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The question of blogging...
Jan 26, 07:30 PM · Rose Ruane
Since we learnt how to create the blog on Saturday, I have been thinking anxiously about the whole idea of it ever since. I took the New Media course partly because of my reticence about all things related to the topic; in fact my whole area of research is motivated by a wariness of these modes of self-expression and a sneaking suspicion that perhaps they tap into some ugly or counterproductive pre-existing elements of the human condition. Perhaps it’s the way they seem to tap into our vanities, the propensity to assemble a persona at the expense of expressing a personality in the shape of real social interactions. A shop window to the idealized self we carry furtively at our hearts or the careful and erroneous crafting of that little cinematic narrative starring me, me, me. I think, though, part of what scares me is the seductive qualities of that capacity for immediate self-expression: I look at the constant burble and chatter of the blogosphere and a lot of it, in the words of a wiser man, seems like people throwing their shoes into the clouds to try and change the weather, but I see how attractive it is. I suppose what I mean is, will I, in surrendering my basic resistance to this way of expressing myself, become seduced by it and develop some kind of blogging equivalent of verbal diarrohea, typing and typing reams of inconsequential dullardry to blah, blah, blah its way into the ether like a stick rattling in a bucket? I always thought the idea of ‘Twitter’ was horrible – when i was a child and I was making those sort of irritating vocal repetitions without meaning my parents used to tell me to stop twittering – the connection never seemed erroneous to me. Shit, maybe I’m doing it now, already….
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I agree with what you are saying in part. My, not-very-versed-experience-with-blogs, has typically been that people seem to want some sort of justification of their experience, a validation of sorts. I wonder though, how did people go about feeling this sense of worth that they derive via the perhaps, absent-touch perceived by us of blogging in days before blogging and the like (maybe dating sites fall into this genre)? In many ways I wonder if many people simply slipped through the common awareness of mainstream society or even alternative societies for that matter. Left to facilitate lives that mimic others expectations only, with no way to reach out or connect. Even if it does have an appearance of vapidity. There are blogs/forums (I’m not sure even if these are comparative forms yet…) who’s sole function is to make connections between people which can not happen via the existing available platforms, pubs, etc blar blar blar, for a myriad of reasons, social conformist pressure from family and society being maybe the largest factors. In this way, or rather for this reason, I think there is an immense power embedded within the frame of the blog to connect to a social structure that can operate behind the dominant and defended front structure of a society. I don’t think I’m really interested in people blogging about random acts of bullshit either. But what I do find interesting is what lay in the connective power provided by media when it’s in the hands of individuals performing for a very select audience and their specific needs.
— Paul Knight · Jan 27, 06:35 PM · #
As I read your blog, at once I could remind the article related to some blogs as social syndrome or problems in terms of exaggerations of self expression on the web uers. ....It may be a sily story and some guys will not be able to understand what I mean because of my shortages.
I just want to take an example in South Korea, (sorry..I have no idea about other countries yet)where is one of the m ost developed area in the Internet and mobile culture. More people have their own mini -homepages as a blog (facebook or myspace are not very famous in S. Korea, due to some their sensitive personality and autonomous web services) because they are keen to tiny and cute things like accessoris or jewelies -regardless of gender. Anyway through the mini-homepages, some gold Miss. and Mrs. want to show their strange desires and needs to audience on the web, as to the beauty and property which are utilised in its sections of photos and videos as an electronic diary , where are full of pictures relating to expensive italy or french restautants’ glittering foods and their boys like hilton’s pets…we call thoes girls “Dawn-jang-nyo” which meam thoes women who strongly want to be regarded as the luxuary or the upper-middle class images including higher social and economical status…how about mens’ blog lives?? yes, Also some mens’ mental situation are very simliar to thoes who want to get attention from other blogers and public. Commonly, they have tried to make issues on the Internet using the lattest digital gadgets..Nevertheless, fortunately Almost people are trying to be normal and not mental in virtual world. How can I distinguish mental people from normal ones? ....yes,I can….just do look at their Avatars…hahaha..I beileve that it contains their style, thinking way, etc..as their real socks, colour.
/Even if I have some mistakes, plz enjoy reading that…0(^_^)0…/
— Manki & Monkey Park · Jan 28, 01:45 AM · #