Document Type
Article
Abstract
Unique circumstances existing in the Israeli blogsphere have attracted many adolescent girls. In recent years, a growing number of weblogs belonging to adolescent girls are challenging blogging norms, creating a tension between written narratives and performance narratives that combine design and play practices. Existing weblog research has explored the connections between gender, linguistic features, and genre but has not examined visual blog genres, nor questioned the role of features inherent in weblog software in the formation of gendered blog genres and blogging norms. Based on a work-in-progress of a larger scope, I shall argue that design supportive features distinctive to Israeli weblog software are directly responsible for the emergence of new blog genres and blogging norms, as well as for attracting many adolescent girls to blogging.
Repository Citation
Vaisman, Carmel L.. "Design and Play: Weblog Genres of Adolescent Girls in Israel." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 6, no. 4, 2006, pp. 1–1. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol6/iss4/10
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