Kadın Bloggerlar: Yeni Dil, Yeni Kadınlık, Yeni Tartışmalar

In late 1990’s, weblogs emerged as a new medium of literature along with the developing digital communication technologies. The number of blogs started to increase rapidly as from the second half of the 2000’s, while the noteworthy amount of female participants in this medium brought in a new direction to blogs. In Turkey, female bloggers gained visibility particularly as from the year 2006. Today, blogs continue to constitute a significant communication medium for women. Due to its formal characteristics concerning the organization of the text, blog literature has been associated with letters or the type of literature that takes the narration of life as its subject. Arguments that forge a link between the language of blogs and female literariness in consideration of the visibility of female bloggers in the net, claimed that with its fragmental and partial characteristics and its quality of being open to association, creativity, feelings and fiction, blog language re-summons the experience of women literature forgotten during the creation of the literary conventions of the 18th - 19th century modernism. In parallel with the return of the forgotten literary language of the woman, it has been asserted that the language of blogs is a feminized language. The present study, which analyses the pages of 21 female bloggers in Turkey in terms of language, freedom of expression, topics and discursive articulations, aims to extend the theoretical argument that correlates blog language with women’s literature. While the results of the analysis has been in line with the argument concerning the feminization of blog language, they also set forth some contradicting findings, and the argument was further extended towards the questions directed at the new subject of the new digital era.