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In a digital media environment, the arguments disseminated by non-mainstream, web-based political groups such as bloggers are playing an active role in shaping public opinion-and challenging mainstream news coverage of particular issues or events. This paper analyzes an instance in which bloggers influenced the deliberative process surrounding the controversial Arizona 9/11 Memorial. Findings indicate that bloggers are moving from the political margins to take an active role in countering mainstream media reports, as well as creating and disseminating their own arguments to constituencies. As news organizations are challenged, their reactions will influence how scholars understand the nature of argumentation. Key Words' blogs, 9/11 Memorial, deliberation, dissent, mainstream media, Increasingly, the use of digital media technologies by publics to generate support, circulate dissent, and/or disseminate their message has shaped the political process. In the 2004 election, citizen-consumers used their [...]

AT THE END OF Pride and Prejudice, readers learn that Darcy and Elizabeth 'were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, [...]

JANE AUSTEN'S FIRST BIOGRAPHER, her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh (known as Edward), shared with her the history of a Steventon parsonage childhood: Jane's father, George, and Edward's father, her eldest [...]

The article discusses how author James Edward Austen-Leigh valued the works of novelist Jane Austen. Austen-Leigh was Austen's nephew and first biographer. Austen-Leigh based his "Memoir of Jane Austen" on personal recollections, Jane's correspondence and family lore. Austen-Leigh valued his aunt's last three novels and the poignant significance of the novel "Emma" in Austen-Leigh's courtship of Emma Smith verifies this commendation. Excerpts from Smith's own diary showed that Emma was the book of choice in September 1828, when Austen-Leigh visited their estate Tring Park.The article notes that Smith may have identified herself with Emma Woodhouse, the leading character of the novel "Emma" because of age, family situation, and a single friend in want of a husband.

The article explores the similarities between the weddings of characters Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" and that of its author Jane Austen's neighbor Eliza Chute, her niece Emma Smith and Lord Spencer Compton. In the novel, people immediately left Longbourn where the wedding was held, citing the departure of Chute from London, England based on her diary. It says that both real and fictional weddings involved more time in introducing the new relatives to near relations rather in honeymoons.