As digital forms of self-expression, blogs are at the crossroads of literature and media studies. Their growing popularity attests to the spontaneity, immediacy, and liberty that both writers and audience experience, unlike several other mainstream literary and media outlets, thus offering far-reaching and extensive global cross-cultural communication. Bloggers are offered a Habermasian ‘public sphere' to share not only narrations based on first-hand life experiences, but also personal views and commentaries on contemporary events, with a readership instantly and freely sharing its feedback. Focusing on a heated, post-9/11 milieu, this article ventures to highlight the resistive qualities of blogs and self-narratives created by authors whose productions contribute to the deconstruction of several features of cultural hegemony often propagated within mainstream discourses. It studies the role of the blogosphere as an “emergent alternative culture" attempting to both challenge and deconstruct mainstream stereotypical configurations through digital media's promotion of prod-usage and citizen media culture.