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Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz´s anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners´ daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of publicness enables a consideration of publics not as static ´spheres´ that actors merely enter, but as produced and constituted by social practices. The vibrant media landscape of Beirut serves as a selection of samples for an ethnographic exploration of blogging.

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"Jurkiewicz´s book, which delves into the dynamics and context of media practices, shows how indeed addressing the online-offline continuum could be beneficial." Sarah El-Richani, Global Media Journal, 12 (2018)

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Sarah Jurkiewicz (PhD) is a post-doc researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Her research interests lie in media as well as urban anthropology, with a particular focus on translocal entanglements and migration.

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