| Critics of blogging have focused on the blog as a site of autobiographical discourse. Although this approach is useful, it misses a deeper discussion of the influence of the community around a given blog, the blogger, and the software itself in directing the growth of the blogger's identity. In exploring these influences, this thesis ties together an in-depth look at the infrastructure within the blog and its influence in directing the type of content a blogger generates with a theoretical approach, using a combination of humanist and posthumanist theory to discuss the effects of encoding/decoding and subject position on a blogger's identity. |
