Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers

Over the last few years, with the introduction of easy-to-use and integrated services such as Windows Live Spaces, blogging has moved into the mainstream in Malaysia, with women making up 64% of bloggers. Blogging has become popular because it provides an outlet for netizens who find blogosphere a l...

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Main Author: Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2007
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1167/
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spelling ukm-11672016-12-14T06:29:00Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1167/ Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Over the last few years, with the introduction of easy-to-use and integrated services such as Windows Live Spaces, blogging has moved into the mainstream in Malaysia, with women making up 64% of bloggers. Blogging has become popular because it provides an outlet for netizens who find blogosphere a liberating place, so unlike Malaysian traditional print which is censored and licensed. This article is an analysis of two blogs written by Malaysian women that show them negotiating in contradictory ways the line between the private and public dimensions of their lives. The idea that the “personal is political” and the importance of experience still retain an important place in feminist contemporary thought. I argue that many seemingly “trivial and personal” issues have produced a politics formed from the bloggers‟ personal experiences and reflections. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1167/1/7_RUZY.pdf Ruzy Suliza Hashim, (2007) Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 13 . pp. 127-142. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description Over the last few years, with the introduction of easy-to-use and integrated services such as Windows Live Spaces, blogging has moved into the mainstream in Malaysia, with women making up 64% of bloggers. Blogging has become popular because it provides an outlet for netizens who find blogosphere a liberating place, so unlike Malaysian traditional print which is censored and licensed. This article is an analysis of two blogs written by Malaysian women that show them negotiating in contradictory ways the line between the private and public dimensions of their lives. The idea that the “personal is political” and the importance of experience still retain an important place in feminist contemporary thought. I argue that many seemingly “trivial and personal” issues have produced a politics formed from the bloggers‟ personal experiences and reflections.
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title Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers
title_short Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers
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title_fullStr Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers
title_full_unstemmed Blogs of their own: a story of two Malaysian Women Bloggers
title_sort blogs of their own: a story of two malaysian women bloggers
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publishDate 2007
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1167/
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