Blogging and emergent editorial forces
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Big neo-con claims about blogging and degradation of society:
The Fast-Food nation has a culture whose mantra is instant gratification. You can easily buy, eat watch anything, anytime. Similarly the blog has given anyone the power to easily publish anything, anytime. As the former trivialises shopping and food, the latter degrades the quality of content. It is no longer edited, it is published as soon as it is written.
The point that is missed is that blogging has also given anyone the power to read, assess, discard, and when necessary comment (or trackback). The effect being that editorial power becomes distributed out to the reader themselves. Value emerges from the activities of many individuals in bringing blog entries to the surface. As such textual production, cultural production, is no longer controlled at a single editorial point, but is released to persue unpredictable and non-deterministic channels.
You can of course do with this entry as you please.
Robert O'Toole
17 May 2004 21:07
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I love it when a plan works. I choose a random point of view that's not mine, argue it and people actually take it seriously.
17 May 2004, 21:21
Just realized that you are one of the makers of this blog software. Well thank you sincerely for bringing this great innovation to Warwick finally.
And sorry if I offended anyone, I was just trying to make the discussion started by Hugh Denard a little interesting.
17 May 2004, 21:25
Robert O'Toole
It's a very interesting discussion. Thank for provoking it. Samuel, what subject do you study? I'm interested in how this distributed and emergent kind of discourse might work in different disciplines.
18 May 2004, 09:43
Computer and Management Sciences, 2nd year. That means as we speak I get to decide once again whether I want to continue with CS or transfer to the Business School…
18 May 2004, 16:32
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