How Has Blogging Changed The View Of Real Life Domesticity?

Blogging has become a popular form of internet communication. Women in particular have become the driving force behind some of the most popular blogs currently on the internet. These women have used their blogs to reimage domesticity. Female bloggers have taken what women have done for generations: cooking, cleaning, sewing, crafting and recommending certain products they use and have parlayed that into a business. Women have found a way to remove the negative stigma of being a housewife or stay at home mom and are using their status as such to promote their daily lives. They are also forming an online community of support for one another. These women have also become the “go to” ambassadors for companies and corporations who want to market their products to other women and men on the internet. These sponsors in return help women bloggers to market their lives and make money in the process. How Has Blogging Changed The View of Real Life Domesticity? The word “blog” found its origins in the word weblog. Weblogs began as an online journal, a virtual diary for tech savvy people to chronicle their lives for those who they allowed access. When blogging first came about, it was mostly men

“Female bloggers were sampled from a publicly available web directory listing blogs authored predominantly by women (http://blogerher.org/blogers-blogrolls) by selecting every fifth blog listed” (Stavrositu & Sundar, 2012). In this particular study, women were categorized by the type of blog they maintained, their motivations for blogging, the psychological empowerment aspect as well as their sense of agency and the sense of community. (Stavrositu & Sundar, 2012). The results of the test “provide solid evidence for self-reported psychological empowerment benefits of blogging” (Stavrositu & Sundar,