The Portuguese Blogosphere: From the Column of Infamy to the End of an Era
No. 52 FEBRUARY 2021
Bloggers are still out there. It’s easy to find key names in the blogosphere of the 2000s in the current opinion spaces in newspapers, but also in politics, culture and entertainment. When writing on the internet didn’t pay, there were no freebies in restaurants or any wrinkle creams, what led thousands of Portuguese to create and maintain a blog? How is the success of the blogosphere explained and what made it fade away?
This is a portrait of the blogosphere in Portugal, from the first success story (The Column of Infamy) and the peak in 2008 to the migration of most bloggers to Facebook and Twitter. Relaxed and deliberately informal, it tells of a phenomenon marked from the outset by a considerable helping of sound and fury.
Bloggers are still out there. It’s easy to find key names in the blogosphere of the 2000s in the current opinion spaces in newspapers, but also in politics, culture and entertainment. When writing on the internet didn’t pay, there were no freebies in restaurants or any wrinkle creams, what led thousands of Portuguese to create and maintain a blog? How is the success of the blogosphere explained and what made it fade away?
This is a portrait of the blogosphere in Portugal, from the first success story (The Column of Infamy) and the peak in 2008 to the migration of most bloggers to Facebook and Twitter. Relaxed and deliberately informal, it tells of a phenomenon marked from the outset by a considerable helping of sound and fury.
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Dimensions
8 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9004-92-4
Book available only in Portuguese
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