dc.contributor.advisor | Nagel, Joane | |
dc.contributor.author | Kennedy, Emily J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-09T01:38:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-09T01:38:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-08-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11576 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8146 | |
dc.description.abstract | This research examines personal style blogging to understand the strategies women interested in personal style employ online to participate in fashion culture. In 2009 and 2010 I interviewed thirty-five personal style bloggers during two separate one-month periods about their experiences as bloggers, fashion community-members, and consumers. Bourdieu's theories of taste and social spaces, as well as Swidler's theory of strategic interaction were used to analyze the data. I found that personal style bloggers engage three strategies to navigate the social field of fashion online: opposition, conditional involvement, and buy-in. Personal style bloggers self-consciously position themselves vis-a-vis the fashion industry to respond to the pressures of consumerism and self-commodification, and illustrate that the Internet facilitates production as well as consumption of women's fashion. | |
dc.format.extent | 44 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Sociology | |
dc.subject | Blogging | |
dc.subject | Bourdieu | |
dc.subject | Culture | |
dc.subject | Fashion | |
dc.subject | Style | |
dc.subject | Swidler | |
dc.title | What She Wore: The Dialectics of Personal Style Blogging | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Donovan, Brian | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Golash-Boza, Tanya | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Sociology | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 7643293 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |