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: -> the article was ''misunderstood'' by the blogging community because of unfortunate editorial decisions in the text (bloggers surviving the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_com_bubble dot-com bubble] ~ cockroaches surviving a nuclear holocaust) | : -> the article was ''misunderstood'' by the blogging community because of unfortunate editorial decisions in the text (bloggers surviving the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_com_bubble dot-com bubble] ~ cockroaches surviving a nuclear holocaust) | ||
:: Also, the subtitle (chosen by the same editor) of the interview is characteristic: ''Online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot coms.'' | |||
* ''Bloggers are the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutemen minutemen] of the digital revolution'' | * ''Bloggers are the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutemen minutemen] of the digital revolution'' | ||
Revision as of 18:09, 6 November 2010
notes on Henry Jenkins' Fans, Bloggers and Gamers 2006
- First appearance of Blog This! in Technology Review, feb. 2001
- -> just before blogging became recognized as a significant journalistic practice ("grassroots intermediaries")
- -> the article was misunderstood by the blogging community because of unfortunate editorial decisions in the text (bloggers surviving the dot-com bubble ~ cockroaches surviving a nuclear holocaust)
- Also, the subtitle (chosen by the same editor) of the interview is characteristic: Online diarists rule an Internet strewn with failed dot coms.
- Bloggers are the minutemen of the digital revolution
- Blogs are more:
- - dynamic than older-style homepages
- - permanent than discussion posts
- - private/permanent than traditional journalism
- - public than diaries
- Blog as a tool for carrying out spiritual, political and social messages.
- huge dot-com failure vs blogging success -> using the temporary commercialization stillness to increase cultural diversity and participation
- Corporatisation of media: threat to democracy concerning freedom of speech, loss of shared values and culture.
- -> consumer-society -> blurred 'uniformity' of messages/information
- -> 'clever' blogging as a platform to offer more diversity in perspectives and guidance in informational differentiation.
- Blogging as an evolution towards online Digital Renaissance: grassroots intermediaries that make extensive elaboration on different subjects possible by having loose network structures that offer space for diverse interpretation, criticism, ... -> participatory measuring table for significance of messages
- <-> (linear) corporate media concentration: totalitarian one-to-many communication of messages -> authorized significance by broadcasting
- In practice, the evolution of most media has been shaped through the interactions between the distributed power of grassroots participatory media and the concentrated power of corporate/governmental media.