From this unreadable article:
The critic and erstwhile blogger Lee Siegel, in Against the Machine, a polemic against online habits, makes a list of “five open supersecrets” about bloggers:
1. Not everyone has something valuable to say.
2. Few people have anything original to say.
3. Only a handful of people know how to write well.
4. Most people will do almost anything to be liked.
5. “Customers” are always right, but “people” aren’t.
And the rest of us just copy/paste.
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June 7, 2009 at 7:47 am |
Siegel doesn’t get it. put him on the list with Hirsch and Keen and all their ilk who are threatened by the empowered masses.
Siegel’s complaint that these digital persona aren’t “real” is exactly the thing we should be celebrating. these blogs, these social mediums, allow people to experience the multiplicities of self – try things on, work things out, assert agency, define for themselves… all this networking is pretty much the opposite of the fabled technological isolation.
besides, i like hearing what you think about
June 7, 2009 at 5:43 pm |
I’ve read some other great articles on this lately:
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D230774,00.asp
and
http://beatblogging.org/2008/06/25/using-online-comments-in-the-print-edition/
Both sources I used for a paper “The Online Comment: Problems in Anonymity and Negativity” which focused on Blackboard’s use of comments in the opening of threads for writing prompts and revision. It comes from more of a pedagogical standpoint, but it’s just like what Cindy says – “the expanding center”, “mixed discourse”, and “contact heteroglossia”. Why are you reading Siegel?
June 7, 2009 at 7:17 pm |
yes what cindy said
June 8, 2009 at 6:44 am |
i don’t pedagogy in public