{"id":63,"date":"2010-03-20T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibliowonk.com\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2014-05-23T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:34:24","slug":"robert-darnton-on-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Robert Darnton on blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-ft='{\"type\":\"msg\"}'>   <span data-ft='{\"type\":\"name\"}'>                <\/span><span>Robert Darnton at the <i>New York Review of Books <\/i>blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/456582401\/blogging-now-and-then\">on  blogging<\/a>: &#8220;[blogs] conform to a formula derived from old-fashioned  tabloid journalism: names make news.&#8221; Darnton compares some blogs to his  area of expertise, underground writing of <i>ancient regime<\/i> France, and  then gives succeeding examples of 18th C libels and such.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 data-ft='{\"type\":\"msg\"}'>   <span>Darnton concludes  (a bit ominously, to m<span><\/span><span>y ear) &#8220;I don\u2019t believe that history teaches  lessons, at least not in a direct, easily applied manner, but it does  raise questions. Are blogs disrupting traditional politics today just as  \u201clibelles\u201d did in eighteenth-century France?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 data-ft='{\"type\":\"msg\"}'>   <span><span>(Why <i>ominously<\/i>? Darnton and other historians of the French Revolution argue that libelous underground literature helped to undermine the authority of individuals, of offices, and of the entire system which they represented. He&#8217;s more nuanced than what I write here, but his work suggests that this underground literature ultimately made it easier to destroy the system and behead Louis XVI.)<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 data-ft='{\"type\":\"msg\"}'>   <span><span>Robert Darnton is Professor of history at Princeton and past winner of the APHA Award. <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Darnton at the New York Review of Books blog on blogging: &#8220;[blogs] conform to a formula derived from old-fashioned tabloid journalism: names make news.&#8221; Darnton compares some blogs to his area of expertise, underground writing of ancient regime France, and then gives succeeding examples of 18th C libels and such.\u00a0 Darnton concludes (a bit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Darnton on blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[336,338,196],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-book-history","tag-blogging","tag-book-history","tag-robert-darnton","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}