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As timely as the latest tweet, this book tracks the digital revolution as a paradigm shift that is transforming popular culture in as yet unforeseen ways.

Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture explores the ongoing digital revolution and examines the way it is changing--and will change--the way people live and communicate. Starting from the proposition that the Internet is now the center of popular culture, the book offers descriptions of blogs and Twitter and the online behavior they foster. It looks at the demographics of users and the impact of the Internet on knowledge, thinking, writing, politics, and journalism.

A primary focus is on the way blogs and tweets are opening up communication to the people, free from gatekeepers and sanctioned rhetoric. The other side of the coin is the online hijacking of the news and its potential for spreading misinformation and fomenting polarization, topics that are analyzed even as the situation continues to evolve. Finally, the book gathers predictions from cultural critics about the future of digital popular culture and makes a few predictions of its own.

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• Timeline of the Internet, Blogs, and Twitter(p. ix)
• 1 Introduction: Blogs, Twitter, and Popular Culture(p. 1)
• 2 Popular Culture in a Digital Age(p. 17)
• 3 Got Blog?(p. 37)
• 4 Twitter World(p. 51)
• 5 Are Blogs and Twitter Hijacking Journalism?(p. 67)
• 6 Language in a Twittering, Blogging World(p. 85)
• 7 Issues in the Age of Oversharing(p. 103)
• 8 Inventing the Digital Self(p. 119)
• 9 Bloggerati, Twitterati, and the Transformation of Practically Everything(p. 135)
• 10 Welcome to the Revolution(p. 147)
• Notes(p. 151)
• Selected Biblipgraphy(p. 177)
• Index(p. 181)

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CHOICE Review

Cross (emer., English, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.) argues that online social networking has effected a paradigm shift in private life and popular culture. In her introduction, she articulates her central question: "As people learn new ways of experiencing and exchanging information, how will they and their way of life be changed?" This question has certainly been asked and answered before, most recently, for example, in Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (CH, Jun'10, 47-5602) and Elias Aboujaoude's Virtually You (CH, Oct'11, 49-1160). Cross's aim is less to offer a politically nuanced manifesto than to provide what she calls (in a chapter titled "Bloggerati, Twitterati, and the Transformation of Practically Everything") an "ethnographic thick description of digital culture"--i.e., a descriptive overview of the way Americans live online. In this she succeeds, summarizing and amalgamating demographic studies of Internet users, academic research on the psychology of social networking, and manifestos about the digital future. Scholars and critics are unlikely to find unexpected insights in Cross's book, but those looking for a well-digested overview will find helpful information. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. L. R. Braunstein Dartmouth College

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Mary Cross is emerita professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, where she was chairman of the English Department.