Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture

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As timely as the latest tweet, this book tracks the digital revolution as a paradigm shift that is transforming popular culture in as yet unforeseen ways. Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture explores the ongoing digital revolution and examines the way it is changingand will changethe way people live and communicate. Starting from the proposition that the Internet is now the center of popular culture, the book offers descriptions of blogs and Twitter and the online behavior they foster. It looks at the demographics of users and the impact of the Internet on knowledge, thinking, writing, politics, and journalism. A primary focus is on the way blogs and tweets are opening up communication to the people, free from gatekeepers and sanctioned rhetoric. The other side of the coin is the online hijacking of the news and its potential for spreading misinformation and fomenting polarization, topics that are analyzed even as the situation continues to evolve. Finally, the book gathers predictions from cultural critics about the future of digital popular culture and makes a few predictions of its own.

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Those looking for a well-digested overview will find helpful information. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *
[This] book answers many questions related to the functions and uses of new social media, particulary in the United States. . . . Readers are provided with a series fo figures, data, and references taken from websites; and are invited to discover the transformations they are experiencing, by living in a digital world. * L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria *

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Mary Cross is emerita professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, where she was chairman of the English Department.