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Poetik Des Autobiografischen Blogs Diese Arbeit konnte durch die großzügige Förderung und das besondere Umfeld entstehen, welches das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1787 Literatur und Literaturvermittlung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen geschaffen hat. Ich danke allen Mitgliedern des Kollegs für die gemeinsame Zeit und Zusammenarbeit. Meinen Doktormüttern Prof. Dr. Simone Winko und Prof. Dr. Claudia Stockinger sowie Dr. Matthias Beilein danke ich von Herzen für ihre Unterstützung und Betreuung, die besser nicht hätten sein können. POETIK DES AUTOBIOGRAFISCHEN BLOGS Dissertation zur Erlangung des philosophischen Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen vorgelegt von Elisabeth Maria Michelbach aus Würzburg Göttingen 2019 Inhalt I. Einleitung ................................................................................................................................................. 1 a) Was ist ein Blog? ..................................................................................................................... 1 b) Was ist ein autobiografisches Blog? ............................................................................... 6 c) Warum eigentlich Blogs? ..................................................................................................11 d) Zum Projekt einer Poetik des autobiografischen Blogs .......................................15 II. Poetologie ............................................................................................................................................. 19 1. Das Blog als digitales Medium ........................................................................................19 1.1 Phänomen und Interface: Oberflächenbeschreibung des Blogs .........................21 1.1.1 Zur Medienökologie des Blogs .................................................................................21 1.1.2 Blogsoftware ....................................................................................................................23 1.1.3 Blogelemente ...................................................................................................................26 1.2 Publikation und Interaktion: Praxis des Blogs ..........................................................30 1.2.1 Ein Beispiel für die Praxis des Blogs ......................................................................31 1.2.2 Die soziale Wende des Internets .............................................................................35 1.2.3 Das Blog als soziales Medium ...................................................................................36 1.2.4 Interaktion und Interaktivität ..................................................................................40 1.3 Medialität und Performanz: Effekte des Mediums Blog ........................................43 1.3.1 Performanz/Performativität.....................................................................................44 1.3.2 Rollenwechsel .................................................................................................................47 1.3.3 Prozessualität ..................................................................................................................49 1.3.4 Autopoietische Feedback-Schleife ..........................................................................50 2. Das Blog als autobiografisches Genre ..........................................................................52 Zum Begriff des Genres ......................................................................................................53 2.1 Autobiografizität im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung ....................................................59 2.1.1 Eine Standortbestimmung .........................................................................................59 2.1.2 Paradigmen autobiografischen Schreibens ........................................................64 a) Faktualität ..........................................................................................................................64 b) Narrativität ........................................................................................................................69 c) Autobiografisches Schreiben als literarisches Schreiben ...............................73 2.2 Genremerkmale des autobiografischen Blogs ...........................................................74 2.2.1 Zeitlichkeit: Das Tagebuch .........................................................................................75 a) Zeitlichkeit .........................................................................................................................77 b) Zeitlichkeit als Merkmal des autobiografischen Blogs ....................................79 2.2.2 Dialogizität: Brief, Briefwechsel und philologischer Kommentar .............82 a) Dialogizität .........................................................................................................................86 b) Dialogizität als Genremerkmal des autobiografischen Blogs .......................89 2.2.3 Subjektivität/Objektivität: Reportage und meinungsäußernde journalistische Darstellungsformen..................................................................................91 a) Augenzeug*innenschaft ...............................................................................................92 b) Biografisch fundiertes Expert*innentum..............................................................96 c) Subjektivität/Objektivität als Genremerkmal des autobiografischen Blogs ......................................................................................................................................................99 III. Zwischenteil: Von der Poetologie zu Schreibweisen des autobiografischen Blogs 105 1. Kommunikationsmodell des autobiografischen Blogs ...................................... 106 1.1 Kommunikationsmodell autobiografischer Texte ................................................ 107 1.2 Die drei Stufen des Kommunikationsmodells des autobiografischen Blogs ............................................................................................................................................................ 112 2. Ausprägungen des autobiografischen Blogs .......................................................... 118 2.1 Prototypen ............................................................................................................................. 120 a) Melancholie Modeste ...................................................................................................... 120 b) Reisenotizen aus der Realität ...................................................................................... 125 2.2 Grenzfälle ............................................................................................................................... 129 a) Aleatorik ............................................................................................................................... 129 b) Arbeit und Struktur ......................................................................................................... 135 IV. Schreibweisen ................................................................................................................................ 141 Melancholie Modeste ........................................................................................................ 141 . „… das tut der Tante Hedi doch weh! Privatheit im autobiografischen Blog 1.1 Zum Begriff der Privatheit .............................................................................................. 143 1.2 Privatheit im Blog Melancholie Modeste .................................................................... 147 a) Figuralisierung .................................................................................................................. 149 b) Narrativierung ................................................................................................................... 154 1.3 Privatheitspraxis im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung ................................................ 157 Journalismus bei Andrea Diener................................................................................. 160 . „Liest sich irgendwie authentischer als im Print … Zum Verhältnis von Blog und 2.1 Blogs und Journalismus .................................................................................................... 162 2.2 Andrea Dieners Blog- und Zeitungstexte im Vergleich ....................................... 168 2.3 Authentizitätseffekte im Blog Reisenotizen aus der Realität ............................. 171 a) Live-Blogging ...................................................................................................................... 171 b) Meta-Blogging .................................................................................................................... 175 c) Surplus-Blogging ............................................................................................................... 177 2.4 Aspekte einer journalistischen Publikationspraxis der Gegenwart .............. 181 Aleatorik .................................................................................................................................................. 184 . „Eine Spielwiese mit Bruchstelle Faktualität und Fiktionalität im Blog 3.1 Der Fall Aléa Torik .............................................................................................................
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