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<p>Blogging has become an integral part of girls’ media culture in Norway. This article investigates how teenage girls in the mainstream blogging community perform selves in their blogs over time. While studies of girls’ self-presentations online abound, most draw solely on analyses of online artefacts and lack a temporal perspective. To address these gaps, this investigation has employed a longitudinal design combining in-depth interviews with ethnographic content analyses of blogs, and has analysed girls’ online-based performances of self as integral to their offline experiences framed by the wider cultural context and gendered discourses. This approach is fruitful because it acknowledges girls’ changing experiences across time and contexts, thus making possible a contribution to the theorization of identity as performed across the online and the offline settings and interactions in an ongoing process.</p>
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Blogging has become an integral part of girls’ media culture in Norway. This article investigates how teenage girls in the mainstream blogging community perform selves in their blogs over time. While studies of girls’ self-presentations online abound, most draw solely on analyses of online artefacts and lack a temporal perspective. To address these gaps, this investigation has employed a longitudinal design combining in-depth interviews with ethnographic content analyses of blogs, and has analysed girls’ online-based performances of self as integral to their offline experiences framed by the wider cultural context and gendered discourses. This approach is fruitful because it acknowledges girls’ changing experiences across time and contexts, thus making possible a contribution to the theorization of identity as performed across the online and the offline settings and interactions in an ongoing process.

Performing the Self in the Mainstream: Norwegian girls in blogging

Research Centre for Child and Youth Competence Development

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Nordicom Review

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Blogging has become an integral part of girls’ media culture in Norway. This article investigates how teenage girls in the mainstream blogging community...

Performing the Self in the Mainstream: Norwegian girls in blogging

Published Online: Dec 08, 2017

Page range: 65 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2016-0391

Keywords
girl culture, identity, online/offline

© 2017 Karolina Dmitrow-Devold, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Performing the Self in the Mainstream: Norwegian girls in blogging

Published Online: Dec 08, 2017

Page range: 65 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2016-0391

Keywordsgirl culture, identity, online/offline

© 2017 Karolina Dmitrow-Devold, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
girl culture, identity, online/offline