Blogs and the attention market for public intellectuals

Jeremy Freese

doi:10.1007/s12115-008-9159-4

Blogs and the attention market for public intellectuals

Jeremy Freese^*

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Abstract

Public intellectuals are successful suppliers of commentary in the attention market for serious thought. Blogs are a relatively new technology that substantially alters this market. More people can now nurse aspirations to be public intellectuals, but blogs also make plain the difficulties of actually reaching a public in ways that books do not. Blogs also vitiate other romantic ideas about the public intellectual as transcendent figure. Even so, blogs may well provide the services for which transcendent public intellectuals are often lauded better than these figures ever did.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	45-48
Number of pages	4
Journal	Society
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-008-9159-4
State	Published - Jan 1 2009

Keywords

Attention markets
Blogs
Internet
Public intellectuals
Public sphere

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Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences(all)

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