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Being Written While Writing : = Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Being Written While Writing :/
Reminder of title:	Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere.
Author:	Shiva, Amirpouyan.
Description:	1 online resource (328 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438168084

Being Written While Writing : = Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere.
Shiva, Amirpouyan.

Being Written While Writing :Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere. - 1 online resource (328 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines how people change in the process of creating through the prism of a particular creative site of material production---the Persian blogosphere. In Iran, blogging is a popular means for producing self-centering narratives---i.e., written accounts centering around one's lived experience---, making Persian one of the top 10 blogging languages. As it deploys ethnographic research to explore blogging, a medium enabled by the coming together of technology, language, and people, this project questions the received ideas of what media do. The findings of this research challenge conventional ideas of media that center on symbolic representation instead of material creation.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438168084Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179959
Cultural anthropology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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520 $a As it uncovers the processes through which people gain new understandings of the world, this ethnography examines not only the uniquely Iranian qualities or uses of the Internet, but also how singularities in this specific field of cultural forces led to the birth of these qualities and functions. This research, moreover, explores how writing blogs helps Iranian become autonomous subjects, which in turn changes the dynamics of power at a micro level.
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