Critical Perspectives of Blogospheres

While the blogosphere, located in cyberspace, potentially enables universal access and endorses social equality, an emphasis of a geographical approach to the blogosphere however informs critical perspectives of such assumedly-homogeneous and potentially exclusionary spaces.



Shirky (2003) highlights Marxist developments in the blogosphere by tracing a phenomenon wherein bloggers have within themselves established internal hierarchies and elite communities.

Post-structural considerations of the blogosphere have also been explored by scholars such as Pole (2005), who acknowledged the variable and contingent ways in which social categories such as race are reflected within the blogosphere.

Feminist thoughts on blogosphere: gendered digital landscape where females go through the experience differently from men (Brunner 1991, from Light, 1995).