Upon reading this article about the Youtube responses to the short film Fitna, I found it very interesting to see this called a new way of performing citizenship. This article also made me wonder whether the same ideas could be applied to a more classic type of blog where the author writes about his or her religious or political identity, despite a physical location.
van Zoonen, Vis, and Miheji write, "We conclude that the particular articulations of religious and political identities, with different modes of audience address assume a connectedness between dispersed people in which new forms of (unlocated) citizenship emerge." While the authors are talking about a Youtube community where people post videos about their personal stance on the Fitna film, I think this quote could also be applied to blogs. Not only blogs, but also the many other ways in which you can express yourself on the internet.
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