It’s fascinating to see that Ellen Simonetti appears to be going through something of an identity crisis. She’s changed the name of her blog to Diary of a Human Being. I find it interesting because it plays to much of what I’m reading in Technologies of the Self. I note that she claims to be [...]
Struggle and resistance – the self-expression of a free subject – are inevitable wherever and whenever power is exercised (Smart, 1985). In the context of blogging this concept is important to keep in mind. In the case of Heather B. Armstrong, the struggle began before she was fired whereby she attempted to obfuscate the identities [...]
The first hand account of Ellen Simonetti who was fired for posting “inappropriate” photos on her blog. Simonetti claims to have filed a sex discrimination claim with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Delta Airlines, and despite her best attempts, being unable to find a specific Delta Airlines policy in relation to posting photos [...]






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