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« Saturday « October 9, 2004
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The Media Sucks, And It's Your Fault
(apophenia blog)
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Danah Boyd: "[N]either mainstream media nor bloggers cover news from less developed regions of the world. So, a research question emerges: in what ways are bloggers expanding the scope of the mainstream media and in what ways are they duplicating it?"Good question, and of course while I don't have a focused answer, I do have a notion, that goes something like this: 1) It seems to me that many people -- not me, though -- blog to get recognition; 2) to gain that recognition, they need to generate attention; 3) to generate attention, they need to blog/post about things that everyone else is talking about. Is that not the essence of a meme -- an idea that spreads like a virus through a large group of like-minded souls, emphasis on large and like-minded? Don't blogs owe a great part of their existence to the creation and spreading of memes? I think the key word in Boyd's quote above is "fantasy." I think most people -- I say most, not all, probably the 80/20 rule applies here -- get into blogging (self-publishing) not to show that their voice is unique but to show that their voice is common. Welcome to the monoculture jungle, we got fun and same! The vast majority of the so-called blogosphere, like everything else in our larger mediasphere, is rather banausic. She's right: the media sucks and it is your fault!
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