Review: Four books concerning Web2.0 media
Cooper, S. D. 2006: Watching the watchdog: Bloggers as the fifth estate. Spokane: Marquette Books.
Levinson, P. 2009: New new media. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
O’Neil, M. 2009: Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and authority in online tribes. London & New York: Pluto Press.
Rettburg, J. W. 2008: Blogging. Cambridge & Malden: Polity Press.
I’ve recently read these four books dealing with different aspects of the web 2.0 world, the common thread through all of them being that they each either touch on or concentrate on the place of blogging in the current netspace. It’s difficult to compare them in terms of content and reliability, because they each have something to offer in terms of content, however my own point of view and personal areas of interest render at least two of them worthy of steering the gentle reader well clear of.
It is these two which I will deal with first.
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