Are bloggers the new public intellectuals? Blogging creates an environment where “ordinary people can use argument to increase their knowledge on a topic (3). Tim Dunlop contends that “It is the act of articulating and defending our views that lifts them out of the category of ‘opinions’, gives them shape and definition and makes it possible for others to recognize them as a description of their own experience as well. In short, we come to know our own minds by explaining ourselves to others” (3). Blogging is one of the forums available to the ordinary citizen that provides a means for active argument or discussion of any timely event.
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