Lecture #5 Jan 23rd
Reading: Blogging as social activity
The last sentence in this reading stated “Bloggers arnt letting 900 million people read their diary, but they are letting standing before 900 million, sometimes in an attitude of indifference, sometimes with the hope of reaching out to new people in the ever-expanding blogoshpere. I found this article and this last line interesting as it outlines how many different ways in which a blog is used. A blog can very well be used in a form of a diary, and some blog entries are specifically that. Blogs are also used for updating people on events and activities that are going on in ones lifes, they are used as a way of influencing others. By writing your opinions and ideas into a blog, when others read that blog your ideas are being passed onto them. A blog can also be used in order to gain others opinions and feedback on a topic. Some blogs are used as a way of stress release. by writing about emotional times, it can be away of letting go of these emotions. Blogs are also used commonly by scholars as a way of working through their ideas by writing them out and processing through them in that way. Before this course i didnt know anything about blogging. I now know that blogging can be personal, impersonal, spiritual,educational, social, commercial etc. Blogging is an increasingly popular pasttime with huge potential.
This is an entry that i added about our group discussion, i wondered where it had gone and now i just found it on the group blog,opps.anyway il just add it on the end here.
At the end of the lecture when we stayed behind and did group work instead of going down to the computers, our group discussed our views on being a free agent. We all seemed to agree that in most situations everyone is a free agent because if there is a choice then this equates to free agency. We also agreed that different situations changed the degree of free agency that we have. For example, everyone has the choice to simply cross the road, therefore we are free agents in that situation. But if we change the situation slightly to say crossing the road carrying a wod of money, not everyone is now a free agent, as not everyone has access to a wod of money to cross the road with. Writing this down now our examples seem really silly but we used them simply to illustrate that in most situations we are free agents, but not always. We also discussed how there are different degree’s of being a free agent.
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I never knew about blogging before this course too! its so popular sometimes I’m embarassed by the fact that I never knew about it and i’m an IT major…After doing this course and getting more familiar with blogging, thanks to web2.0 we are now able to express our individuality through the net with the possibilites of millions of viewers.do you think you’ll join in the crowd or do you prefer F2F?
Like you i am also embarrassed at my lack of knowledge on blogging and other such internet tools. I dont think that i would use a blog as a diary, but i would definately keep blogging in mind for any future work i may need feedback on, such as if i were to persue Honours, i could see it being a great place to write down my ideas. (mary talked int the lecture about how increased amounts of students are using blogging as a way to record their ideas as they go.)
Really though i think that i would prefer F2F, but the internet is always great for those times when you just dont feel like F2F talks. And what a great opportunity the internet offers for those people who are shy and dont like F2F interactions,but would prefer to interact with others from the comfort of their own homes. It must be such a relief to them to know that there are alternative ways of interactiong with others without having to put themselves out there. When they may have once used to just sit at home and watch t.v, they can now thanks to the internet spend their nights being social online. What a break through for them huh…
I ‘v heard of blogging before, but I just never took the time to actually listen and learn what it is actually about! I have now just found out that my mum occassionally blogs! That makes me feel pretty bad. Its good to know others are in the same boat though!