Serfaty outlines a number of ethical considerations encountered researching online diaries. I call these personal blogs. In many cases these writings contain subject matter of an intensely personal nature. But they are published on the Internet and easily located with the use of a search engine. In fact many personal bloggers make their writings even [...]
It is worth mentioning from the outset that Serfaty’s research dates back to 2001 not long after their first emergence as an object of research and analysis. Serfaty’s work is heavily influenced by that of Gusdorf. She makes little attempt to explain the significance of Gusdorf’s work. Serfaty commences the definitions section of her study [...]
Blogs are (usually) ordered in reverse chronological order. It’s something that’s ingrained in the architecture of the Internet. It parallels the human as/with a history with a linear progression from the past to the present. This way of ordering emphasises the present, then the most recent. Older pages that produce ongoing link backs and comments [...]
Why self-writing and the hupomnemata? In the paragraphs ahead I explain how writing is central to the question of personal blogging. I briefly summarise Michel Foucault’s theories of self-writing and propose how they might be used to develop an understanding of self-creation through personal blogging. The central question of my thesis is “What is a [...]
In my last meeting with my PhD supervisors I was asked “are you arguing that a personal blog is the self or a production of the self?” It was evident I was not being clear. My initial reaction was that I was arguing that a personal blog is a production of the self. It is [...]
Commenting on the significance of Rousseau’s Confessions, Gutman (1988, p. 102) states: “…there has indeed been an immense labor to turn man into a subject (an individuated self and a defined personage in the social order) in order to subject him more completely and inescapably to the traversals and furrowings of power.” For Gutman the [...]
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