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    DYNAMICS OF WEBLOGS AS HETEROTOPIAN SPACES THROUGH DISCOURSE VIRTUAL APPROACH IDENTITY FORMATION OF PAKISTANI FEMALE BLOGGERS
    (UMT, Lahore, 2022) TABASSUM SABA
    Within the domain of the cyber world, this research discusses Weblogs as heterotopias. Heterotopias, in today’s world, are viewed in terms of different spatial fields which formulate alternative spaces or an ‘other’ space and a world that hinges on constant friction between the real and the unreal. As suggested by Foucault (1986), they are of two types – heterotopias of deviation and of crisis. Taking these ideas further, some researches refer to the internet and Facebook as emerging heterotopias (Sherman, 1998; Rymarczuk & Derksen 2014; Hope, 2016). This research interrogates how Pakistani female bloggers construct their own world which is different from their real spatio-geographical location. It also aims to scrutinize how this other world helps the females in (re) constructing their online identity, which may be different from their offline, real identity. The study also investigates how the weblogs offer hyper freedom to Pakistani female bloggers for identity formation through linguistic means