{"product_id":"empowering-latinos-weblogs-as-tools-of-democracy-in-the-united-states-von-unknown","title":"Empowering Latinos. Weblogs as Tools of Democracy in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Duke University, language: English, abstract: Just a little over ten years ago, the first website became accessible to the public and even though\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe World Wide Web of today is still in its teens, it has become a phenomenon of virtually global\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpact. By the mid 1990s, people started to discover the joys of online communication via socalled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweblogs or blogs, but blogs really evolved at the turn of the millennium, when the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einternational blogosphere virtually exploded. Anyone could create one, anyone could participate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein one, and everyone had at least heard of one. Blogs revolutionized online communication by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreating worldwide communities of technology nerds, ambitious writers, and simply those who\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efound an outlet for their exhibitionist tendencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades earlier, in 1981, renowned German philosopher and sociological theorist Jürgen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHabermas published his seminal work Theory of Communicative Action, in which he formulates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea theoretical framework for societal progress achieved through communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the United States of today, progress and the means of communication are inherently White, in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efact knowledge and societal power are White. This research is designed to look at the question of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edemocratic empowerment among the Latino minority, this is, whether weblogs provide the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLatino immigrant community with means to connect, exchange information, and thus gain social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand political influence by the power of knowledge. Is it possible for Latinos in the U.S. to use the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emedium of weblogs according to Habermas¿ theory and change the distribution of knowledge and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epower in American society?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHabermas¿ approach will be described as the theoretical framework for this research paper. It will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen be determined how the Latino community in the U.S. could or could not use the weblog as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etool of empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640664269\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640664269","offer_id":39441790795869,"sku":"9783640664269","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ea5df2f8-1cb6-4033-aa2d-23a16d73dfda.jpg?v=1777696344","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/empowering-latinos-weblogs-as-tools-of-democracy-in-the-united-states-von-unknown","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}