[Air-l] blogs and value

[Marcelo Vieta]

Hi, Tamara, Justine, et al.,

In my recently complete MA thesis, I also discuss the "imagined  
audience" of bloggers from a phenomenological and social interactional  
perspective: I believe this is crucial for understanding the motivation  
of bloggers to publicize their unfolding thoughts, as well as being  
critical for conceptualizing the "meaning" that bloggers give to the  
lived, situated, social, and even political experiences of blogging.   
While I've only got the abstract and table of contents online so far, I  
could send you my thesis in a pdf format if you'd like:  
http://www.sfu.ca/~mavieta/Current_Research/ 
MA_Thesis_Abstract_&_Contents.pdf .  I discuss the "intended audience"  
of bloggers mostly in Chapter 4 but also do so in several other spots  
throughout my thesis.

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Marcelo A. Vieta, BA First Class Honours Communication, MA Communication
PhD Candidate in Social and Political Thought, York University
Research Interests :: The technological predicament and the self

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"The body is our general medium for having a world.
...[O]ur senses question things...and things reply to them."
            ~Merleau-Ponty, _The Phenomenology of Perception_

On 28 Apr 2005, at 00:54, Justine Humphry wrote:

> Hi Tamara,
>
> My own blogging practice and motives are much more akin with yours
> Tamara. I think that one of the advantages of imagining that there
> "might" be a readership but not being entirely concerned if there is
> one or not, can help to formulate your thinking as a process in
> itself. I used to use a technique in journalling where I imagined
> myself writing for someone and had an image in mind of who that person
> was. I think this is one of the playful aspects of blogging and
> writing in general. With blogs this is particularly powerful since it
> blurs the line between imagined community and existing community. The
> idea that it is a solitary and self-reflective exercise and that it
> also published and may interest others and be read by others is not
> mutually exclusive.
>
> Cheers,
> Justine
>
> On 4/28/05, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Along these lines - has anyone worked with diagrammatic tools such as
>> FreeMind or Ted Nelson's ZigZag? I'd really like to hear about their
>> experiences.
>>
>> Thanks, Alan
>>
>> http://www.asondheim.org/ nettext at
>> http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ WVU 2004
>> projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/ partial backup at
>> http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects at
>> http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm Books: Vel  
>> (Blazevox)
>> The Wayward (Vox) Sophia (Writers Forum) .echo (Alt-X)
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