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dc.contributor.advisorNagel, Joane
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Emily J.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-09T01:38:35Z
dc.date.available2011-10-09T01:38:35Z
dc.date.issued2011-08-31
dc.date.submitted2011
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11576
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/8146
dc.description.abstractThis 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.extent44 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectBlogging
dc.subjectBourdieu
dc.subjectCulture
dc.subjectFashion
dc.subjectStyle
dc.subjectSwidler
dc.titleWhat She Wore: The Dialectics of Personal Style Blogging
dc.typeThesis
dc.contributor.cmtememberDonovan, Brian
dc.contributor.cmtememberGolash-Boza, Tanya
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineSociology
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.A.
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid7643293
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