• Further reading

• Alavi, Nasrin. We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs, Soft Skull Press, New York, 2005.ISBN 1-933368-05-5.

• Bruns, Axel, and Joanne Jacobs, eds. Uses of Blogs, Peter Lang, New York, 2006.ISBN 0-8204-8124-6.

• Blood, Rebecca. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective". "Rebecca's Pocket".

• Kline, David; Burstein, Dan. Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture, Squibnocket Partners, L.L.C., 2005.ISBN 1-59315-141-1.

• Michael Gorman."Revenge of the Blog People!".Library Journal.

• Ringmar, Erik. A Blogger's Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in the Age of the Internet(London: Anthem Press, 2007).

• Rosenberg, Scott,Say Everything: how blogging Began, what it's becoming, and why it matters, New York : Crown Publishers, 2009.ISBN 978-0-307-45136-1

• External links

		Look up blogin Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
			Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Blogging
	Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Blogs

• Computer Law and Security Report Volume 22 Issue 2, Pages 127-136blogs, Lies and the Doocing bySylvia Kierkegaard(2006)

• Legal Guide for bloggersby theElectronic Frontier Foundation

• Law Library Legal Blawgs Web Archivefrom the U.S.Library of Congress

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• Mediatization (media)

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For princely states, seeMediatization.

In communication studies or media studies, mediatizationis a theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place (Lilleker, 2008). In this framework, an important aspect ofmodernizationis the development of media (Krotz 2008), beginning with a change incommunicationmedia and proceeding to subordination of the power of prevailing influential institutions (Hjarvard 2008, 7). As a consequence of this process, institutions and whole societies are shaped by and dependent onmass media(Mazzoleni & Schulz, 1999).

As noted by Von Joachim Preusse and Sarah Zielmann, Kent Asp introduced and lamented on the concept of mediatazation and clarifiy that: "Mediatisation was first applied to media's impact on political communication and other effects on politics. The Swedish media researcher Kent Asp was the first to speak of the mediatisation of political life, by which he meant a process whereby 'a political system to a high degree is influenced by and adjusted to the demands of the mass media in their coverage of politics'" (2010:336).

Asp used the term mediated politics to describe how the media have become a necessary source of information between politicians and those in authority and those they governed. According to Asp's understanding politics are mediated when the mass media are the main or the only source of political information through which it may influence or even shape people’s conceptions of political reality. Asp theoretical assumptions that mass media may influence and mobilize current political ideas through mediatized rituals have been adopted my various communication scholars.

In the tradition of Asp, the Danish media scholar Stig Hjarvard (2008) helped to develop the concept of mediatization and suggested that mediatization is a social process whereby the society is saturated and inundated by the media to the extent that the media cannot longer be thought of separated from other institutions within the society.