For an analysis ofpolitical blogs, in particular, anti-capitalist blogs which draw upon the expertise of a subculture of politically-minded computer ‘hacktivists’, take a look at:
"New media and internet activism: from the ‘Battle of Seattle’ to blogging", new media & society, Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner, Feb 2004; 6: 87 - 95.
"In opposition to the capitalist strategy of globalization-from-above, subcultures of cyberactivists have been attempting to carry out globalization from- below, developing networks of solidarity and propagating oppositional ideas and movements throughout the planet. Against the capitalist international of transnational corporate-led globalization, a ‘Fifth
International’ of computer-mediated ctivism is emerging ......"
" bloggers have demonstrated themselves as technoactivists favoring not only democratic self-expression and networking, but also global media critique and journalistic sociopolitical
intervention....."
"many group blogs exist, such as American Samizdat, Metafilter and BoingBoing, in which teams of contributors post and comment upon news stories, events, and issues of the day. One of the most important is the everexpanding series of international Indymedia sites, erected by activists for the public domain to inform one another both locally and globally...."
"Post-11 September, with the wars upon Afghanistan and Iraq, the phenomenon of ‘Warblogging’ arose to become an important and noted genre in its own right....One blogger, the now famous Iraqi Salam Pax , gave outsiders a dose of the larger unexpurgated reality as the bombs exploded overhead in Baghdad."
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