Hi Peter!

Thanks for reposting Cynthia’s links to the online academic research explanation pages – they’re going to be extremely useful for the assignments, especially the concept one

I quite enjoyed reading your thesis too…especially the theory that your blog reflects your life and is a work of art. I know that’s not the gist of your thesis, but it’s the one idea that stood out most clearly from when I read it last week.

It seems very unjust that someone was fired for a personal diary-type text that was done in their own time!
Especially since, as you reported (haven’t checked her actual blog yet), she didn’t ‘name’ any person or even her workplace!

I suppose she did write it all in a publicly viewable place – perhaps she should have written it the old fashioned (more private)way and used a book (!).

You also mentioned however, that she possibly wrote her thoughts publicly as an attempt to gain some semblance of control in her life – which had a lot of external control remnants from her religious past and current work.

It was her form of creativity and freedom in an otherwise predictable and restricted world.

Will re-read your thesis again in a few days and clarify what I just wrote – thanks again for posting your thesis for us to read

PS and I hope it’s ok that I commented here

Thanks for the link (another thing I’ll have to learn how to do!) – I read it and momentarily got glimpses of what it was about, but will probably have to print it to get the full meaning…you see, my affliction for paper definitely has its own limiters…but wow, there’s a whole lot more to what is actually visible isn’t there?
Will also have to decide which, if any, concepts these refer to!
I would never have thought of the publication of internet/terrorism (already flailing from having read something ‘online’) as deflecting from the inadequacies of a government.
A really interesting link – thanks again