BLOGGING: A GATEWAY TO HYPER FREEDOM FOR PAKISTANI FEMALES

Abstract

This study intends to reveal how the weblogs, through their multifunctional roles, offer female bloggers a platform to raise their voices and also help them in creating their own world by interrelating their cyber world with others in the same premises. It has focused on presenting the virtual spaces as power blocks where females can enjoy their hyper freedom to liberate themselves from the constraints of the real world i.e. freedom to share opinions, disclose identities, raise voice etc. in the real world. The data for the study has been obtained from four non-diasporic Pakistani female bloggers. Fairclough’s (1989) discourse as text was applied to explore and investigate the linguistic content of the weblogs to trace the projection of hyper freedom by Pakistani female bloggers. The results reveal that the selection of themes and the use of vocabulary divulge those aspects of the society which are not overtly discussed. Blogging should be acknowledged as a space which enables the Pakistani females exercise hyper-freedom achieved through discursive linguistic means in the domain of social space.