This book is part of an increasing effort in media studies to address the parochialism of contemporary scholarship by considering media practices and products developed throughout the world. The aim of International Blogging is to broaden consideration of blogging, a now major worldwide new-media practice, by emphasizing the significance of context. Contributions by scholars from nine countries that testify to the complex set of factors that shape national and language-based blogospheres were included. The book’s case studies focus on blogs that originate outside the United States since a large body of work on American blogging already exists.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: International Blogging-Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics
• From the Margins to the Center: New Media and the Case of Bondy Blog in France
• Theorizing the Muslim Blogosphere: Blogs, Rationality, Publicness and Individuality
• Bridges or Breaches? Thoughts on how people use blogs in China
• Blogging in Russia is not Russian Blogging
• Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere
• Blogs as public property media: Defining the roles and assessing the influence of political blogging in Israel
• Offline politics in the Arab blogosphere: Trends and Prospect
• Beppegrillo.it, one year in the life of an Italian blog
• Textual and Symbolic Resistance, Re-mediating Politics Through the Blogosphere in Singapore