Produced subjectivities and productive subjects : locating the potential of the self-reflective blog
dc.contributor.author | Zurba, Zorianna. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-02-16T15:45:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-02-16T15:45:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-02-16T15:45:58Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10464/2913 | |
dc.description.abstract | Blogging software has popularly been used as a mode of writing about everyday life to interact with others. This thesis examines the political potentials that are opened up by self-reflective blogging. The self-reflective blog is a synergy of self-reflective practices and computer-mediated communication. A genealogy of the history of computer-mediated communication and various public self-reflective practices is conducted to uncover affect as the utility of various economies of subject production. Efforts made to blog-like the efforts made to interact online in other CMCs-are positioned as a kind of affective labor. Adapting Hardt and Negri's (2005) theorization of the multitude, whereby affective labor-the production of social relationshipsis a kind ofbiopolitical production, affect will be determined as a kind ofbiopolitical power that exists in everyday life. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brock University | en_US |
dc.subject | Blogs--Political aspects. | en_US |
dc.subject | Blogs--Social aspects. | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-perception. | en_US |
dc.title | Produced subjectivities and productive subjects : locating the potential of the self-reflective blog | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.degree.name | M.A. Popular Culture | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Popular Culture Program | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Faculty of Humanities | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-08-07T01:23:40Z |