The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects Export

@article{3301, abstract = {Informed by Carey's cultural approach to communication, this article revisits the debate about the historical impact of new communication technologies. Several studies have pointed to technology "affordances" as offering a useful middle ground between determinist and social constructivist perspectives. This article explores how the concept of affordance might be tweaked to emphasize what an emerging technology suggests in time to the cultures using and developing it. The second half of the article illustrates the discussion with a close examination of the affordances of blogging technology and especially of a novel communications genre: news-related blogs.}, author = {Graves, Lucas}, citeulike-article-id = {2966333}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://jci.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/4/331}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859907305446}, comment = {October 1, 2007 ---=note-separator=--- The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects}, doi = {10.1177/0196859907305446}, journal = {Journal of Communication Inquiry}, keywords = {file-import-08-07-05, genre-social, genre-tech, journalism, political, social-constructivism, weblog, weblogs}, number = {4}, pages = {331-346+}, pdf = {internal-pdf://graves blog affordances-0050824960/graves blog affordances.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-07-05 15:28:17}, priority = {0}, title = {The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859907305446}, volume = {31}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - 3301 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2966333 N2 - Informed by Carey's cultural approach to communication, this article revisits the debate about the historical impact of new communication technologies. Several studies have pointed to technology "affordances" as offering a useful middle ground between determinist and social constructivist perspectives. This article explores how the concept of affordance might be tweaked to emphasize what an emerging technology suggests in time to the cultures using and developing it. The second half of the article illustrates the discussion with a close examination of the affordances of blogging technology and especially of a novel communications genre: news-related blogs. IS - 4 JF - Journal of Communication Inquiry TI - The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects VL - 31 SP - 331-346 KW - file-import-08-07-05 KW - genre-social KW - genre-tech KW - journalism KW - political KW - social-constructivism KW - weblog KW - weblogs N1 - October 1, 2007 N1 - The Affordances of Blogging: A Case Study in Culture and Technological Effects AU - Graves, Lucas PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859907305446 ER -