary or the creation of online and offline micro-communities.
Locatelli, E., Blogs as cultural products: A multidimensional approach to their diffusion in Italy (2001-2008), in Brügger, N. (ed.), Web 25. Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web, Peter Lang, New York 2017: 91- 105 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/107828]
Blogs as cultural products: A multidimensional approach to their diffusion in Italy (2001-2008)
Locatelli, Elisabetta
2017
Abstract
The chapter investigates the early years of blogs diffusion in Italy (2001-2008) considering them as cultural objects (Griswold 1994; Colombo 2003, 2006). It will investigate the phenomenon applying an original approach aimed at examining how blogs’ technological, cultural, economic, and institutional dimension changed over time. It will show both the continuity between the origins of blogging in the USA and the peculiarities of Italian blogosphere, which are to be observed from their very inception, such as the adoption of blogging like an online diary or the creation of online and offline micro-communities.
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